Articles tagged with "safety consultants"
Suspended jail term for ‘DIY gas work’ landlord
All too often we have to report on cases where general builders have carried out work that can only legally be done by Gas Safe registered engineers: and sometimes people pretend to hold the...
Failure to use licensed asbestos contractors
This incident shows that no-one can take the chance of illegally using general building contractors to strip away the uniquely hazardous material that is asbestos. The regulations are there for...
Building safety issues at ‘serial offender’ principal contractor
It is bad enough when you get one unannounced site visit from inspectors of the Health & Safety Executive – but when your contracting firm is used to it and has become a multiple offender,...
HSE focuses on construction health issues
When reviewing the prodigious output from HSE’s publicity department, it is easy to think that the organisation focuses mostly upon the high-profile cases of death and injury at work caused b...
Unsafe temporary handrail causes fall injury at housebuilder’s site
As work progresses on a site, temporary construction safety measures have to be put in place and altered or replaced as required – it is an iterative process that requires ongoing scrutiny...