Articles tagged with "health and safety"
Shockingly unsafe practices on building conversion site
There are plenty of safe and inexpensive ways of creating chutes or other systems for evacuating debris from construction works. This is a staple of buildings health & safety.
Yet her...
Fewer Health and Safety Inspections – Unless you’re in Construction
The BBC has reported on Government plans to exempt thousands of businesses from health and safety inspections by the HSE or Local Authorities.
From April 2013 the regulations will be...
Not enough ‘Elf ‘n Safety’? The Daily Mirror thinks so
We are accustomed to headlines about ‘health and safety gone mad’. But in an article in the The decision by Dedham Primary School to equip children aged 4 to 5 with hard hats, hi-viz jackets and clipboards, and to set up sub-committees that carried out risk assessments, has caused som...
The HSE has worked with the National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) to produce a new guidance sheet to inform and train those who have to cut roofing tiles to size – an innately...
Should Health & Safety be taught in primary schools?
New Guidance on cutting roof tiles with cutting discs