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Dangerous Emissions campaign targets builders
The HSE has announced a campaign to focus on, and seek to reduce, exposures in the workplace to dangerous gases, dusts, chemicals and other emissions. Inevitably, the issue probably most in...
Ruptured gas pipe causes public evacuation
Private sector clients and principal contractors are often brought before the courts by the HSE for their failures to abide by construction health and safety regulations. It is less common to...
Death at Luxury Flats construction
A very high profile construction safety incident has claimed the life of one site worker and injured another. Given that it has thrust building health and safety into the spotlight of media...
Roofing contractor ignores own risk assessment
We have to write far too often about contractors that do not prepare risk assessments or write method statements. This is clearly culpable behaviour: yet here we have an almost equally bad case...
Improper mobile phone use causes building site injury
In these pages we are accustomed to reporting on cases where employers are culpable of construction health & safety infringements of the law. Here is a (thankfully) rare case that shows that...