productManage concrete deliveries safely
THERE’S A lot going on at the average construction site. You’ve got workers moving around, plant operating, materials arriving and vehicles coming and going, often all within a pretty limited space.
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newsBricklayer hospitalised after roof collapse fall
AN OLDHAM-based construction company has been fined after a bricklayer was hospitalised for a month when the floor he was working on collapsed.
newsFloor Safety Awareness Month launches this September
NEW PIG Europe has launched Floor Safety Awareness Month, taking place throughout September, to help workplaces identify and control floor safety risks caused by leaks, drips, spills and wet surfaces.
newsUnsafe extension put family at risk
A YORKSHIRE-based building company and its director have been sentenced after botched building work on a home extension compromised gas safety and put the lives of a homeowner and her two children at risk.
newsChild seriously injured at Chelsea restaurant
A CHELSEA restaurant has been fined £50k after a three-year-old child suffered serious injuries when their foot was trapped and crushed in a descending glass window.
newsContractor fined after worker fell through fragile roof
A NORTH-East building contractor has been sentenced after a bricklayer broke his back after falling through a barn roof in Northumberland.
newsNetwork Rail fined £1.2m over wall collapse
NETWORK RAIL has been fined £1.2 million after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, following an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
newsAnalysis reveals UK’s deadliest workplaces
NEW ANALYSIS of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) fatal injury data shows construction and agriculture remain two of the sectors with the highest numbers of workplace deaths in Britain.
newsCompany and director prosecuted after worker injury
AN EVENT structure company and its director have been fined after an employee suffered severe, life-changing injuries while dismantling an internal steel frame.
productHelping frontline teams report incidents with greater confidence
AN ENORMOUS amount of effort goes into preventing and detecting incidents, and into coordinating how they are responded to. These are important steps in addressing the sheer scale of violence and aggression that workers face, which the Health and Safety Executive estimates sits around 689,000 cases annually.
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