Health and Safety
How to Make Utility Digging Work Safer
The safety and productivity of utility contractors digging is set to be improved with the launch of a cable detector that mounts onto excavators.
Keep Safe Working at Height
We are at a loss as to how such a simple issue can be over complicated by the construction industry once again.
Road Safety Week a Winner
As part of Brakes' National Road Safety Week, Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions hired a Mobile Exhibition Unit to visit employees at different depots and sites each day to present a road safety awareness session.
Being Safe is Always Best
With its largely itinerant workforce, construction is a complex industry in which the task of maintaining acceptable levels of health and safety is always a challenge.
Access Trainer
The National Construction College will open two temporary scaffolding centres in October.
Crane Safety Summit Highlights Training
Key industry figures have agreed on a raft of issues to be tackled to improve tower crane safety.
As a Site Manager are You Doing Enough to Prevent Falls from Vehicles?
Every year, around 2,000 workers across all industries are seriously injured in falls from vehicles.
Death Bosses to be Shamed
Companies which flout corporate manslaughter legations will be forced to take out national newspaper adverts spelling out why they have been prosecuted.
A Third of Sites Shut in Safety Raids
Health and Safety Executive inspectors called a halt to work at 31 sites in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley during July and the first half of August 2007. In all, 86 sites were checked.
Refurb Causing More Accidents
A third of all sites involved in refurbishment work are putting workers' lives at risk. The figures have been compiled by the Health and Safety Executive under its day-to-day normal inspection programme.
Housing to Blame for Deaths Rise
Health and Safety Executive figures reveal there were 3.7 deaths per 100,000 workers in the construction industry last year.
HSE Look to Take a Load Off Injury Rates
A three-month campaign will see HSE inspection teams from its construction division visit sites around the country clamping down on the unsafe unloading of vehicles.
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide
In 2003, a 28 year old employee died when they fell through a fragile roof light whilst carrying out work on an extension to a warehouse. A number of parties were prosecuted following the incident which the HSE said could have been avoided if some simple precautions had been taken.
Poor Health & Safety Management
The prosecution of employees surfaces as an issue from time to time, on chat forums and related websites. The reality is that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) does take action against employees, but generally only in extreme circumstances.
Asbestos Related Disease
Statistically, the cases of lung cancer relating to asbestos have doubled from 326 in 2004 to just over 800 in 2005. These are the most recent figures available.
SMEs Playing with Fire
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in danger of missing out on new fire prevention laws that make individuals responsible for staff and buildings, according to the Passive Fire Protection Federation (PFPF).