Articles tagged with "health and safety"
The HSE versus Insurers?
It is apparent to anyone who spends any time reading the news stories circulated by the publicity people of HSE that they are riled about negative media reports on the subject of Health & Safet...
The biggest issues in construction safety
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...
HSE Working at height clampdown for Scotland – will you be next?
In August, we learned of a blitz that was being conducted by HSE Inspectors across the Midlands in England. Now in September it is the turn of construction safety in Scotland to fall under thei...
Too Hot to Work?
It may not have been too much of a concern given the British weather for the last few months, but with the the recent hot weather (which is typically disappearing as I write),...
Public blow the whistle on unsafe contractors
In these columns we often report on construction safety problem cases where a Health and Safety Executive Inspector visits a site and uncovers wrongdoing. This case is more unusual in that a...