All Safety blunders articles – Page 4
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CommentYou couldn’t make it up
Throughout 2010 readers shared their favourite health and safety horrors from around the world
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FeaturesSafety blunder: Sliding high
A little slime and seagull droppings won’t deter these foolhardy painters
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Comment... and then there were two
It seems Mark Hammond, 12 November’s blunder spotter, was not alone.
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CommentDouble act
Mark Hammond says: “These men in Dubrovnik were making quite a good job of pointing the ridge tiles, but it makes you shudder to think how they got up there, or down again!”
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NewsSafety blunder: Catching a lift
Now surely using a forklift truck in this way is against the rules…
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CommentExtreme mowing
Nick Rhodes, of Oxfordshire housing association Sovereign Vale, sent in this photograph taken by one of his tenants. “This is a novel way to cut the top of a hedge,” he says.Email your “favourite” health and safety pictures to building@ubm.com or upload them to the Building Network at network.building.co.uk. The ...
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NewsRough trades take chance in Notting Hill
This window cleaner was risking life and limb opposite the Rough Trade record store in Notting Hill, appropriately enough
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CommentDropping in for a pizza
Thanks to Martin Corbishley for spotting this demonstration of the lengths some people will go to for a decent Quattro Stagione
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CommentTwo bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis
Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics
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CommentBalance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.
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CommentNot-so-smooth landing
Thanks to John Potter for this photo taken in Cheltenham. “At least the spiked railings will stop them hitting the ground!” he comments pointedly
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CommentOff his perch
Martin Ward, the construction director of Persimmon Homes, came across this set-up in Mauritius. He says: “There are vertical reinforcing bars below him and the cross supports are nailed to the block wall.”
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NewsAlways wear clean shoes …
Paul Southon sent in these astonishing pictures taken from a flat in the centre of London
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CommentFuoco! Fuoco!
Thanks to Rob Kirkaldy of Spectrum Acoustic Consultants for this site scene in Sorrento, southern Italy. Insurers of a nervous disposition may want to look away
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NewsSafety blunder: On-site showering facilities for cyclists sadly lacking
Health and safety manager Brian Butler sent us this picture of a man taking a bath in a bucket
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Don't look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are “all big fans” of Building’s health and safety blunders.
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CommentIt's just a step to the left ...
Our thanks, and the usual £25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.