Articles tagged with "hse"

Worker in digger bucket caught on video

Sometimes people do things on site that beggar belief. This is one such flagrant example of building safety being completely ignored, thus risking a man’s life. Fortunately a concerned citize...

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Dangerous Emissions campaign targets builders

The HSE has announced a campaign to focus on, and seek to reduce, exposures in the workplace to dangerous gases, dusts, chemicals and other emissions. Inevitably, the issue probably most in...

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Death at Luxury Flats construction

A very high profile construction safety incident has claimed the life of one site worker and injured another. Given that it has thrust building health and safety into the spotlight of media...

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Improper mobile phone use causes building site injury

In these pages we are accustomed to reporting on cases where employers are culpable of construction health & safety infringements of the law. Here is a (thankfully) rare case that shows that...

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