Builder pays price after career-ending mezzanine floor fall

27 September 2013 Email this article

The owner of a Leeds building firm has appeared in court after two workers were injured, one seriously, when they fell from a mezzanine floor they were dismantling. One worker, then 61, broke two vertebrae and was in hospital for five days following the incident in July 2012. He is now unable to continue working in the construction industry because of impaired lifting and carrying abilities. The ... more

Firm fined after worker falls eleven feet through roof

27 September 2013 Email this article

A midlands maintenance firm has been fined after an employee was seriously injured when he fell 11 feet through a fragile roof while carrying out roof work in Nottingham. Stephen Bassford, 58, fractured his pelvis, wrenched his shoulder and sustained severe gashes to his face and left elbow in the incident in July of last year. He required extensive physiotherapy and stitches and was unable to wo ... more

UK construction industry facing skills ‘time bomb’

27 September 2013 Email this article

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has issued a stark warning to the UK construction sector – that it faces a skills ‘time bomb’ if it fails to recruit new workers to replace more than 400,000 people set to retire in the next 5-10 years. It cites labour market research, published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) which shows that across the UK: 19% ... more

British Safety Council launches safety and environment awards

27 September 2013 Email this article

The British Safety Council has launched this year’s Sword of Honour and Globe of Honour awards, designed to recognise and celebrate health and safety and environmental management excellence. The 2013 awards mark the 34th year of the Sword of Honour, awarded for health and safety management excellence, and the 4th year of the Globe of Honour awarded for environmental management e ... more

A tight squeeze!

27 September 2013 Email this article

Whatever the access challenge, we’ve got a piece of kit to suit. Just take a look at one of our machines enabling a team to carry out under-bridge inspection work in Cornwall. Our operator, Robert Roach, is using a Moog MBI 120. Created for this very purpose, it allows bridge inspections on a dual carriageway to take place in one pass, therefore reducing traffic management costs and job ti ... more

The weighty issue of safety harnesses

27 September 2013 Email this article

If you’re a little on the larger side, finding a harness to fit can be a problem, as most harnesses on the UK market are designed and tested to carry maximum 100kg (approx. 16 stone) user weight. However ZT Safety Systems Ltd has the solution. Their entire range has been designed to carry users up to 150kg (approx. 23.5 stone) as standard. What’s more ZT Safety Systems Ltd can also de ... more

F100 winner Gareth Johnson

27 September 2013 Email this article

We love seeing our kit out on jobs, which is why we ask you to send in your photos of Facelift machines at work for our monthly F100 competition. This month’s winner is Gareth Johnson, who took this picture of an Aichi 14 – a truck mounted platform with a 6.2m2 cage – being used by workmen installing glazing on a building in High Holborn in central London. Because the Ai ... more

Oh snappy day: Your picture could win €1000 Euros in the IAPA Photo competition

27 September 2013 Email this article

Budding photographers are urged to enter the International Awards for Powered Access Awards (IAPA) photography competition. And if you need an incentive to dig out your camera, there’s an impressive prize of €1000 Euros to be won for the best photo. A celebration of the amazing sights witnessed by members of the powered access industry from their superior vantage point as they carry ou ... more

Live in West Sussex? Get help ‘greening your business’

27 September 2013 Email this article

Carbon reduction is very close to our hearts here at Facelift, so much so that we were even nominated for a Guardian Sustainable Business Award last year. We’ve made it our mission to reduce the damage our business does to the environment, and over the past few years we’ve managed to reduce our carbon footprint by 403 tonnes. We did this by making a series of small, but extre ... more

Facelift makes survey difficulties a thing of the past at National History Museum

27 September 2013 Email this article

We’re no strangers to carrying out work on some of the most iconic buildings in the country, and this month our skills and world-class kit were called into action to carry out maintenance work on the Natural History Museum. We spent 10 days on site with our 61m Bronto, carrying out structural survey inspection work of entire east, west and front facias of the building and roofing, a ... more

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Builder pays price after career-ending mezzanine floor fall

Firm fined after worker falls eleven feet through roof

UK construction industry facing skills ‘time bomb’

British Safety Council launches safety and environment awards

A tight squeeze!

The weighty issue of safety harnesses

F100 winner Gareth Johnson

Oh snappy day: Your picture could win €1000 Euros in the IAPA Photo competition

Live in West Sussex? Get help ‘greening your business’

Facelift makes survey difficulties a thing of the past at National History Museum

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