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Keep up to dateA creative use of a tree shows how scaffolding shouldn’t be done
Thanks to Philip Roach for these photos of an inventive attempt at scaffolding in Wallington, Surrey. “At least they put in a double handrail,” he says. “Not so sure about nailing everything to the tree, though!”
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
William Burkitt of Stiles Harold Williams Partnership sent this picture of a man who has obviously decided that one ladder is not enough
“Not only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,” notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
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