Articles tagged with "working at height"
Untrained worker falls from scaffolding
It is essential to good building safety practice that workers are trained before carrying out any work, and that the proper precautions are observed. In this sad case, neither of these...
Unsafe ladder use causes damaging fall
This is an incident that happened in isolation, during an electrical installation with no other building work: but it carries with it lessons for construction safety. Principal contractors...
Worker falls when working on cinema staircase
This incident drives home the need for edge protection to be in place at all times to protect workers on building sites against falls from height. It took place at a new Odeon cinema complex in...
Roofer caught out doing unsafe painting at height
This is one of the more ludicrous building health & safety infringements that we have had to report upon – and was caught on film by an environmental health council worker, tipped off by a...
Unsafe basement work leads to crippling injury
As we have sadly been forced to report on in the past, there are more ways than one to be ‘working at height’ – and those include the cases where people have to operate over underground...