Articles tagged with "scaffolding"

Building health and safety is often the subject of court actions and may reach the columns of the local and occasionally national press, but it is rare for an infringement to be featured on...

In the Summer of last year, the NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) published a booklet entitled ‘Guide to Appointing and Managing Scaffolding Contractors’. The free document...

In these columns we frequently report individual failings and misdemeanours on the part of building firms. However this recent court case is exceptional in that it results from not one, but no...

A leading construction firm was lucky to escape more serious consequences when 7 workers fell due to a scaffolding collapse which released over 250 tonnes of wet concrete during the constructio...