Articles tagged with "risk assessment"

Private sector clients and principal contractors are often brought before the courts by the HSE for their failures to abide by construction health and safety regulations. It is less common to...

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...

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....

Normally we find ourselves reporting on cases where the HSE has taken independent principal contractors to task, and ultimately to court, for breaching the construction safety regulations. Even...

Sadly, falls from height are so common in the building trade that we will probably be reporting on them for as long as we write these articles. However, with the right application and training...