All Health & safety articles – Page 6
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NewsFirms fined after workers told to tape plastic bags around asbestos
Workers on refurb job continued to work for months despite the health risks
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NewsSpecialist firms’ injury rate falls by half in nine years
Accidents survey also finds fatalities fell by half over the period
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NewsNew health and safety bible coming
CITB urges site workers to order 2013 edition of GE 700 manual
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NewsApollo fined after seven hospitalised
Social housing contractor found at fault for carbon monoxide incident
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NewsMorgan Sindall worker crushed by cherry picker
Man in his 20s hospitalised after becoming trapped between steelwork and cherry picker
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NewsEnvironment Agency sentenced after worker drowning
Agency ordered to pay £220,000 after crane drags worker into icy water
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NewsCrossrail suspends ground breaking work following explosion
Firm reissues safety guidance to contractors
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FeaturesCarbon monoxide: The silent killer
Northern Ireland has taken decisive action to reduce carbon-monoxide related deaths by making alarms that detect the gas compulsory
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NewsCrossrail worker burned in ‘electrical explosion’
Man taken for treatment in east London hospital
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NewsCarillion worker killed after being struck by train
A Carillion recruitment subcontractor working on a renewal project for Network Rail has been killed after being struck by a train in Lincolnshire
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NewsFirm fined after concrete blocks fall on builder
Leicestershire building firm fined after builder was hit by falling concrete blocks and a wooden board
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NewsLend Lease crane collapses in Sydney
Dramatic incident - the second major crane failure for Lend Lease in a month - captured on video by passer by
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NewsInjured builder rescued from site by crane
Worker winched 75ft into the air from site in Birmingham to get to safety
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NewsScaffolding firm fined after worker's "life-changing" fall
Unnamed Kent man had to undergo brain surgery after 2.5m fall in January this year
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NewsAnother man dies on a London building site
Fatality on site in Tottenham is second death on a London building site in a week
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NewsHSE issues 23% fewer enforcement notices
But construction deaths remain highest of any industry
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NewsMan killed and two injured on London building site
A man has been killed and two others injured after an accident on a building site in south-west London this morning.
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News£124-an-hour HSE charging regime set to kick in
Controversial ‘Fee for Intervention’ scheme comes into effect on Monday
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NewsConstruction untouched by fresh H&S bonfire
Construction health and safety site inspections to remain
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NewsHanover Square death inquest opens
Coroner hears passerby was hit by two half-tonne windows from construction site in Mayfair