All Safety blunders articles – Page 27

  • News

    Toes like talons

    2007-06-25T12:58:00Z

    The only way is down when you've reach the heady heights of a safety blunder of this calibre

  • News

    ‘And they said I was mad …’

    2007-06-22T00:01:00Z

    We would like to stress that the cow in the foreground is in no way implicated in this rather spectacular health and safety breach, spotted somewhere in the wilds of Northumbria by Dale Heaton of Wrekin Housing Trust

  • A table used for scaffolding
    News

    Table for two?

    2007-06-21T14:10:00Z

    The table cloths have obviously been kept on to prevent any marking from the makeshift scaffolding

  • Crazy roofers
    News

    Making a quick retreat

    2007-06-20T12:12:00Z

    These two roofers are bringing the house down in an unorthodox way

  • Man on ladder
    News

    Here kitty kitty!

    2007-06-19T12:32:00Z

    What's he looking for? The meaning of life or his cat?

  • Men on ledge
    News

    Striking a pose

    2007-06-18T11:47:00Z

    There is a defiant nonchalance in the poses of these two workers enjoying a break

  • News

    Death race 2007

    2007-06-15T00:01:00Z

    John Campbell sent in this photo from the South China Morning Post showing labourers demolishing a building in Nanjing.

  • worker cleaning gutter
    News

    Storm warning

    2007-06-14T13:44:00Z

    How not to clean gutters after a heavy summer storm

  • Dangerous steel erection
    News

    Nerves of steel

    2007-06-13T13:32:00Z

    A precarious steel erection for a new Caribbean hotel is caught on camera

  • Dangerous painter on window ledge
    News

    Madonna: the untold story

    2007-06-12T13:03:00Z

    Never mind that Madonna was returning from Africa with her adopted child at the front of this mews, the real story was this blunder round the back

  • Window blunder
    News

    What's wrong with this picture?

    2007-06-11T11:17:00Z

    A lot by the look of things - see how many safety blunders you can spot

  • dangerous tiler
    News

    The most dangerous people carrier in Europe

    2007-06-07T11:52:00Z

    This MPV cabriolet allows eacy access to roofs but offers little in the way of safety benefits

  • Men on roof
    News

    What I saw on my holidays

    2007-06-06T09:54:00Z

    As well as pictures of beaches, temples and tavernas, Margaret Davis also got these Greek safety howlers back from Snappy Snaps

  • News

    The many uses of a plank of wood: no 91

    2007-06-05T15:03:00Z

    Thanks to Pat Joyce of Oaklands College for this one – clearly some people will risk all for a decent run-up to a rubbish-laden skip.

  • Scaffold erector index
    News

    Watch out below

    2007-06-05T10:37:00Z

    Londoners go about their daily business oblivious to the dangers of the predatory scaffold erector perched above

  • Man on roof
    News

    He's a man on the edge

    2007-06-04T10:40:00Z

    This is no way to add excitement to a cold drizzly morning in south London

  • News

    A short shelf life

    2007-06-01T15:05:00Z

    Thanks to Neil Farrer of Hunter Douglas for this Spanish workman in the act of installing an acoustic wood panelling system.

  • dangerous scaffold in East London
    News

    Spiked railings will break their fall

    2007-05-31T13:36:00Z

    You wouldn't believe it but two men took three days to erect this unstable platform

  • Dangerous Milanese workers main
    News

    Milanese fashion statement

    2007-05-30T10:19:00Z

    These stylish workers are wearing harnesses but they are just for show as they are not attached to anything

  • Contractor standing on roof without harness
    News

    Gormley goes to Preston

    2007-05-29T13:04:00Z

    It looks like one of Antony Gormley's rooftop sculptures has caught the train to Lancashire