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HSE set to put scaffolding work under safety spotlight

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  The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) will be visiting construction sites in the West Midlands, Worcestershire and Warwickshire over the next 3 weeks. The inspectors will target poor performance...

9 Workers die as scaffolding collapses in Indian indoor stadium

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  Nine people have been killed and 10 injured after a gallery under construction in a indoor stadium collapsed  in India Indian news websites have reported that the accident happened at...

Cape’s shares take a nose dive

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  Energy services group Cape saw its shares plunge by more than a third last week after the group issued its third profit warning in...

Dixon Scaffolding (Transmission) bought in pre-pack administration

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  Dixon Scaffolding (Transmission) Ltd has been purchased in a pre-pack administration after missing a payment due date with the taxman. The administrators, David Hill, Julie Anne...

Scaffolder wins construction college prize

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  The Oxford Mail has reported that a scaffolder from Abingdon, Oxford is on his way to the top after winning a college prize. Apprentice Shaw Miller,...

Career ended by scaffolding fall

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  A contractor has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee was seriously injured in a fall from dangerous scaffolding in Hertfordshire. The 61-year-old, who...

Scaffolding collapses in high winds London

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  A south London street was blocked for several hours yesterday after a 10-metre scaffolding tower collapsed onto a car. The structure in Cambridge Road, Battersea,...

New scaffold training facility in Stallingborough

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  A new purpose built scaffold training and working at height facility has been opened and immediately put to use at Catch, Stallingborough, North East...

New scaffold guidelines in New Zealand

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  A news site in New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) have today reported that new height safety guidelines are expected to add thousands of dollars to the cost of construction. Any work over 2.4...

Fatality Figures need to be more forensic demands PASMA

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  PASMA, the trade body representing the mobile access tower industry, comments on the HSE’s provisional fatal injury statistics for 2011/12 which show a modest...
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