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Awaab’s Law: early learnings

THREE MONTHS after Awaab’s Law came into force, early experience shows that while the new requirements can feel daunting, social landlords can meet them by breaking compliance into clear, practical steps, writes Hudson Lambert.

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Serious safety risks posed by unqualified contractors

THE BUILDING Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) have joined forces to warn that operatives often working for multi-trade firms are putting lives at risk by carrying out specialist work beyond their competence.

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Call to get ahead of site cooling

AMID FORECASTS of a major boom in UK construction, Aggreko is advising construction managers to take steps to protect site productivity and worker welfare as extreme heat increasingly becomes the norm on building sites nationwide.

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Lessons in air quality

Pupils and teachers deserve to have clean air in schools. Here, Mark Bouldin explains why we all need lessons to tackle a looming crisis.

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Hard lessons learnt from college Covid tragedy

WHILE 10 Downing Street suffered the ignominy and political fallout of ‘partygate’, at least no-one died due to Covid controls not being followed. Sadly, the same may not have been true for Burnley College, the first education sector employer to be found to have broken health and safety legislation in relation to Covid failings.

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