Articles tagged with "principal contractor"

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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Death of telehandler driver at huge contractor firm

In a building site, it can be the case that even sophisticated equipment that formerly seemed perfectly suited for its purpose becomes suddenly inappropriate and even dangerous. This is such a...

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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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Worker is injured as Improvement Notice is not heeded

In this construction safety case, HSE inspectors had visited the site and were so unhappy with aspects of its safety management that they served an Improvement Notice on the principal...

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