Health & Safety news
HSE to re-write the CDM Regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has told an Association for Project Safety (APS) event that it is to redrafting the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations for reissue in 2104.
Construction firms fined over Liverpool crane collapse
Two construction firms have been sentenced after a crane collapsed onto a city centre apartment block in Liverpool, resulting in the crane driver being paralysed from the waist down.
Crossrail appoints new health and safety director
Crossrail has today announced the appointment of Steve Hails as health & safety director.
NCE Health & Safety blog
Health & Safety - time to act on construction's achilles heel
Official figures showed that the number of deaths in the construction sector rose from 41 to 50 last year. To drive health and safety to the top of the agenda, NCE has joined forces with the Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Standing Committee on Structural Safety to produce a quarterly special focused on highlighting best practice while also examining the latest issues and setting out where work still needs to be done.
Climate of fear surrounds accident reporting
The construction industry is a killer with a “climate of fear” running throughout the supply chain largely to blame. That is the stark conclusion to be drawn from the Office of Rail Regulation’s (ORR’s) latest annual assessment of Network Rail’s performance.
