Articles tagged with "falls from height"

Sadly, falls from height are so common in the building trade that we will probably be reporting on them for as long as we write these articles. However, with the right application and training...

When we hear about health and safety cases that come to the courts, they have inevitably done so after quite a delay, sometimes years. However, there has been a worrying clutch of cases recentl...

Whenever there is a construction safety court case, attention is thrown on the contractors concerned, and whether they obeyed the letter of the law precisely. If they did not, then regardless o...

One of the best ways of assessing the mood of people in an industry these days is to visit their sector-specific online forums and see what the ‘hot buttons’ are.

One such example can...

Of the many cases that we record that involve official action being taken against contractors, this is an unusual one. A centuries-old building material is partly blamed for a new prosecution...