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Unsafe ladder use causes damaging fall

This is an incident that happened in isolation, during an electrical installation with no other building work: but it carries with it lessons for construction safety. Principal contractors...

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HSE focuses on construction health issues

When reviewing the prodigious output from HSE’s publicity department, it is easy to think that the organisation focuses mostly upon the high-profile cases of death and injury at work caused b...

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Flawed Method Statement leads to serious injury

Here is an example of how the construction Health & Safety guidelines and procedures can all be applied according to the letter of the law; but if the content of the chosen method of working is...

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Worker falls when working on cinema staircase

This incident drives home the need for edge protection to be in place at all times to protect workers on building sites against falls from height. It took place at a new Odeon cinema complex in...

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