Articles tagged with "demolition"

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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Serious injury in un-notified construction project

As anyone involved in building safety must know, jobs of any reasonably large scale must be notified to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). But as we safety consultants are only too aware, man...

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Contractors liable for worker’s fall

We often have to report on cases where working at height has been carried out without a proper risk assessment or safe system of working. The difference in this case is that although a proper...

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