newsEast Midlands builder put environment at risk
A NORTHAMPTONSHIRE building contractor and its managing director have been convicted of storing waste illegally.
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newsFatal fall through fragile asbestos roof
A company has been sentenced after an employee of a Powys construction company was fatally injured in Liverpool when he fell six metres through a roof while working on a replacement roof project.
newsHeight safety breach lands community order
A CONSTRUCTION firm and its director have been sentenced after carrying out unsafe work on the roof of a multi-storey building in Manchester.
newsSurvey reveals workers’ building concerns
HONEYWELL HAS released the results of a comprehensive study on workers’ perceptions and feelings on the health and safety of their workplace.
newsRecognising health and safety in manufacturing
THE SHE Awards is now in its fifth year and aims to recognise the key role that companies and individuals play in keeping people and premises safe.
productArco experts support longest cave rescue in Welsh history
IN NOVEMBER 2021, nearly 300 people united to help rescue a man from the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system near Penwyllt, Powys. The caver had fallen, leaving him trapped underground with severe injuries and at the centre of a rescue mission taking three gruelling days.
newsHSE clamps down on South Yorkshire businesses
WITH A recent South Yorkshire inspection campaign drawing to its conclusion, the Health and Safety Executive has found that 65 per cent of businesses visited were in breach of the law.
newsMultiple safety failings on house build site
AN IRVINE-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after multiple health and safety failings, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a house build site in Irvine.
newsNursery fined £800k after baby chokes to death
AN EDINBURGH nursery has been fined £800,000 after an eleven-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food.
newsResearch highlights fire safety inadequacies
WITH EMPLOYEES and customers returning to workplaces and stores following the pandemic, new research by JLA has revealed that many companies are ill-equipped to deal with the growing risk of fires at their sites – posing huge risk to employee and customer safety.
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