Articles tagged with "scaffolding"
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...
Scaffolders ignore construction safety rules – public put at risk
It seems that scaffolding has suddenly become more dangerous than before, due to a spate of publicised accidents and infractions of the law: but in reality it is the (bad) luck of the draw as t...
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...
Another faulty scaffolding case highlights construction safety shortcomings
When we hear about health and safety cases that come to the courts, they have inevitably done so after quite a delay, sometimes years. However, there has been a worrying clutch of cases recentl...
Public put at risk by dangerous scaffolding
Scaffolding has very much been in the spotlight in building health and safety terms recently, especially with the series of rolling regional ‘crackdowns’ by HSE on working at height...