All Health & safety articles – Page 19
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Contractors line up against Tory HSE plan
Costain director warns plans to deny safety inspectors site access could cost firms £150k
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Rand collapse costs 200 jobs
Rand Group, a £40m-turnover Lincolnshire-based firm, has gone into administration with the loss of up to 200 jobs
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Lovells fined for seven-year-old's death
Housebuilder ordered to pay up £75,000 after child falls from three storey building
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Laing O'Rourke fined over Heathrow death
Contractor pays £150k in fines and legal costs after concrete slab fell and killed one worker and left another with serious injuries
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Andorra bridge collapse kills five workers
Workers trapped under debris after 20m section of bridge under construction buckled
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Soffit's not quite right here
Painting the soffits of a three-storey building while simultaneously practising for the gymnastics in the 2016 Olympics – is that wise?
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Asbestos campaign targets building trades
Safety campaigners say tradesmen think asbestos is a historical problem and they are not at risk
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Manslaughter rules could ‘signal end’ for small firms
New guidelines recommend fining guilty firms a minimum of £500,000, irrespective of size
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Tories will ‘change law’ to curb HSE
An incoming Tory government may change the law to allow contractors to ban Health and Safety Executive inspectors from sites
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HSE issues nuclear alert
Watchdog warns £20bn programme faces delay unless reactor designers improve performance
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Snow way!
Swiss builder leans over a three-storey drop ironically erecting safety barriers, while a full bucket of concrete hovers over his hatless mates…
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Construction industry has 'third highest death rate'
Latest Health and Safety Executive figures show there were 53 fatal injuries in the sector in 2008/9
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Firms and director fined after 'shocking' asbestos exposure
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV services and packaging firms punished over unsafe removal of hazardous material from Manchester site
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Safety blunder: Poor taste or a learning tool?
We've received conflicting reader comments about ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's health and safety blunders series, so we thought we'd put the question to a vote...
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Jesus, what are you doing up there?
These Portuguese workers must rely on the strength of their faith to save them falling from the rather beautiful – but high – dome of Bom Jesus
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True grit
Anoop Drubhra snapped this heart-stopping action hero from his Dover Street office in Mayfair, London
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'Fork it, let's skip the safety'
That was presumably the 'reasoning' behind putting the skip backwards on the forks of this truck to help a bricklayer fit air vents
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Bad Santa
Beware, it's that time when Christmas lights go up in town centres - but not always with public safety in mind