CSCS Card Amendments
CSCS have published their latest newsletter outlining the following amendments: PQP Card Requirements: Following a review of the…
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Company directors sent to prison for wall collapse that caused 5 deaths
On 7 July 2016, five agency workers were part of a team clearing swarf from a metal recycling bay at a site operated by Hawkeswood Metal…
HSE inspections target woodworking businesses to tackle occupational lung disease
Many woodworking businesses are endangering workers’ lives by failing to implement the measures required to prevent or control exposure…
Firm fined following outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease
A plastics manufacturing company in West Bromwich has been fined after it put workers and the public at risk of being infected with…
HSE inspections of woodworking businesses focus on lung disease
HSE are currently inspecting woodworking businesses to ensure dutyholders know the established health risks associated with woodworking,…
Accidents are “inevitable” – two fifths of construction workers believe
Two fifths of people in the construction industry believe an accident is “inevitable” on their sites, research has revealed. The study…
Company fined as worker crushed by 700kg crate
A glass distribution and installation company has been fined £200,000 after an employee broke two ribs and fractured his vertebra after…
Asbestos and You
Tradespeople across Great Britain are being warned about the hidden dangers associated with asbestos. Around five thousand people a year…
Company fined £200,000 after worker fractures arm
The 22-year-old, from Newcastle, had only recently started working as a manufacturing operative for the company when the incident…
CSCS supports HSE campaign to highlight the risk of asbestos to those working in trades
Builders, carpenters, electricians, joiners, plasterers, plumbers, and roofers, are just some of the trades being urged to take the risks…