As we strive to find ways to store vast amounts of data into smaller and smaller spaces, IBM has just managed to put 330TB into the palm of our hand. In collaboration with Sony Storage Media Solutions, IBM has managed to create a tiny storage cartridge with 330TB of capacity. To do so, it used…
Read articleA Galway company has been fined a total of €22,500 after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety regulations, following the death of an employee in 2015. Forde Dismantlers Limited is based in Corrandulla, Co Galway. The charge against the firm was brought after an investigation by the Health and Safety Authority into the…
Read articleUniversal rural broadband connectivity in Ireland would generate 2,600 new direct and indirect jobs, Engineers Ireland has claimed. In its latest report – ‘The State of Ireland 2017 – A Review of Infrastructure in Ireland’ – Engineers Ireland also calls on the Irish Government to establish a single infrastructure unit to embrace fresh ideas on…
Read articleAn engineering firm has been fined £120,000 after telling a welder to keep working despite complaining of sore hands from vibrating tools. Newfield Fabrications Co Ltd was prosecuted for failing to manage the risk of employees using hand held power tools experiencing hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). Manchester and Salford Magistrates heard how Newfield Fabrications failed…
Read articleAn Irishman has sustained critical injuries following a fall at a construction site in Australia. The man fell several stories from scaffolding at a site in Surfers Paradise near Brisbane. Witnesses reportedly saw him fall about 20 metres (65 feet) before landing on concrete. He has been transported by ambulance to Gold Coast University Hospital.…
Read articleOn Tuesday 4th July 2017 some Flex systems were experiencing a slowdown when users accessed. Our technicians worked to resolve this quickly, and these systems are now back up and running at normal speeds. George Curley Chief Executive Officer
Read articleTwo construction companies have been fined after a woman was struck by scaffolding fittings dropped from a crane. Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how employees of Carter Training Ltd were using a mobile crane in Queen Mothers Square, Poundbury, Dorchester when an attachment holding 500 scaffolding fittings was turned on its side. The fittings, weighing 2kg…
Read articleA London roofing company has been fined £160,000 plus costs after a worker fell two storeys onto a concrete floor. Southwark Crown Court heard how 56-year old Ali Mucoj had been completing roof work for Wessexmoor Ltd at a site on Glycena Road in London when he fell from an unguarded rear roof. He suffered…
Read articleA Polish road worker has died after he was crushed by a machine in south Armagh. The accident happened as the man, who was working as a contractor, was laying a new road surface on Bog Road outside Mullaghbawn at around 2pm on Wednesday, May 31st. It is understood the man died after he became…
Read articleA Glasgow construction company has been heavily fined after a pensioner managed to stray onto one of its sites and drowned in an excavated pit. Kirkcaldy Sherriff Court heard that in early January 2015 an 83-year-old John Philbin with a number of age-related illnesses wandered onto a house-building site that was closed for the holidays.…
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