All Health & safety articles – Page 17
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Welsh firm fined after digger crushes worker to death
Court fines Macob Administration £80k after man killed driving mini-digger he wasn't qualified to use
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BAE Systems fined £80,000 for worker's death
Lynda Wilkins was killed in an explosion at the company’s plant in Chorley
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Hide and seek
This photo does not, in fact, depict a game but actually two workmen trying to repair a light fitting in the decking …
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Greenacre under fire
Greenacre Homes, the south London developer whose site went up in flames in Camberwell last week, was served a prohibition notice by the Health and Safety Executive for fire safety breaches last June, it has emerged
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HSE sues four firms over asbestos regs breach
Willmott Dixon and Style and Wood among firms prosecuted for breaches of safety regulations during refurbishment work
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London Assembly calls for fire safety probe
Proposal for investigation into follows series of timber frame blazes in capital
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A perilous purchase
This precariously perched building worker may come to regret taking on this (presumably cheap) job
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Clothing importer fined £10,000 after building collapse
Work to the building was being carried out by the retailer with no construction plan
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One dead and 12 hurt in Delhi Commonwealth Games fire
Insulation foam in workers' temporary living quarters caused blaze to spread rapidly after fire lit to make tea
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Judge rejects challenge to Scottish asbestos law
Insurers lose attempt to invalidate legislation giving pleural plaque victims right to seek compensation
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Isn’t it good?
On the edge of a Norwegian forest, on top of a roof – it doesn't get better than this...
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Experts warn recession may cause on-site danger
“Drastic reduction” in health and safety budgets and rise in site managers’ responsibilities could increase number of injuries
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Site safety as the ultimate snakes and ladders
The Swiss take a no-holds-barred approach to safety, invoking even the grim reaper to produce compliance through sheer terror – but with a sense of fun, too
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Camberwell blaze was second on Greenacre Homes site in six weeks
Blaze this morning on timber frame site follows fire in Peckham in November last year
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Tipped for the topple
Is that the infamous leaning tower of Pontefract – or just an idiotically erected scaffold?
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Twelve hurt as blast flattens Shrewsbury flats
Investigation is focusing on gas leak as probable cause of devastating blast
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Three firms fined £280k after worker is paralysed
Court imposes fines three years after container fell on man at oil refinery leaving him confined to a wheelchair
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Seven workers die in Chinese overpass collapse
A further 34 people are injured as disaster hits £2bn airport construction project at Kunming
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Living on the ledge
Well, decorating on the ledge, anyway – while clinging to a drainpipe, balanced on a set of steps above a row of shops