News sources have reported that a worker unloading scaffolding from a flatbed lorry was thrown from the vehicle and hit by its load of boards and tubes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A former scaffolding company director has been fined after two employees were injured in a scaffold collapse.
A 26-year-old man working for Robert Leslie Butler...
Construction sites are being put under the spotlight as part of an intensive inspection initiative aimed at reducing death, injury and ill health.
Between 20...
By Daniel Norton
Fred Lewis Scaffolding Ltd has been prosecuted after a scaffolder fell seven metrers through a roof in Stoke-on-Trent.
Father of three Gary Hampton,28,...