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Much anticipated CDM 2015 guidance is issued
Cometh the New Year, cometh the new CDM Regulations. They will hit us in the new Tax Year to be precise, maybe to suit the HSE accountants, but guidance has just been issued to outline what the...
Site protects the public but fails to protect the workers
Any operating site, construction or otherwise, has a double health and safety obligation: to protect and segregate the public from the operation: and to safeguard its workers. Here is a case...
New worker dies after inadequate dumper truck training
Whenever workers are required to operate dangerous machinery such as trucks, they must be properly trained by people certified to do so. In this case a young worker had literally just begun wor...
Lone building worker dies from fall in boiler house
As we often have cause to remind our construction safety specialist readers, falls from height are the most common cause of death at work in the building trades. In this case it was a...
Workers receive lead poisoning in refurbishment project
During 2014 we have reported frequently on refurbishment sites that have fallen foul of the asbestos safety regulations, and warned of the dangers of this deadly material.
Less often,...