Articles tagged with "demolition"

Demolishing a building might look a lot easier than putting one up. But this dangerous assumption by one contractor put lives at risk and has now landed him with a suspended jail sentence.

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In the current building market, where renovation and rebuilding are more vibrant sectors than outright new builds, it is critical for worker safety that the inevitable demolition of old...

As anyone involved in building safety must know, jobs of any reasonably large scale must be notified to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). But as we safety consultants are only too aware, man...

As any inspector from HSE will confirm, it is difficult enough trying to police the work of trained principal contractors and subcontractors in building safety terms, but when someone tries to...

We often have to report on cases where working at height has been carried out without a proper risk assessment or safe system of working. The difference in this case is that although a proper...