High standards
NASC Members’ excellent safety statistics are no accident. Simon Robinson gives details of the latest safety report, which shows that members are working to the highest standards.
NASC Members’ excellent safety statistics are no accident. Simon Robinson gives details of the latest safety report, which shows that members are working to the highest standards.
The NASC president, Kevin Ward’s ‘New Apprenticeship Challenge’ to create 400 scaffolding apprentices in his two year tenure has been achieved – three months before the November 2015 deadline.
The NASC has published its highly-regarded 2017 Safety Report documenting and analysing accident and injury statistics for its full contracting members in 2016 – representing over 17,000 UK scaffolding operatives, which constitutes a significant percentage of the total British scaffolding workforce.
The NASC has made changes to its Council structure, with Alan Harris (Pro-Fix Access), Sean Pike (Layher) and Rob Lynch (Lyndon Scaffolding) elected as co-opted members of the NASC Council, effective for two years from the confederation’s AGM, November 25 2016.
The NASC has rejoined the Access Industry Forum (AIF) – the UK’s leading platform for principal trade bodies and federations in the work at height sector, with effect from 1 July 2016.
The NASC has launched an updated version of its user-friendly, free Scaffold Specification Template (Guide to Managing and Appointing Scaffolding Contractors).
The NASC has launched an updated version of its user-friendly, free Scaffold Specification Template (Guide to Managing and Appointing Scaffolding Contractors). HSM explores what’s new in the guide.
Poundworld has been fined £63,000 for selling High-Vis jackets which carried the logo ‘Be safe – be seen’ despite not actually being reflective.
With the publication of its 2016 Yearbook, the NASC has unveiled details of the impending core scaffolding fall prevention guidance, SG4:15. So what does this mean and how will it affect you?
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