All Health & safety articles – Page 26
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Six killed in Chinese bridge collapse
550 people help to clear rubble after 200m stretch of a flyover in Hunan buries road below
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Driven crazy in Peru
If someone's foot suddenly slips off the brake pedal, this could turn very nasty. Although any sensible chap would of course use the handbrake instead…
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TrustMark: a £22k tale of horror
This is the story of a man who gave a TrustMark-registered firm £22k to renovate his home. What he got for his money was two weeks’ worth of work, three years of hell and a wrecked house. But how did the builder keep its reassuring logo?
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Duct collapse injures 13 schoolchildren
Four seriously hurt while sitting exams at Kent school after heating duct falls from ceiling
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One in five building sites fail safety checks
Latest HSE inspections lead to enforcement action on hundreds of refurbishment sites across UK
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But is it art?
This intriguing and elegant structure is clearly a masterpiece of pinpoint balancing – but it's not really scaffolding, is it?
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School fined £2,900 after man was burnt on site by flaming sawdust
HSE says school failed to plan work properly or give builders proper instructions
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Waste disposal firm fined £8k over worker fall
Wolverhampton-based MES Environmental is fined after worker suffers broken bones
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Bend ze knees!
Surely even in Essex there are better places to practise one's skiing technique?
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Is that SOS in leg semaphore?
This chap is allegedly trying to seal ventilation ductwork from the inside, but we suppose he could simply have tripped
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Keen Construction fined for worker's fall through roof
Victim who plummeted five and half metres through a single skin roof broke ribs and was unable to work for a year
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Laing O'Rourke fined £135k over worker death
Judge says firm should feel 'ashamed' about safety breaches that led to fatal accident
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Video: Five-storey building collapses in New York
Front half of the building collapsed on a construction site in the Tribeca district
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Oh, what's the point?
We can only assume that the chap carrying out this tricky bit of pointing has lost the will to live
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Keltbray fined for fire
Firm breached health and safety regulations after it failed to ensure subcontractor did not cut through live gas pipe
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Bahrain labourers strike over colleague's death
Migrant site workers claim 30-year-old Indian was not sent home by employer despite ailing health
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Desperate measures
Either that platform is so unstable it requires a very particular stance or somebody can't wait to get to the bathroom
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Swine flu shuts McBains' Mexico office
Fear over outbreak of fatal swine flu prompt a week's closure for McBains Cooper's Mexico City office
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Two-minute silence for construction deaths
Ucatt urges site workers to remember site accident victims for International Workers Memorial Day
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An edgy painter
Three floors up, is this really the best way to paint the edge of a concrete balcony?