Articles tagged with "falls from height"

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...

In recent years, the Government schemes that have incentivised alternative energy generation have had a dramatic effect upon the building trade, most notably through the huge uplift in solar...

In this construction safety case, HSE inspectors had visited the site and were so unhappy with aspects of its safety management that they served an Improvement Notice on the principal...

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...

When you carry out the required risk assessments and method statements of today’s building safety scene, you must do more than tick the boxes or be satisfied with having written the words....