A son frantically pulled his father to safety after he was trapped by rubble when a building collapsed during unsafe renovation work, a court has heard.

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An Essex construction firm has been fined for safety failings after an employee broke his spine when he fell through a skylight opening at a construction site in Hampshire.

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A worker has been killed on a Redrow Homes construction site in Liverpool after being hit by a vehicle.
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This project was designed to develop a system which will allow the generation of vapour from selected VOC liquids at higher concentrations than can be supplied commercially in gas cylinders or from existing HSL systems, and to use this to investigate the accuracy of PIDs at these high concentrations.

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A builder has been jailed for 12 months for illegally carrying out sub-standard gas work at a lone pensioner’s home in Bedfordshire.

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is inviting representatives of the construction industry to a free seminar about the dangers of dust.

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Agenda and papers for the HSE Board meeting held on 14 August 2013, now available online.

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As the heatwave in Britain subsides, it seems the country’s jobsworths have been suffering from heatstroke as The Health and Safety Executive releases yet more barmy ‘elf and safety myths, in its drive to bring common sense back into decision making and to combat misuses of health and safety legislation.

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Falls from height in the construction industry have increased 60 per cent on last year, figures from the Building Safety Group have revealed.
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A Hertfordshire firm has been prosecuted for safety breaches after a trainee employee suffered multiple fractures in an eight-metre fall from a roof.

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