All Health & safety articles – Page 58
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NewsSpiked railings will break their fall
You wouldn't believe it but two men took three days to erect this unstable platform
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NewsMilanese fashion statement
These stylish workers are wearing harnesses but they are just for show as they are not attached to anything
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NewsHealth and Safety Awards 2007 announced
White Young Green, Buro Happold and Miller Homes head up shortlist
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NewsGormley goes to Preston
It looks like one of Antony Gormley's rooftop sculptures has caught the train to Lancashire
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NewsTimber frame body appoints fire safety expert
UK Timber Frame Association appointment seeks to reassure construction industry following Colindale fire
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NewsCDM webinar: Your questions answered
Scott Brownrigg’s Peter Caplehorn answers questions on the CDM regulations arising from Building’s recent online seminar
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HSC chair commends industry's collaborative working
Access industry forum praised for bringing together expertise
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CSCS in row with CITB over smartcard plan
CITB–ConstructionSkills and CSCS are in a contractual stand-off over the introduction of smart card technology to the industry’s skills card scheme.
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NewsA leap of cat-like faith
A first glance, an outrageous flouting of Work at Height regs, but could this worker be a sportsman practicing a new urban sport?
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NewsWith very little help from his friends
Thanks to Aidan Lucas of Bovis Lend Lease for this picture from Hong Kong.
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NewsHSC/HSE merger moves a step closer
Single body plans to go to Parliament after second consultation with Minister for Health and Safety
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NewsHSE admits crane reports may have been inaccurate
Battersea crane firm complains that inspectors who checked fleet were ‘not all specialists’
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NewsA new Olympic event?
If 'Throwing construction waste onto the street' became a new Olympic discipline this builder could take the gold medal
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NewsLogic defying window cleaners at work
Fact: window cleaners will fall through skylight windows however gingerly they tread across the glass
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NewsEU expansion blamed for UK construction death increase
Health and safety suffers as building projects fail to make concessions for multilingual workforce
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NewsBricks and stones may break his bones
Thanks to Ian Serjeant for this dramatisation of man’s inhumanity to man. Ian writes: “I attach a photo recently received by me in connection with a scheme I’m working on. In order to protect the innocent (and guilty) I had better not reveal the exact location.”
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NewsEveryone loves the sunshine...
...but few would be as stupid as this man oblivious to the dangers that await him
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NewsCircular saw + high roof + no harness = death trap
This roofer is standing on the edge of reason with his approach to site safety
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