All Health & safety articles – Page 52
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Features
Is Peter Hain right to be focusing so strongly on safety at housing and refurb sites?
Or do other sectors of the industry deserve an overhaul?
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Peter Hain: 'I will not tolerate a rise in construction deaths'
Minister says that next week's special forum on safety will not be allowed to become a talking shop
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One in three refurb sites dangerous to workers, says HSE
HSE reveal scale of negligence in refurb sector as firm is fined £175,000
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NHS Trust fined £14,000 after patient falls from window
HSE warns hospitals of their responsibility after patient forces window open
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Brugian blunder
This builder in Belgium's 'Venice of the north' barely has hold of reality, let alone the outside of a rooflight four storeys up.
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HSE confirms building workers responsible for foot and mouth
Final report says construction activities near the effluent drainage system caused contamination
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Industry to attend DWP safety forum
Figures from across the industry will attend the health and safety forum chaired by Peter Hain, the work and pensions secretary, on 17 September.
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Mobile crane overturns at hotel next to T5
Operator escapes injury after telehandler turns over after road accident
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Demolition company fined £50,000 after site death
Collapse of the Caledonia Mill in Leith resulted in the death of Gideon Irvine in August 2004
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Seven site workers killed in black fortnight
It has been a grim summer for the construction industry with seven fatalities in just over two weeks.
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Housebuilders back use of timber frame despite second fire
Some of the UK’s biggest housebuilders have spoken out in support of the use of timber frame in construction, despite another fire that destroyed a block of flats under construction in Hertfordshire last week.
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Tower crane action plan
Leading industry figures have pledged to improve tower crane safety, as called for by Ӱ’s Safer Skyline campaign.
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Clients responsible for construction deaths, warns expert
April construction law could give clients more responsibility for on site safety
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Man injured in Midlands crane accident
Man is found unconscious after crane topples onto a road in Sutton Coldfield
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Forklift schmuck
Peter Marshallsay said he had to look twice just to make sure when he saw this scene
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This microflat craze has gone too far
Keith Banton was in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, when he took this photo of what he assures us is an “ambitiously loaded skip”, rather than the latest housing for urban professionals.
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Critics bash plans for 999 call centre on flood plain
Opponents brand proposal for new fire control centre near Taunton “bonkers”, “stupid”
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We'll set up base camp here
These adrenaline junkies tried scaling the north face, but were repelled by the need for a cup of tea.
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Five workers die in August
The number of construction fatalities continues to rise as five workers die on sites during August