All Safety blunders articles – Page 24
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NewsA gymnast in the making...
This builder has the worrying air of someone about to perform a parallel bar routine from a great height
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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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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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NewsDeath and felt
Thanks to Stanton Copley for our latest picture of a man balanced precariously on the edge of an early bath, this time from Ypres in Belgium.
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NewsEven he's not sure
This builder seems to be having second thoughts about the wisdom of balancing a platform on a palette angled against the wall
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NewsOver the top
It’s a live-action replay this week, with these Scottish painter-decorators going the distance to get the job done. Bill Reddrop took the photos …
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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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NewsAt least first aid is just next door
Have the BBC decided to remake 'The Plank' and not told us?
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NewsToe curling painting
This Dutch 'gymnast' is making full use of the apparatus to reach the pointy bit at the top of the gable end
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News‘When I grow up, I want to be a tank’
Peter Hazleton photographed this little digger with big ambitions in St Leonards-on-Sea.
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NewsBrugian blunder
This builder in Belgium's 'Venice of the north' barely has hold of reality, let alone the outside of a rooflight four storeys up.
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NewsScottish springboard champion
The temporary diving board has been built off scaffolding in the Western Isles in Scotland
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News‘Come down here and say that’
Blind to the danger beneath him – and indeed to all the people around him – a South Kensington scaffolder stops for a friendly chat with his colleague. Ben Gardiner captured the touching moment.
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NewsHow many ladders to change a lightbulb?
A ladder strapped to a stepladder is not the correct way to reach a light fitting
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NewsNail-biting stuff
The man standing on this timber scaffolding was the person who erected it, yes or no?
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News‘Lend me a hand with this ladder …’
Many thanks to Duncan Bainbridge who sent in this unusual Hong Kong street scene
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NewsFrom this ramp, I will jump 15 school buses
At least there's a dust sheet says contributor Mike Smith