Articles tagged with "working at height"
Dangerous demolition work leads to a roof fall
As health & safety professionals know, this is the year in which HSE is laying great stress on improving standards within the repair and refurbishment sector of building safety.
...Bad failure rate in building site safety crackdown
As we have previously reported, a 30-day September/October ‘initiative’ was run by HSE Inspectors as part of what they call the Safersites 2014 Campaign. The aim was t...
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...
HSE Inspector films unprotected roof work
As you may know, we at McCormack Benson Health & Safety monitor the construction safety scene very closely because it is our area of expertise as...
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...