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Backbench labor MP Frank Doran has...

A new forum is aiming to reduce bureaucracy and boost client...

In early 2010 the Health and Safety Executive's board has to decide...

The Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010 (the ‘Regulations’) come into force on 6 April 2010. The Regulations require certain...

 

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HSE are all over manual handling of plaster board on sites and expect to see the risks properly controlled and the guidance regarding loads and tasks not ignored.

A construction firm has been ordered to pay almost £110,000 in fines and costs after an unqualified employee was crushed to death.

There has been recent changes in the guidance regarding first aid training and length and contents of courses has changed and appointed persons courses have become approved by HSE.

There is a significant re-write of the guidance for carrying out of asbestos surveys what was the MDHS 100 is now the HSG 464 and type 1, 2, 3, are out and replaced by management survey or refurbishment survey.

SSSTS has become mandatory for a much wider range of clients and principal contractors.

A window manufacturer that traded without liability insurance has been fined £10.000 after an employee sliced his hand on an unguarded saw.

There was an abrupt rise in construction deaths in the late months of last year, according to figures revealed at January's HSE board meeting.

A high voltage shock which fried the mechanics of a tipper truck and endangered the lives of workers today (19 February) led to successful prosecutions by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Prosecution of Geotechnical Holdings and director Peter Eaton delayed because of defendant's ill health.

The HSE has prosecuted a family-run bakery for failing to comply with the Work at Height Regulations after an employee fell 1.2m off a structural steel girder.

Traffic management failures that led to a truck running over a worker on a building site have cost major construction contractor Carillion £194,821.

A property company, which failed to manage a construction project properly and employed a contractor without checking his competence, has been ordered to pay over £11,000 in fines and costs for offences under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM).