Health And Safety
Builders Continue to Recover after Croydon Police Station Explosion
By phillaw at April 3, 2012 | 10:59 | 0 Comment
Two of the builders injured in the explosion at Croydon police station continue to recover. One of the contractors, who was working for Vinci Construction UK, was taken to St George’s Hospital and was in a critical condition following the blast at the station on March 20. But it has been confirmed his condition has improved and he no longer faces life-threatening more...
Bronze for Weston Contractors
By phillaw at March 27, 2012 | 09:51 | 0 Comment
The Considerate Constructors Scheme has awarded Weston Contractors with a bronze award for the construction of a Newydd Housing Association development in Ffordd Elin, Barry. The national Considerate Constructors Scheme recognised Weston Contractors with the bronze award for their excellent standards of consideration towards their neighbours, their workforce and the more...
Health and Safety Investigate Explosion at Park Lane Station
By phillaw at March 21, 2012 | 10:22 | 0 Comment
Croydon police station returned to business as usual after yesterday’s explosion. More than 100 staff and 14 prisoners had to be moved to south Norwood police station following the blast in a decommissioned firing range. But police confirmed the station in Park Lane was fully operational by 10pm last night and all services are running as normal more...
Two Leeds Firms in Court Over Worker’s Crush Injuries
By phillaw at March 8, 2012 | 11:50 | 0 Comment
A construction worker had both legs broken when a 22-tonne excavator reversed over him on a building site in Leeds, a court has heard. The excavator on site in Tinshill, Leeds, after the incident The 58-year-old man from Barnsley, suffered severe crush injuries when the excavator backed into him as he erected boundary fencing on a Tinshill building site on 30 June more...
Pictures Could Save Lives
By phillaw at February 29, 2012 | 15:54 | 0 Comment
According to research released by the UK IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) deaths and injuries among migrant construction workers could be reduced if pictures were used in safety training. The project, commissioned by IOSH and carried out by GCU (Glasgow Caledonian University), reveals that migrant workers' understanding of building site health and more...
Steel Frame Structure Collapses
By phillaw at February 2, 2012 | 10:45 | 0 Comment
DGT Structures from Lenwade, near Norwich, was hired to erect the frame for a new £6.1m City Gates Christian Centre in Ilford, east London. On Tuesday the frame partially came down, but all 22 workers on the site escaped unharmed. It is believed the site team had clocked off for the day just minutes before the collapse. David Drury, DGT’s finance manager, said: more...
Subcontractors are also Considerate
By phillaw at January 25, 2012 | 10:49 | 0 Comment
The Considerate Constructors Scheme is expanding its Company Registration programme to include trade contractors. While the Considerate Constructors Scheme is for construction sites, Company Registration was launched in 2009 to allow main contractors to demonstrate their credentials. Company Registration has now expanded to allow trade contractors to register and so more...
Tribunal Rules Against Worker Blacklisted for Raising Health and Safety Concerns
By phillaw at January 24, 2012 | 10:50 | 0 Comment
A construction worker who lost a case against a major firm that admitted blacklisting him for union activities and raising health and safety concerns may go to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that UK law does not sufficiently protect agency workers. Sitting on 20 January, the Central London Employment Tribunal ruled against Dave Smith, 46, who had worked in more...
Crossrail has Awarded a Joint Venture of Bam Nuttall and Van Oord UK a £50m Contract to Ship Excavated Material to Wallasea Island in Essex and Help Create a Bird Sanctuary.
By phillaw at December 20, 2011 | 09:54 | 0 Comment
Tunnelling for Crossrail will produce in the region of 6m tonnes of excavated material. Some 4.5m tonnes is being supplied to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), which is planning to recreate a wetland landscape at Wallasea Island and help compensate for the loss of similar tidal habitats elsewhere in England due to rising sea levels. The excavated more...
Contractor fined after labourer fell from balcony
By phillaw at December 8, 2011 | 08:26 | 0 Comment
A Welsh contractor has been fined and its director banned from running a company after a labourer fell 7m from an unguarded balcony. Karl Kraus, 31, from Pembroke Dock, was helping to build a large domestic property at Incline Way, Saundersfoot, when he was instructed to remove a concrete block that had been placed across a doorway. As he threw the block, Kraus fell more...
