All Health & safety articles – Page 51
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Five workers killed in Colorado plant fire
Five found dead after a fire at a hydro-electric plant near Georgetown, four manage to escape
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NewsTake the load off ...
When work on site gets too much why not build yourself an arm chair out of bricks and put your feet up?
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NewsI wouldn't bank on it ...
... And to think the literal translation of this financial institution's name is "safe bank"
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Scaffold collapse injures seven at Wates site
Work on £15.8m Liverpool John Moores University arts building halted after workers fall 30ft
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NewsSixty feared dead in Vietnam bridge collapse
Up to 60 construction workers are feared dead and 100 others are missing after a bridge collapsed in southern Vietnam on Wednesday morning.
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Ucatt accuses 16 of payment abuse
Construction union Ucatt has sent a dossier to the government exposing the illegal treatment of agency workers on sites run by some of the industry’s biggest contractors.
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Death toll rises in Vietnam bridge collapse
Up to sixty-four people are now thought to have died after eight more bodies are discovered
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NewsSuspension of disbelief
It's either a miracle of mechanics and balance, or something incredibly daft - ten storeys up and not so much as an octopus strap holding this lot together.
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Bridge collapse in Vietnam kills 60 workers
A bridge under constrution in southern Vietnam has collapsed killing at least 60 workers
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NewsSafety forum meets as HSE plans spring offensive
Peter Hain chairs summit on site deaths as watchdog warns of blitz in new year
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NewsScaffold collapse in Liverpool injures seven
The accident happened yesterday on a building site in the Brownlow Hill area of Liverpool city centre
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NewsPlease take care of this painter
A scaffold caught without guard rails or a protective barrier at Paddington station
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NewsHain announces action plan on construction deaths
The Framework For Action will tackle training and worker issues to improve safety on site
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NewsAt least first aid is just next door
Have the BBC decided to remake 'The Plank' and not told us?
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One-third of refurbishment sites endanger lives of workers
Nearly one in three refurbishment sites seriously endangers workers’ lives, the Health and Safety Executive has claimed.
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Construction workers spread foot and mouth, says HSE
Construction workers may have been responsible for spreading foot-and-mouth disease from a research institute in Surrey in July, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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Hain: ‘We cannot pay for building boom with blood of workers’
Peter Hain said he would not accept a boom in building at the cost of “the blood of construction workers” in an impassioned speech to the TUC in Brighton.
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Hutton angers unions by rejecting Gangmasters Bill
Delegates ‘baffled’ as business secretary claims CDM regulations can deal with worker abuse
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Animals slaughtered in new foot and mouth outbreak
New contamination is thought to be linked to first outbreak which was spread by construction vehicle movements