Articles tagged with "hse inspectors "
Roofing contractor ignores own risk assessment
We have to write far too often about contractors that do not prepare risk assessments or write method statements. This is clearly culpable behaviour: yet here we have an almost equally bad case...
Concrete collapse injures 3 on building site
This is a (thankfully) unusual case where an alteration had to be made to correct an error in the construction of a house, which resulted in a collapse due to poor planning and a lack of...
Incomplete building safety systems put roofing company in court
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....
Three roofers seen using no safety protection
Even on a 2-storey domestic building, the height of the roof and the pitch of it are enough to make this a very dangerous place on which to work. Building health and safety regulations are very...
Unprotected scaffolding causes accident
This is an example of what happens in the dynamic, ever-changing situation on a building site, where circumstances change to make a previously safe set-up dangerous because people in charge do...