All Health & safety articles – Page 20
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NewsAcoustic testing for schools to be compulsory
Deaf charity welcomes government plan to require testing for new schools built under Building Schools for the Future
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NewsThe nesting instinct
Charles Bosher spotted this creative contraption somewhere west of Reading
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NewsRed for danger
Or: how not to paint a drainpipe scarlet when balanced four storeys up between a gutter and a scaffold
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NewsBuilders merchant fined after worker nails hand to pallet
Pallet-making machine started without warning but accident could have been prevented
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NewsCIOB: tower crane register is pointless
Chartered Institute of Building calls for safety rules to be developed within existing regulatroy framework
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NewsJohn Doyle fined for worker falling from scaffolding
Contractor pleads guilty after worker falls six meters on Liverpool One development
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NewsNew schools lack sprinkler systems
BBC research shows 43% of BSF projects in England are not fitted with fire safety sprinklers
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NewsThe props department
Another bizarre example of on-site improvisation, this time courtesy of SJ Taylor, who snapped it when on holiday on the island of Gozo, near Malta
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NewsTwo firms fined for exposing workers to asbestos
Noble Gift Packaging and A&T Roofing plead guilty to breaches leading to workers and public being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres
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NewsCarillion (AMBS) fined £40,000 for cleaner's injury
Man fell between a gap and suffered a broken femur, 11 broken ribs, a bruised lung and two cuts to his head
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NewsOne man, eight ladders
Adam Meacham, health and safety adviser for Sir Robert McAlpine, has been taking his work outside the office – which is why we have this photo of a brilliantly improvised cladding in Portsmouth …
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NewsRoofing firm fined £6k over worker fall
Lancashire-based Webber Trading found guilty of health and safety breaches after worker suffered serious injury
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NewsHundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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NewsWithout the aid of a net
Our thanks to John Tarling for this one, taken from his office window in Southampton. Who needs safety equipment when you have the courage of a lion and the wisdom of a sardine?
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NewsKent plant hire firm fined £100k for crane collapse
Accident involving Select Plant Hire equipment caused injury and damage and loss of business of £4.8m
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NewsCampaign group denies asbestos advert 'exaggerated' danger
International Ban Asbestos Secretariat claims banned HSE advert 'if anything underestimated' number of deaths caused by asbestos exposure