Articles tagged with "scaffolding"

Lone building worker dies from fall in boiler house

As we often have cause to remind our construction safety specialist readers, falls from height are the most common cause of death at work in the building trades. In this case it was a...

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Repetition of unsafe work at height beggars belief

In our efforts to bring you the most instructive court cases and the most relevant developments relating to construction safety, we often find ourselves reporting on losses of life and serious...

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Unprotected scaffold work horrifies passer-by

Remember the classic poster showing New York construction workers sitting on a girder hundreds of feet in the air? Unthinkable in the health and safety culture of today, right? Well this case...

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Evidence of dangerous roof work

This is, sadly, not the first time that building safety lapses have been caught on camera – and given the explosion in smartphone use, we can expect the trend to increase. It all means that...

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Untrained worker falls from scaffolding

It is essential to good building safety practice that workers are trained before carrying out any work, and that the proper precautions are observed. In this sad case, neither of these...

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