Articles tagged with "hse inspectors "

Roofing contractor ignores own risk assessment

We have to write far too often about contractors that do not prepare risk assessments or write method statements. This is clearly culpable behaviour: yet here we have an almost equally bad case...

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Concrete collapse injures 3 on building site

This is a (thankfully) unusual case where an alteration had to be made to correct an error in the construction of a house, which resulted in a collapse due to poor planning and a lack of...

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Three roofers seen using no safety protection

Even on a 2-storey domestic building, the height of the roof and the pitch of it are enough to make this a very dangerous place on which to work. Building health and safety regulations are very...

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Unprotected scaffolding causes accident

This is an example of what happens in the dynamic, ever-changing situation on a building site, where circumstances change to make a previously safe set-up dangerous because people in charge do...

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