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Jail term for supplying asbestos sheets that led to a death
Because asbestos as a new building material has been banned since the beginning of the 1980s, we are normally concerned with handling existing installations, in building safety terms. Here is a...
Long term silica dust exposure harms stonemason
As we have reported, the HSE has begun a drive to publicise the dangers of dust exposure in the workplace, and the construction sector is high on their target list in this respect. Whereas thei...
Roofer caught out doing unsafe painting at height
This is one of the more ludicrous building health & safety infringements that we have had to report upon – and was caught on film by an environmental health council worker, tipped off by a...
Unsafe basement work leads to crippling injury
As we have sadly been forced to report on in the past, there are more ways than one to be ‘working at height’ – and those include the cases where people have to operate over underground...
Developer’s error causes huge gas leak and rail chaos
It is not that uncommon for building safety issues to cause road closures, either planned or unplanned: but it is thankfully quite rare for a construction site to create problems that cripple a...