All Safety blunders articles – Page 8
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NewsSafety blunder: Poor taste or a learning tool?
We've received conflicting reader comments about Building's health and safety blunders series, so we thought we'd put the question to a vote...
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NewsJesus, what are you doing up there?
These Portuguese workers must rely on the strength of their faith to save them falling from the rather beautiful – but high – dome of Bom Jesus
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News'Fork it, let's skip the safety'
That was presumably the 'reasoning' behind putting the skip backwards on the forks of this truck to help a bricklayer fit air vents
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NewsThe nesting instinct
Charles Bosher spotted this creative contraption somewhere west of Reading
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NewsRed for danger
Or: how not to paint a drainpipe scarlet when balanced four storeys up between a gutter and a scaffold
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NewsThe props department
Another bizarre example of on-site improvisation, this time courtesy of SJ Taylor, who snapped it when on holiday on the island of Gozo, near Malta
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NewsOne man, eight ladders
Adam Meacham, health and safety adviser for Sir Robert McAlpine, has been taking his work outside the office – which is why we have this photo of a brilliantly improvised cladding in Portsmouth …
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NewsWithout the aid of a net
Our thanks to John Tarling for this one, taken from his office window in Southampton. Who needs safety equipment when you have the courage of a lion and the wisdom of a sardine?
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NewsBrugge health and safety!
These Belgians seem worryingly offhand about safety, balanced atop a roof with no apparent security – and one's on the phone…
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NewsHe’s the king of the castle
Kevin Power snapped this steely-nerved handyman, from his home office in Youghal, Co Cork. Perhaps the man is some sort of lookout for the building
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NewsRebarkable
Ten storeys up, these operatives are taking a relaxed approach to fixing rebar for a column in a building under construction