All Health & safety articles – Page 8
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St John Ambulance calls on construction firms to train staff in first aid
Organisation working with HSE to improve site safety and highlights importance of firms having first aid training
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HSE launches new construction site clampdown
Health & Safety Executive warns safety of staff working ‘at height’ will be a prime focus of latest drive
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Three Scottish companies fined after fall from height
Electrician’s labourer and athlete left with serious injuries after Dundee fall, court hears
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Multi-storey tower collapses
Tall building in Rio collapses killing at least two following reports of gas explosion
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Firm fined for worker's horrific head injuries
Van Elle Ltd to pay £43,000 after accident on M1 widening job
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Cameron under fire over health and safety ‘myths’
Shadow construction minister says PM should look at reducing fatalities and injuries
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Scaffolding firm to pay out £85k after worker left paralysed
Man crushed under one and a half tonnes of scaffolding will never walk again
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Construction still worst for deaths at work, HSE confirms
Health & Safety Executive planning new safety campaign after grim stats show rise in fatalities
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Brain damaged demolition worker gets £1.75m
Christopher Kaye, 57, will receive damages from former employer Euro Dismantling Services
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Contractor fined after labourer fell from balcony
Preseli Construction & Maintenance admitted failing to ensure work was properly planned and supervised
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Oxford Street works cause road closures amid crush fears
Westminster council closed parts of the London shopping street on Saturday and Sunday
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Half of health and safety laws to go in three years
Employment minister promises to ‘put common sense back at the heart of health and safety’
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Timber frame industry tackles fire safety
UK Timber Frame Association and HSE have joined forces to promote more fire resistant time frame systems
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Mother slams crane safety plans
Mother who lost son in Battersea crane disaster hits out at HSE plans to scrap tower crane register
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Commons: we're tackling asbestos
Bercrow has given details of how Parliament is tackling its asbestos problem
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Third of basement construction sites branded unsafe
HSE inspectors visited 109 London sites in a series of raids, issuing 76 enforcement notices
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Rockwool wins British Safety Council prize
BSC awards the insulation company its Sword of Honour prize for 2011
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NFDC suspends demolition contractor after site death
Trade body suspends Essex-based Micor’s membership
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Company fined £15,000 after worker loses finger
Lifting operation at modular building company was disorganised and could have had much worse consequences, said health and safety inspector
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Joiner breaks leg after scaffolding hit by bus
Panther Scaffolding fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £3,739 costs