Louise Hosking, a chartered health and safety practitioner and director of Hosking Associates, discusses the challenges involved in identifying and monitoring asbestos in schools.
Rubberbond's report looked at mental health in the construction industry and found the sector suffers from the most amount of suicides of any profession.
Poor mental health in the construction industry has been described as ‘the silent epidemic’ during a speech at IOSH's first annual Construction Conference
Recent statistics from the Health and Safety Executive has shown no significant change in the number of ill health and injuries in the construction sector.
Vivalda, one of the UK’s largest distributors and fabricators of architectural cladding systems has produced a short film urging architects, specifiers and contractors to think more carefully about whole-system specification
Trends within the fire industry point to uncertainty, the FIA discusses the issues of rising costs and a component shortage in the wake of recent events
A new safety document entitled ‘Rescue of Persons from MEWPs’ has been published by the Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group (SFPSG), to provide guidance to facilitate work at height rescue plans
Devon Steel Fabricator has been fined £12,000 after young male construction worker fell through a fragile roof on a petrol station project in Barnstaple.
