UK Safety professionals are urging the government to end its obsession with deregulating health and safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze. More than 70 organisations and figures from the UK’s safety and health profession have jointly called for a political sea change in attitude towards health and safety regulation and fire risk…
Read articleThe English government has directed local authorities and social housing landlords to run tests on any cladding on their tower blocks that has a composite core. Tower block landlords have been told that from today (Tuesday 20th June), where ACM panels have been identified, they must take steps to establish that they are of limited…
Read articleMonday 12th June Today marks the start of a Health and Safety Authority (HSA) campaign to reduce occupational health risks in the construction sector. Inspectors from the HSA will be visiting 250 construction sites, nationwide, over the next week with a particular focus on reducing exposure to carcinogens. The inspection campaign will be addressing exposure…
Read article‘A tragic loss of life’ – six killed in London tower block blaze with death toll expected to rise Six fatalities confirmed in ‘unprecedented’ blaze 20 people critical in hospital after London tower block fire Report: ‘Significant number’ of people unaccounted for Children thrown from windows by terrified parents Cause of fire unknown 74 treated…
Read articleHospitalisation of 11 workers adds to the pressure on the Dublin plant The hospitalisation of 11 workers following a major incident at Dublin’s new waste incinerator at Poolbeg forced the temporary closure of the plant within days of it coming into operation. The incinerator is still only at the commissioning stage, but the timing of…
Read articleA Scottish groundworks contractor company has been fined after a worker fell more than seven metres through a fragile roof. Stranraer Sheriff Court heard how a 42-year-old man had been subcontracted by McKeown Groundworks Ltd to carry out roof repairs on a barn at Whiteley’s Farm in Stranraer. The man began work on the roof…
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.…
Read articleFarmer pulled into haybob and ‘thrown out other side’ when attempting to clear blockage A man in his 60s was airlifted to hospital on Saturday after he became trapped in farm machinery in Co Galway. The incident happened on Saturday morning at Looscaun near Woodford. The man is understood to have been pulled into a…
Read articleThe latest UK Construction Market Barometer was published in May 2017. The survey covers areas such as changes in marketing spend levels, marketing recruitment, sales in previous 6 months and forecast for next 6 months. The barometer has been published on a regular basis since 2008 and is run in association with Construction News and…
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