Articles tagged with "health and safety"
Asbestos danger is ignored at builders’ peril
The deadly legacy of decades of using asbestos in construction will be with us for a long time to come. It is rightly a hot topic with Health & Safety inspectors, both from the HSE and Local...
Asbestos Safety Survey reveals lack of Awareness
The arrival of the new Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012, which came into force this month, highlights the need for widespread...
Innocent bystander injured by falling plant while waiting for a bus.
A member of the public was waiting for a bus when she was struck by falling machinery that was in the process of being moved by crane, in a severe lapse of construction safety...
CDM Failure causes concrete collapse at University
A leading construction firm was lucky to escape more serious consequences when 7 workers fell due to a scaffolding collapse which released over 250 tonnes of wet concrete during the constructio...
Contractor Fined after Guarding Failure Causes Accident
The need for proper machine guarding has been thrown into stark relief by an incident that has just come to Court. In it, a building contractor was fined due to a bad injury to a sub-contracted...