Articles tagged with "method statements"

City of London building accident could have been fatal

Most of the building health and safety incidents that we report (for the instruction and information of others) take place on sites away from the passing public. In a minority of cases the site...

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Flawed Method Statement leads to serious injury

Here is an example of how the construction Health & Safety guidelines and procedures can all be applied according to the letter of the law; but if the content of the chosen method of working is...

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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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