Articles tagged with "hse"
Risk assessment ignored: worker falls from roof
This is one of those frustrating building safety cases where the right specification was set out for the work but this was then ignored in practice. A man was injured due to a fall from height...
New HSE chief has engineering background
The Health & Safety Executive has named its new appointee as Chief Executive, Dr. Richard Judge. His role takes effect from November 2014. He replaces Kevin Myers, wh...
Failure to renovate building nearly kills resident
We often in these columns highlight cases where contractors have failed to abide by accepted building health and safety norms: on rarer occasions we have to report on cases where the client is...
Continued unsafe roof working is punished
When a client firm decides to be its own principal contractor on a building project, then it is increasing the risk that something will go wrong – it is highly unlikely that the company will...
Death of telehandler driver at huge contractor firm
In a building site, it can be the case that even sophisticated equipment that formerly seemed perfectly suited for its purpose becomes suddenly inappropriate and even dangerous. This is such a...