All Health & safety articles – Page 2
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FeaturesFire risk: are we asking the right questions?
Fire prevention in commercial buildings is crucial, but what is the most effective way to ensure risks are minimised? Experts at a round table discussion debated the question
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CommentBetter fire safety can't wait for rule change
Regulations need to be simplified, but the industry needn’t wait for policy-makers to address fire safety
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NewsPM strips Grenfell management firm of estate responsibility
Tenant management organisation awarded Rydon the Grenfell refurbishment contract in 2014
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NewsGrenfell inquiry to examine tower's design and construction
Prime Minister accepted all ‘terms of reference’ recommendations of inquiry lead, Sir Martin Moore-Bick
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NewsFire safety failings shut hospital trauma unit
Patients to move out for 12 months while flammable cladding is replaced
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NewsConstruction safety fines jump 83% in a year
New sentencing guidelines cause big spike in safety and corporate manslaughter pay-outs
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NewsEx chief construction advisor heads post-Grenfell civils review
ICE-appointed Peter Hansford’s review will be separate from the DCLG’s industry response group
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Archive TitlesCladding safety checks could increase fire risk, DCLG warns
Concern about other material left exposed after cladding panels’ removal
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Archive Titles'Significant' industry response needed post-Grenfell, says Crossrail boss
Construction response group to address challenge of building safety
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NewsTally of tower blocks failing fire tests rises to 224
Communities secretary Sajid Javid planning further testing for cladding
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NewsThree hospitals fails fire safety checks
Combustible cladding found at King’s College, North Middlesex and Sheffield Children’s Hospitals
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NewsCrewe crane collapse kills two
Two die and one man is airlilfted to hospital in incident at Seddon building site
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NewsHSE 'lost £6m' on safety fines scheme last year
Exclusive: Research from law firm Clyde Co suggests fees for intervention scheme is loss-making
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NewsInvestigation after Crossrail worker cuts live cable
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
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NewsMajor contractors to be prosecuted over Crossrail death
The three contractors face charges over the death of a worker and two other incidents
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NewsQuintain becomes latest client to join CCS
Wembley Park developer is 51st client to sign up Considerate Constructors Scheme
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NewsBody found at Didcot power station six months after collapse
The boiler house at Didcot Power Station collapsed on 23 February
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NewsContractor replaced on Didcot collapse search
Coleman and Company replaced on ongoing search for three missing men
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FeaturesBattersea crane tragedy: After the fall
Ten years after the Battersea crane tragedy, Joey Gardiner talks to the mother of one of the two men killed in the accident and asks if tower cranes are any safer now than they were a decade ago