Articles tagged with "working at height"
Unsafe ladder use leads to terrible fall
The new HSE guidelines on working at height (which we have just reported on) included clarification on the Executive’s attitude to the use of ladders – they do not forbid it but they want...
Simplified Construction Safety Instructions for Working at Height
The reform of health and safety regulations, that was launched by Government in 2013 as part of its Red Tape Challenge, has had one more effect at the beginning of 2014 with the launch of...
Unsafe roofing work captured on TV
Building health and safety is often the subject of court actions and may reach the columns of the local and occasionally national press, but it is rare for an infringement to be featured on...
HSE focuses on Summer Education building safety
It may have escaped the attention of a lot of contractors and construction safety specialists, because the HSE has only sent out a release regionally and just one working day ahead of...
Shockingly unsafe practices on building conversion site
There are plenty of safe and inexpensive ways of creating chutes or other systems for evacuating debris from construction works. This is a staple of buildings health & safety.
Yet her...