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DSJ Scaffolding fined after aircraft painter fell from scaffold

A Norwich scaffolding firm has been fined after a self-employed aircraft painter was injured after falling more than two metres when a wooden scaffold...

UPDATE: Bristol’s Union Jack netting is reinstated

  We reported last week scaffolders from Pocock Safety Netting and Advanced Scaffolding was forced to take down the patriotic safety netting by bosses. But after a...

HSE Target Yorkshire Construction Sites This Month

Construction sites in Yorkshire are being safety-checked by the HSE this month as part of an inspection initiative aimed at reducing death, injury and...

COMBISAFE: Keeping construction on track when under the weather

  In the last few years the construction industry has had to deal with rising material costs, construction-related bankruptcies, reductions in government capital expenditure and...

Scaffolders forced to remove giant Union Jack netting

Scaffolders have been forced to remove a giant Union Jack flag they created from netting. The Sun have reported that Development managers complained the patriotic...

Painters killed as mobile scaffolding touches 10,000 Volt power line

httpv://youtu.be/BiHyohqxRRo Shocking Video This video was posted to you tube on Sunday showing the horrific scene as four Chinese painters are electrocuted while moving a 9meter high mobile scaffold tower. Sadly three of...

Don’t let a dodgy ladder shatter your life!

 Ladder Association launches 2012 Ladder Exchange For three months starting 1 September 2012, anyone who buys, uses or has responsibility for supervising the use of...

UTN Training Wakefield has been acquired by AFI Uplift

  ScaffMag is hearing reports that UTN training in Wakefield has been acquired by AFI Uplift and Scaffold training at the site will stop. UTN based...

Pyeroy wins £1.1M nuclear sub contract

  Industrial support group Pyeroy has won a £1.1m contract to support the multi-million- pound refit of the Royal Navy’s Trident ballistic missile submarine HMS...

Retired scaffolder dies after exposure to asbestos dust

  A RETIRED scaffolder died at home in Cheshunt from mesothelioma after he was exposed to asbestos dust some 50 years ago, the Hertfordshire coroner...

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