Articles tagged with "principal contractor"

We often have to report on cases where working at height has been carried out without a proper risk assessment or safe system of working. The difference in this case is that although a proper...

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...

In these pages we are accustomed to reporting on cases where employers are culpable of construction health & safety infringements of the law. Here is a (thankfully) rare case that shows that...

In this construction safety case, HSE inspectors had visited the site and were so unhappy with aspects of its safety management that they served an Improvement Notice on the principal...

One of the key issues for any building safety expert is to ensure that existing services on site have been recorded and mapped, and that workers are made aware of them in detail. This case...