All Safety blunders articles – Page 29
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Shall we bivvy here for the night?
You would think there would be enough harnesses in the Alpes for these two moutaineers
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Steeplejack swaps dynamite for a JCB
The B in JCB must stand for balance in this hairy demolition job
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The most dangerous seesaw in Britain
Can you spot how this worker has cantilevered his scaffold decking off this apartment block balcony?
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Kerplunk!
Peter Whitbread sent us this photo of a slightly, shall we say, disorganised site at Al Gouna in Egypt.
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Fancy foot work
Anybody wading through cement bare footed risks both lime burns and dermatitis. Not recommended.
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Scaffold soloist
Using the scaffold as a giant ladder is not the recommended method of moving around on site
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's gallery of scaffolding shame
Across the world people are still putting their faith in their balance alone
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The Lotus esprit
Henry Lamb sent in this photo, taken by a friend at the Baha’i Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India. Inspired by the holy surroundings, a lot of faith is being placed in that rope ...
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Scaffold scrimpers
An awkward pitched roof and penny pinching on the scaffold have combined to bring us this blooper
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Are you sitting comfortably?
Thanks to Carl Stevenson of Amber Valley council for this photo of a Prague workman – not his best angle admittedly – tackling some roof work on a five-storey building
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The siege tower of Leeds
Genghis Khan's conquest of China would have been in doubt if his seige towers had been constructed in this ramshackle fashion
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The eighth wonder of the world
Thanks to Gary Stanesby for this picture of an astonishing feat of construction ... and the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.
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Super-grippy shoes
They must be otherwise this man would have slid off this rain-soaked slate roof by now
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Has he just fallen from a plane?
No he's the latest painter to throw caution to the wind in our gallery of building blunders