All Health & safety articles – Page 42
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Industry professionals fear illegal gangmasters are rife
More than three-quarters of construction professionals believe illegal gangmaster activity has increased in the past three years, according to a survey.
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HSE boosts its ranks with 40 new inspectors
Construction division to get 10 recruits after DWP agrees spending settlement until 2011
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NewsHSE boosts its ranks with 40 new inspectors
Construction division to get 10 recruits after DWP agrees spending settlement until 2011
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Tower crane safety guide launched
Construction Products Association guide aims to standardise safety procedures on crane use
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NewsMessage in a bottle
To be fair these workers are harnessed, it's just a shame the ladder isn't quite long enough
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NewsManchester council claims back £280k for fixing problem sculpture
Council says that controversial Heatherwick sculpture, B of the Bang, cost hundreds of thousands in remediation work
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NewsExecution without trial for Jarvis
The Potters Bar derailment may well have signed Jarvis’ death warrant, but guilt was never proven – is that fair?
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NewsHow did he get up there?
This Maltese builder appears to be balanced on one end of a pulley, the other end weighed down by stone blocks over a four-storey wall
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Contractors fined £200k for worker death
Court fines two firms and two individuals afer fatal fall in Nottinghamshire
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Sunderland building firm fined £10k for employee fall
Court fines Murray Construction and Development after worker falls 2.8m onto concrete floor
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NewsViews to die for
Working in the Himalayas has its risks when you are just one step away from a 80ft drop...
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Roofing boss jailed after teenage employee's fatal fall
North Eastern Roofing owner imprisoned for 10 months after admitting manslaughter in relation to site accident
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NewsHead above the parapet
Maintaining your parapet gutters really shouldn't be a matter of life and death...
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NewsAre you sitting comfortably?
Then we shall begin welding 12m up while wearing no eye protection or footwear...
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NewsFirm fined £10k after worker left blind in one eye
HSE warns employers to maintain machinery after grinding disc shatters and injures worker
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NewsPole dancing
This scaffolder appears to be balancing on a pole that doesn't reach the ground and with no safety harness, is that wise?
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NewsStrategic Forum wants public information register for tower cranes
Safety group echoes MPs in support of Building’s Safer Skyline proposal
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NewsIndustry marks International Workers Memorial Day
Sixty-nine black baloons released to commerorate construction workers killed in 2007/8