All Health & safety articles – Page 21
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NewsRok fined £20,000 after Heathrow accident
Contractor failed to implement control procedures after worker fell from bridge
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NewsPolice appeal for help to find kidnapped builder
Lancashire police have asked for public assitance to trace man snatched from housing development site
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NewsBrugge health and safety!
These Belgians seem worryingly offhand about safety, balanced atop a roof with no apparent security – and one's on the phone…
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NewsTwo firms fined after teenage worker's accident
Scottish contractors to pay out £9,000 after 19-year-old labourer fell nearly 10m through factory roof
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NewsRebarkable
Ten storeys up, these operatives are taking a relaxed approach to fixing rebar for a column in a building under construction
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NewsTen workers killed on 2010 games sites in Delhi
Rush to meet Commonwealth Games deadlines blamed for injuries and deaths across city
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NewsRiding high
Somebody's horsing about up there – members of the public passing below could find this ladder most unlucky to walk under
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NewsBats in the belfry
Malbork castle in Poland was getting a facelift when Piers Michell spotted these workman perched precariously on the roof. Let’s hope their recklessness doesn’t come home to roost
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NewsNew supervisor training standard announced
UK Contractors Group says rules will tighten up health and safety performance
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NewsA degree of insanity
Or rather forty-five degrees, as that's the angle of the ledge this painter is standing on, with no other security
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NewsAberdeen worker killed in site accident named
Sixty-three-year-old Malcolm Doughty fell as scaffolding on block of flats collapsed at 8am yesterday
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NewsUcatt raises concerns after death on site with 'poor safety history'
Union to call on HSE to confirm that required safety improvements had been made after site was mothballed
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NewsDon't break a nail, guys
Putting your hands in your pockets is less effective than a harness at preventing falls but it will save you breaking a fingernail if you do chance to tumble
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NewsWorkman dies in Aberdeen scaffold collapse
Police investigating after 63-year-old killed during flat renovation
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NewsTime for a little lie-down
After climbing two stepladders – one placed on a sloping roof – and struggling up onto the guttering, it's no wonder he's weary
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NewsWorker airlifted after Staythorpe accident
Health and Safety Executive are investigating after worker's legs were crushed by falling pipe
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NewsString 'em up, say the French
Presumably this is the approved method of working at height in France – either that or an attempt at 'extreme swinging'
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NewsA Spanish safety holiday
These guys repairing a villa in Spain take a relaxed approach to their make-shift scaffolding