Articles tagged with "construction safety"
HSE campaign targets deadly asbestos
In the construction safety sector, we are well aware of HSE campaigns to alert us to the dangers of working with asbestos when refurbishing or demolishing buildings.
These often take...
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...
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...
Unsafe temporary handrail causes fall injury at housebuilder’s site
As work progresses on a site, temporary construction safety measures have to be put in place and altered or replaced as required – it is an iterative process that requires ongoing scrutiny...
Construction Safety under the spotlight – at the Games
In normal times, building safety is a specific sub-sector of the health & safety scene, though a fairly high profile one due to its relatively high incidence of accidents (albeit less than in...