by Tech Support | Oct 3, 2022 | General, Training
This month we are giving our customers a chance to win a £299 training voucher! Importantly you don’t have to be an existing Goldcross customer, the draw is open to all – so whether you are: An existing; labourer, operator, tradesman, specialist, operative, supervisor...
by Tech Support | Sep 29, 2022 | Construction, General
Lifting and moving heavy objects on construction sites is harming the health of thousands of brickies and builders to such a degree every aspect of their lives is affected. Experts at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are warning construction workers are picking...
by Tech Support | Sep 6, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
Two companies and two people have been sentenced after an 18-year-old construction worker was fatally injured while working on a house-build construction site in Boston, Lincolnshire. P & R Plant Hire (Lincolnshire) Limited, D. Brown (Building Contractors)...
by Tech Support | Aug 15, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. On 14 June 2021, the man was working for Staircraft Group Limited at their head office site at Bayton Road Industrial Estate,...
by Tech Support | Aug 7, 2022 | Accidents, Construction, General
A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site. Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of 26 July 2015 and was found the next morning by...