Articles tagged with "construction safety"

Uncontrolled demolition risked lives

Demolishing a building might look a lot easier than putting one up. But this dangerous assumption by one contractor put lives at risk and has now landed him with a suspended jail sentence.

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Fatal accident due to lack of fencing

Protecting the public is as important as protecting your workforce. So fencing off a building site completely could be the most vital thing a site manager ever does. The public-at-large should...

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New worker dies after inadequate dumper truck training

Whenever workers are required to operate dangerous machinery such as trucks, they must be properly trained by people certified to do so. In this case a young worker had literally just begun wor...

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