All Health & safety articles – Page 34
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Housing firm fined after rooftop fall
Berneslai Homes blamed for inadequate planning and supervision after employee broke three ribs in 5m fall
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Gas cylinder blamed for fatal explosion on Laing O'Rourke site
Welwyn Garden City site accident that killed one and injured seven resulted from rupture of argonite cylinder
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Bovis to install black box recorders on tower cranes
£12,000 safety system to be fitted on all contractor’s major projects by mid-2009
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Ucatt: Change in asbestos law may have put workers at risk
Repair and maintenance workers are regularly risking their lives through exposure to asbestos, unions and safety groups have warned.
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Four construction workers killed in China
Shed collapse at residential building site in Hunan province adds to China's toll of construction fatalities
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Bam tightens scaffolding safety practice
Firm will use only scaffolding contractors that are accredited NASC members to reduce site risks
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Construction worker killed in explosion on Laing O'Rourke site
Seven other workers are injured in gas explosion on Welwyn Garden City data centre project
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Chartered surveyor's condition stable after injury on building site
Family await report on accident in which victim fell through a skylight
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Man dies in Mississippi scaffold collapse
Seven Land Coast workers were trapped in the collapse which occurred in a power plant
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Surveyor badly hurt on Basingstoke site
Man remains in intensive care as HSE investigates
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Lift plunge kills 12 Chinese building workers
Work suspended across Xiapu county after China's latest fatal site accident
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HSE demands safety overhaul
The chair of the Health and Safety Executive has said construction needs to overhaul its attitude to safety after new figures showed more fatal injuries occurred in construction this year than in any other industry group
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Galliford Try fined after site accident
Galliford Try Construction has been fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to a safety breach at a site in Holyhead, north Wales.
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The incident on 51st: Crane safety in New York
Since January, nine people have died in crane collapses in New York. The response? Tough safety rules, which the city council says will prevent death, and the industry says will make life impossible.
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Anti-scalding regs ignored by plumbers
Evidence from Scotland suggests plumber and fitters aren't bothering to fit anti-scald devices in new bathrooms
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Crane collapses at Singaporean school
Injuries avoided in fifth crane accident to hit the nation this year
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Construction has highest death toll, says HSE
More workers died in construction than any other industry despite a fall in the number of fatalities from 77 to 72 in 2007/08
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Head in the clouds
Should this German workman have his head in the ceiling while the public hurry past below?
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Excavator operator fined £2,500 for killing pedestrian
Driver who 'cut corners' pleads guilty to breaching Health and Safety Act
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Galliford Try fined £15k for safety breach
Contractor pleads guilty after worker injured when over-inflated pipe stopper exploded