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W G Carter has been fined £120,000 after carpenter Richard “Felix” Roper suffered fatal injuries in a fall during building work, with HSE pointing to safer access and work sequencing.

A Queensland coroner has called for mandatory additional controls on freestanding tower scaffolds in public places after finding that the industry’s accepted height-to-base rule of thumb was not enough to protect against strong winds.

A Guardian column has brought wider attention to recruitment pressures already affecting scaffolding contractors.

Manar Al Omran plans a million-square-metre industrial complex in Saudi Arabia to manufacture scaffolding and formwork for domestic projects and export markets.

Government figures show 46% of monitored buildings in England are recorded as awaiting work on unsafe cladding.

The scaffold came down at a development on Wattle Street in Ultimo, inner Sydney, shortly before 6:45pm on Saturday, damaging parked vehicles and narrowly...

Falkirk Council is inviting scaffold contractors to bid for a four-year framework covering scaffold hire, erection, maintenance, inspections and tie testing across its housing properties.

CSCS has challenged the reasons for CISRS’s planned departure, while CISRS tells ScaffMag its legal advice and concerns over duplicate cards underpin the decision.

UK diesel prices have climbed to a record high of around £1.99 a litre, putting fresh pressure on scaffolding contractors running vans, lorries and site fleets.

Saudi scaffolding firm Manar Al Omran has set a new Guinness World Record after building a 67.40m free-standing scaffold in Dammam.