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Christmas gifts for scaffolders
With just 21 days to Christmas its time to start thinking about what your going to buy for that die hard scaffolder in your life, here is just a couple of ideas we have found from around the web.
Scaffold Spanner Cufflinks
Check out these bobby dazzlers, these solid silver handmade scaffold spanner cufflinks are available from LWsilver.com for a large price of £185.
Steel Scaffold Model
Steelman24.co.uk metal figurines and objects are manufactured in original Steelman quality, elaborately and carefully handcrafted. Due to this workmanship, each individual product is unique and fulfils the highest quality standards. Price: £49.99
Could these be the perfect gifts for scaffolders… I doubt it ! Probably a crate of beer would do just fine !
Shocking USA video of how NOT to erect scaffolding
httpv://youtu.be/SPki6RM6kMc
This shocking video was uploaded yesterday and shows US scaffolders working unprotected from falls and working off just 2 boards….
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Harsco helps Manchester student castle development
The creation of a new, iconic development in the heart of Manchester’s vibrant student district has been aided with an innovative double-decked mechanical access solution from Harsco Infrastructure.
Working with main contractor Shepherd Construction Ltd on the prestigious Student Castle project, Harsco designed and supplied a bespoke system using solutions from its range of construction access equipment to provide access to all external elevations, allowing the architectural panels to be easily applied to the 31-storey student accommodation block.
The Student Castle, which towers over Manchester Oxford Road rail station from its Great Marlborough Street location, proved a complex building profile with variations in height, projections and recesses. Harsco’s team proposed the use of mast-climbing work platforms to provide clear, unobstructed access to all areas of the facade, while allowing the transport of materials to the working area to be unimpeded.
Harsco installed a mix of single and double masted platforms in 17 positions around the exterior of the building, with some reaching up to 100m in height. Of the 17 platforms, 6 were ‘double deck’, allowing two different operations to take place simultaneously with two independent platforms on the same mast. Several of the mast-climbing work platforms installed were mounted on roof areas at various points around the structure, requiring carefully engineered load-bearing support structures.
The team innovated further, with the introduction of a unique safety gate system. While most platform access solutions force the user to lower the whole platform to base level to enter and exit the platform, Harsco’s system allowed the team working on the Student Castle to access platforms from the upper floors of the building. As a result, the Shepherd team reported improved efficiency on the job thanks to increased speed of access to the working area.
Cameron Reid, UK Mechanical Access Director at Harsco, said:
“We pride ourselves on being able to provide innovative solutions to complex, interesting challenges and feel that we delivered the ideal solution to the Student Castle brief. The building is a unique design, meaning traditional access installations would have been difficult to use. By working closely with our partners on site and having a wide range of creative solutions open to us, we designed and installed a range of access solutions that proved successful.”
Building giant Carillion fined £130,000 over scaffolder’s Meridian Quay death
- Scaffolder In Fatal Fall At Swansea Marina Had Been Hospitalised 14 Times In 15 Years
- Tragic Scaffolder’s Methods “Out Of Character” Before Fall
- ‘”Specialists Should Have Seen At Swansea Marina Site Where Scaffolder Fell To His death”
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Scaffolding ripped off building by lorry
An articulated lorry has ripped 30ft-tall scaffolding from the side of a Devon department store.
The lorry crashed into the scaffolding at Trinity House in Axminster at about midday, police confirmed. No-one was hurt.
An onlooker said they were amazed no-one was injured as the scaffolding collapsed in a busy pedestrian area.
No-one was available for comment from Trinity House, which is thought to be the largest shop in Axminster.
Eyewitness Christine Boyd said: “It’s extremely fortunate that no-one was working on the scaffolding or walking by as this is a busy corner for pedestrians visiting the town centre.
“One of the doors into the department store is located right beneath where the scaffolding was.”
Via: bbc.co.uk
PASMA offers training spaces using Facebook to boost awareness
PASMA, the world’s lead trade association for the mobile access tower industry, has launched a new scheme which uses Facebook to help more people to find tower training through offering last-minute spaces.
The scheme allows PASMA’s accredited training companies to use the PASMA Facebook page to post information about any last-minute places available on their training courses. This gives those who need training an industry respected source to reliably find high-standard courses around the country. Through offering a trusted last-minute service online, PASMA hopes to encourage as wide an audience as possible to seek training and understand the dangers of work at height.
PASMA member companies have already begun to take part in the new system, with places regularly offered a week in advance from various well-known training providers around the country. With many of these spaces exclusive to the PASMA Facebook page, visitor numbers have already risen in response.
Ian Fyall, PASMA’s Training Committee Chairman, said: “We believe it is important to continue to press forward with new ways of delivering training to those who need it, especially the smaller companies which have traditionally been the hardest to reach with the safety message.”
He added: “With falls from height continuing to be the number one danger in the workplace, we must make it as easy as possible for people and companies to find training and understand the risks. PASMA believes that new media, with its ability to reach different groups than more traditional methods, can be a large part of that.”
This online scheme is the latest in a series of moves the Association has made to embrace new media. Since creating a new social media role within the organisation this summer it now updates its online channels daily, and regularly produces multimedia content such as online videos. Through this scheme and future projects, PASMA plans to continue to be at the vanguard among trade associations for using technology to widen the safety message.
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Teenager dies after falling from scaffolding in Ilford
A 16-year-old died on Wednesday after falling from scaffolding on a two-story house in Wanstead, Ilford, UK
Alfie Perrin from Enfield fell from scaffolding on a property in Camden Road on Wednesday afternoon.
Ambulance staff and the London air ambulance were called to the property but later died from a head injury.
An inquest has been opened and adjourned into his death, which is being treated as unexplained.
One news source had reported speaking to a neighbour who said building work was taking place at the property where the incident happened.
He added: “I had gone out and seen builders looking at plans outside the property.
“I think they were working on a loft extension.”When I came back one of the builders stopped me and told me there had been an accident. “I asked what had happened and he said someone had fallen.”
A joint investagation with the Health and Safety and Ilford police is now underway
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Deborah Services Limited appoints new Group Business Director
Industrial services company Deborah Services Limited (DSL) has appointed Peter Hughes as Group Business Development Director. Mr Hughes will have responsibility for developing new business opportunities for DSL, with a particular focus on growth into international markets.
Mr Hughes previously worked for six years in the same role for Cape Plc, where he successfully led the company’s expansion into new markets across a wide international footprint. Last month former Cape Chief executive Martin May was appointed as Chairman of DSL, and as a non-executive director of DSL’s parent company Siteserv.
Prior to working for Cape, Mr Hughes was Business Development Director for support services company Interserve Plc, where he led a strategy to build the company’s UK business and diversify revenue streams.
Commenting on his appointment, Martin May, Chairman of DSL said:
“Peter’s appointment is a key element of our ambitious growth strategy that will see DSL expand its operations across a number of international markets.
Peter is an experienced business development professional who has an impressive background in the construction support services sector through his work with both Interserve and Cape”
DSL is one of the UK’s leading industrial services and scaffolding supply companies, and now employs over 1,300 staff throughout the United Kingdom.