Articles tagged with "working with ladders"
Unsafe ladder use causes damaging fall
This is an incident that happened in isolation, during an electrical installation with no other building work: but it carries with it lessons for construction safety. Principal contractors...
Roofer caught out doing unsafe painting at height
This is one of the more ludicrous building health & safety infringements that we have had to report upon – and was caught on film by an environmental health council worker, tipped off by a...
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...
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...
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...