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North East construction firms are being offered the chance to get first hand insight into how the high health and safety standards were achieved during the "Big Build" phase of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. At the half day event on 12 October, Lawrence Waterman, Head of Health and Safety for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), will be describing how an outstanding heal ... more
A worker could have been killed when he fell off a forklift truck in Leigh while trying to climb onto its roof, a court has heard. The 29-year-old man from Tyldesley, who has asked not to be named, struck his head on the ground and was knocked unconscious for several minutes in the incident at Moss Industrial Estate on St Helens Road in Leigh. His employer, Serviceplan Contracts Ltd, was p ... more
For the second year running, figures released by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that the number of injuries involving the use of ladders and stepladders has fallen from 2132 in 2007/08 to 2011 in 2008/09 and 1817 in 2009/10. This despite an average overall increase of 51 per cent in the total number of falls from height reported to HSE over the same period. &nb ... more
Congratulations to Nick Elsworth for this great shot taken on board an Aerial Aichi 14m Truck mounted platform being used to test the insitu stresses in a post tensioned bridge. The job was for A1+ working over the M56 supervising a novel technique to test insitu stresses in the bridge deck and soffit. The platform allowed three men plus the heavy hydraulic cutting equipment to work safely a ... more
The men are painting the church clock tower in the northern town of Mussina, (previously Messina) South Africa on the border with Zimbabwe. Article from from Vertikal.net The first glimpse looks bad enough, the man is clearly on a long ladder at some height and trying to rub down and paint. The ladder is though longer than you might think, the one the man is on is not resting on the ... more
Two London construction companies have been fined for "appalling" standards at a building site in the London Borough of Merton. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted principal contractor, Kubik Homes Ltd, and the subcontractor, Bellway Developments Ltd after visiting the site in Wimbledon on several occasions. Kubik Homes Ltd had already been served with four Prohibition N ... more
A wide-ranging review of PASMA's recommended best practice for the avoidance of falls from height from mobile access towers has been conducted by PASMA in collaboration with the Health & Safety Executive. Download the PASMA Review Foreword from the HSE PASMA the lead industry body for the mobile access tower sector, has led a wide-rangin ... more
Spark's Mechanical Services Ltd, an Aberdeen electrical and refrigeration services company, has been fined £10,000 after a worker was seriously injured when he fell 2.6 metres from a scaffolding tower. On 19 October 2010, Charles Howie was working on a scaffolding tower at Iceberg Ltd fish processing factory in Fraserburgh to remove two ceiling mounted refrigeration units from the ... more
A crackdown on unsafe construction sites is due to begin today (Monday 26 September) as businesses turn their attention to renovations and building projects now the tourist season is coming to a close. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be visiting small-scale projects and refurbishment sites which are responsible for more than half of the deaths in the construction sector, ... more
We recently helped complete inspection works at Keppel’s Column Rotherham, using the Bronto 61m to inspect the column for wear and tear and general condition. The job was a high profile one as there were press from the local papers, police and the Mayor of Rotherham. At 115 feet, Keppel’s Column is the tallest of the Wentworth follies, and was originally planned to be even taller ... more
