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Scaffolder died from unprotected fall from height
This is a particularly nasty case, involving the death of a worker and the negligence and non-cooperation of his boss who had already been jailed for the murder of his brother.
Mark...
FFI: Fit for Purpose?
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) brought in the highly controversial Fees for Intervention in October 2012. There has been a lot...
Fake Trial to be staged by HSE for building safety professionals
In these columns we often report upon the court cases that are brought by the Health & Safety Executive: and building safety professionals and contractors alike have good reason to fear having...
CDM Coordinators to be axed
It would be remiss of us to avoid covering the very important construction safety legislation issues that are currently being debated and are about to be subject to significant change.
...Risk assessment ignored: worker falls from roof
This is one of those frustrating building safety cases where the right specification was set out for the work but this was then ignored in practice. A man was injured due to a fall from height...