24 Mar February

February News

Welcome to our February blog! Here we will post our latest news and articles.

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WELCOME TO THE TEAM

We are very pleased to announce that our team is growing. Please join me in welcoming Jason Norton to H and B . Jason has just completed his degree at University and will learning and gaining experience with ourselves in the Health and Safety ,Environmental industry .

FREE ONLINE COVID-19 E-COURSELAUNCHED BY CITB

A new e-course was launched last November by CITB, titledCovid-19: Setting up and operating a safe construction site. Figures from the Office for National Statistics , revealed earlier this year, showed that men working in occupations including construction had the highest Covid-19 death rate of all categories of employment. The new, free e-course has been designed to strengthen ongoing pandemic preparedness, so that managers and supervisors can deliver toolbox talks to their teams on topics including: understanding how a virus spreads social distancing current legislative guidance risk management. Read More

WORKER FELL TO HIS DEATH THROUGHFRAGILE ASBESTOS ROOF

roofer was fatally injured when he fell six metres whilst working on a replacement roof at a property in Kirkdale, Liverpool. Liverpool Crown Court heard how on 22 May 2017, the roofer was completing snagging work on a replacement roof. The worker had accessed a part of the old roof made of fragile asbestos cement sheets, which gave way. He fell through the sheets to the ground below sustaining fatal injuries. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the area accessed did not have safety nets fitted and the building occupier failed to take reasonably practicable measures to reduce the risk to those working on the roof. Read More

SITE OPERATING PROCEDURES VERSION7 PUBLISHED

The Site Operating Procedures have been updated to reflect the latest Government guidance in England . The changes in Version 7 are minor, including updated guidance on self-isolation and shielding and the removal of the requirement to display a QR code in site canteens. Read More

COMPANY FINED AFTER COVENTRY SKYDOMESCAFFOLDING COLLAPSE

A scaffolding company has been fined after scaffolding collapsed across the entrance to the car park of Coventry Sky dome.
Scaffolding, which was approximately 13 metres in length and four metres high and had been erected to protect the public from falling debris, had blown down in high winds, Coventry Magistrates’ Court heard. The incident happened on 3 March 2019.
An HSE investigation found that the scaffolding was not adequately fixed into the structure and was not designed and installed to withstand foreseeable wind loads. The management of the scaffolding operation was well below the expected standard because it did not identify the need for a bespoke design, required to ensure the strength and stability of the proposed scaffolding structure. Read More