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Keep up to dateTaking your sandals off so you can get a firm grip on the top edge of the stepladder with your toes doesn't really count as proper safety procedure, we suspect
Having lunch in Dubai, Cor Benjamin spotted this worker cleaning bird excrement from the lamp posts. "His ladder wasn't quite high enough," comments Cor 鈥� well, apparently it is, if you count the very top edge of the stepladder and (of course) leave your sandals at the bottom.
'This is nothing 鈥� when we work at height we then need to strap on a another ladder,' this contractor told our alarmed correspondent
This London window cleaner spotted working several storeys up without any safety equipment is obviously no vertigo sufferer
Poised on a bucket on a single scaffolding plank above thin air 鈥� this clown has missed his vocation. Let's hope he lives long enough to fulfil his circus ambitions in a more appropriate context
Mark Robinson has previously suggested figure on government contracts should be 5%
Chief executive Andrew Davies says company not interested in collapsed company鈥檚 private sector work
Paul Woodhams becomes boss of remediation arm
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