All Safety blunders articles – Page 30
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NewsMorrocan snakes and ladders
What's going to fall first? The wall, the scaffolding or the men on it?
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NewsChim chim-iney, chim chim cheroo ...
Thanks to Andrew Burt for sending this picture in, which was taken from his office window in Bristol, five storeys up
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NewsA curtain and folding canopy for safety!
Holding a net curtain and balancing on a plank of wood that's resting on a folding canopy above the shop front...
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NewsHow do we get down again?
It makes you wonder - are people actually trained on some sites to shimmy up scaffold poles
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NewsThe Venice chainsaw massacre
Thanks to Robin Whalley for this picture, which he took in a few years ago.
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NewsThe human cost of an extra bedroom
No upscale Victorian terrace extension is worth risking life and limb
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NewsA ladder in my sights
Neil Herbert whipped out his camera when he saw this dangerous ladder work at an Australian fudge emporium
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NewsBlack hole of Cricklewood
Prospective buyers of this North London home risk life and limb negotiating the garden path
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NewsThe thin blue line
Not as dangerous as it looks - these two are tethered to the chimney by a piece of blue string
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NewsWhy ladders work best from the ground up
An important lesson in checking that the ladder you are using isn’t 50ft shorter than the building you’ve decided to hang it from.
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NewsHow did they paint that?
No unsafe practice here until you realise this flat was painted eight storeys up with no scaffolding
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NewsSmile for the camera
These Costa Rican danger men took time out from bad working practice to pose for Vanessa Allen
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NewsMexican trapeze
Tightrope walking is seen as a transferable skill by these construction workers in Mexico
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NewsMuseum of bad practice
No one is sure how this worker managed to access this rainwater pipe on the the site of the National Museum of Kenya