Despite his request for a safety harness, the temporary worker was working on a roof without fall protection and later fell 12 feet through the roof. His fall resulted in his hospitalization with fractured arms and severe contusions. The employer, Cotton Commercial...
Training standard aims to curb injuries and fatalities in construction industry December 22, 2014 Jeff Cottrill Jeff Cottrill Categories Compliance & Enforcement Health & Safety Tags Construction Fall Protection Illness Prevention Injury Training/Professional...
Low level access manufacturers achieve compliance with PAS 250 standard Industry body PASMA has been driving forward minimum safety and performance criteria for low level work platforms – commonly referred to as pulpits and podiums. The body has announced that all...
Despite the ever-increasing demand for work at height across the GCC, rental companies continue to account for the majority of access platform manufacturers’ sales. James Morgan reports. Aerial work platforms (AWPs) are different from other types of equipment for a...
Asbestos information, instruction and training Contents What type of information, instruction and training is necessary? Asbestos awareness Non-licensable work, including Notifiable Non-licensed Work (NNLW) Licensable work with asbestos Refreshing information,...
Michael Galloway, trading as MG Construction, was fined £2,500 and also given a 12 month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at Newry Crown Court to three breaches of health and safety legislation. The case arose when materials containing asbestos were...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging businesses to focus on their legal responsibility to ensure lives are not put at risk and make the safety of workers their top priority for 2014. The fresh appeal comes as new figures show that two people lost their...
A Sheffield company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker was injured by an unguarded angle grinder. Sam Ashford, 27, of Shiregreen, Sheffield, was using the angle grinder on a stone block while landscaping a domestic property on 9 August 2011 when it...
A Crieff-based groundworks company has been fined for safety failings after a 20 year-old worker had to have a leg amputated when it was crushed during the construction of Griffin Wind Farm in Perth and Kinross. Gregor Steele, from Perthshire, suffered severe injuries...
