All Health & safety articles – Page 28
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NewsRise and shine
This London window cleaner spotted working several storeys up without any safety equipment is obviously no vertigo sufferer
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NewsSafety blitz halts work on seven Cambridge sites
HSE issues prohibition notices to several sites with inadequate safety practice after week of targeted inspections
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NewsScaffolding firm fined £4,000 after pole hits passer-by
Company failed to take sufficient care to protect public when working in Coventry city centre
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NewsMan killed on London construction site
HSE is investigating the death of a 30-year-old last week on a site at Swan Lane
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NewsEleven die in collapse at Chinese plant
One worker still buried after ceiling collapsed during construction work on chemical factory in Chongqing
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NewsRoofer auditions for the circus
Poised on a bucket on a single scaffolding plank above thin air – this clown has missed his vocation. Let's hope he lives long enough to fulfil his circus ambitions in a more appropriate context
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Comment
Catch me if you can: Avoiding health and safety penalties
If your company faces an enormous penalty for breaking health and safety laws one option is to dissolve the company entirely. But is it right, wise, or even legal?
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NewsBahrain fire leaves 200 construction workers homeless
Immigrant workers dismayed as fire in capital Manama destroys two buildings
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NewsSerious fire on Chancery Lane - pictures and video
A fire has broken out at the Breams Buildings which run from Chancery Lane to Fetter Lane
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NewsCourt hears of how two died after worker loosened bolts on crane
Unsupervised man adjusted tower crane, which then collapsed killing men who were on the jib
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NewsScaffolding collapse injures woman in Tyneside
68-year-old was taken to hospital with a broken hip after accident in winds of more than 40mph
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NewsSteps up to heaven
Any worker climbing this precariously positioned ladder several storeys up could end up stepping into the next life
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NewsHSE to improve safety in immigrant workers
Polish, Romanian and Gujurati construction communities to be targeted by outreach programme
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NewsInquest launched into death of worker crushed by crane
26-year-old man was dead by the time ambulance crews arrived
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NewsThree missing in German building collapse
Digging under the street could have caused collapse of six-storey home to Cologne’s city archives
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NewsHSE to spot-check 1,500 sites
Safety clampdown will target London sites first in bid to tackle poor safety standards
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NewsDirector fined over death of teenage apprentice
Failure to store MDF boards safely led to 17-year-old joinery apprentice being crushed to death
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NewsPC Harrington to be prosecuted over Wembley death
HSE is prosecuting concrete contractor over alleged breaches of health and safety
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NewsHSE fines engineer £5,000 for failing to repair roof
DG Engineering pleaded guilty to two charges under health and safety legislation
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NewsNottingham housebuilder fined £10,000 after site fall
Wynbrook pleads guilty to breach of Health and Safety Act after electrician fell 2.5m in metal cage