News
- Changes to injury reporting (RIDDOR) Requirements to change from 6 April 2012 [...]
- Demolition worker crushed by falling wall Croydon man ordered to undertake 120 hours community service [...]
- Asbestos Training Pledge Initiative Training providers to deliver free awareness courses. A poignant target of 4000 hours of free asbestos awareness training has been set in a new initiative to help tradesmen across Britain protect themselves from the deadly dust. [...]
- Demolition worker fatally injured Whiteinch Demolition Limited, a Glasgow demolition contractor has been fined after a worker was killed when a weight from a face shovel machine fell on him [...]
- Essex man killed in roof fall A self-employed roofing contractor from Essex has been given a suspended prison sentence after an incident in which a friend fell through the roof of a domestic garage - and later died of his injuries. [...]
Safety Alerts
- German Contractor Restricted Work Incident – Impact by metal grid plate
- Positive Intervention and Preventing Conflict - Restricted work Incident
- Ground worker struck by excavator bucket
- MEWP fire
- Crane : Inspect and confirm the hoist rope Dont become distracted by others, double check your work and always get out of the cab . Inspect and confirm that the hoist rope running in the correct sheaves and that the retainging pins are correctly positioned.
- Grader operator fatality
- Syringe in sink trap
- Crane awareness
- Vehicle machine fatality Worker caught between unmanned seismic track drill and truck.
- Danger of infection
- Boom lift fatality On Wednesday 8th December at the Holcim Australia’s Kalgoorlie Boulder concrete batch plant, workers from Programmed Group were in the process of cleaning down and painting the batch plant silos and conveyer. Two men were in the basket of JGL 860SJ Boomlift at the time when it was travelling along a grassed area near the plant compound (photos) when the right hand front wheel broke through a soakwell causing a catapult effect to the boom lift resulting one worker to be thrown out of the basket who died at the scene, the other worker is bruised all over and is severely traumatised. Cranes had to be called in to stabilise the boomlift and retrieve the man trapped man from the boomlift basket.
- Pedestrian Struck by Vehicle resulting in Classified Injury a contractor employee was struck by an INEOS vehicle whilst crossing the road from the car park
- Trench collapsed A serious accident occurred on a DCWW Waste Water Site when a contractor was excavating a trench to determine the location of a leak. One of the contractor’s staff entered the excavation to examine the pipe before the trench had been secured with the appropriate shoring. As the contractor was in the trench it collapsed and trapped the contractor who had to be dug out by the emergency services. The contractor sustained a broken leg.
