by Goldcross | Oct 18, 2020 | Construction, General
The ‘European Week for Safety and Health at Work’ is taking place from 19th to 23rd October with EU-OSHA launching their Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load campaign focusing on musculoskeletal disorders. Musculoskeletal disorders (more commonly known as...
by Goldcross | Sep 26, 2020 | Construction, General, Training
With more than 3,500 builders dying each year from cancers related to their work and with thousands more cases of ill-health and working days lost, the HSE is launching its latest construction health initiative. HSE safety inspectors will be targeting construction...
by Goldcross | Sep 22, 2020 | Accidents, Construction, General
‘Check your hard hat’, urges brain injury charity: The brain injury association Headway has teamed up with safety manufacturer Centurion to raise awareness of the importance of using and maintaining hard hats correctly whilst on site. Hard Hat Awareness Week will be...
by Goldcross | Sep 16, 2020 | Accidents, Construction
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have issued a safety alert highlighting the risk of misleading gas detection readings following a fatal injury. Gas detection may be used in support of risk assessments associated with, for example, hot work or confined space...
by Goldcross | Sep 16, 2020 | Construction
In what can only be considered good news for the construction sector – the Building Safety Group (BSG) has reported a 41% decrease in the number of COVID-19 breaches occurring on construction sites over the last three month period. The report was based on 4400...
by Goldcross | Aug 31, 2020 | Accidents, Construction
Three construction companies have been fined after a worker suffered fatal injuries while demolishing a two-storey building in preparation for a development project. The incident occured on the 13 October 2016 and the subsequent investigation undertaken by the Health...
