Posts Tagged ‘CDM 2007’
04/08/2011
HSE’s Plan of Work 2011/12 – Part 2
The Construction Plan of Work 2011/2012 (Part 2) As well as considering the five generic issues (see previous post), they will also tackle: Management of health risks – they will promote awareness and knowledge of health risks in construction to achieve improved management and a corresponding reduction in occupational disease. Leadership – they will examine [...]
02/08/2011
HSE’s Plan of Work 2011/12 – Part 1
The Plan of Work sets out the work of the Construction Division for 2011/12 and outlines the direction of their work over a longer three-year period. The plan is designed to improve the health and safety performance of the construction industry; it builds on work carried out previously and continues their mission to deliver sustainable [...]
01/08/2011
CSCS Standards Strategy Consultation
CSCS is undertaking a consultation exercise across the construction industry to gather evidence to support development of a revised card standards strategy and structure to drive forward competence of UK site based construction workers in line with industry requirements that will: Provide a clearer series of levels focused on achievement Recognise ‘labourer’ and ‘semi skilled’ as [...]
25/07/2011
Consultation on cost recovery scheme for safety interventions
The Health and Safety Executive has opened a three-month consultation on how cost recovery for intervention will operate, having already agreed the underlying principle with Government. The new scheme could apply from as early as April 2012. The HSE’s programme director, said: “The Government has agreed that it is right that those who break the [...]
23/07/2011
CSCS plans major review to improve service delivery
CSCS is assessing how the scheme is delivered to the construction industry so it can improve service levels. Currently CITB ConstructionSkills provides the helpdesk and application processing service under contract to CSCS and the five year notice period to terminate the contract has been served. CSCS chief executive Brian Adams comments: “We need to ensure [...]
15/07/2011
HSE to charge for their time under fee-for-fault legislation
The HSE expects to charge organisations £133 an hour for inspectors’ work identifying and helping remedy minor breaches. HSE programme director Gordon Macdonald said the provisional hourly rate for so-called fee-for-fault charging will be introduced in April 2012, following a consultation exercise due to start later this month. MacDonald admitted that cost recovery was controversial, but [...]
02/07/2011
Workplace deaths increase in Coalition government’s first year
The number of people killed at work in Britain last year rose by 16%, prompting renewed calls on the Government to rethink its strategy to reduce health and safety activity and resources. Provisional figures released by the HSE) revealed that 171 workers died in 2010/11 – up from the record low of 147 deaths in [...]
24/06/2011
Are you really listening to your workers safety concerns?
A new report has claimed that the majority of UK employees regularly have to take decisions at work that they are not trained for or feel qualified to make, leading to increased stress levels. The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) study also found most workers felt their boss had a lack of competence for the job. [...]
02/05/2011
Managing cables on construction sites
Did you know? Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work and can happen almost anywhere. 95% of major slips result in broken bones and they can also be the initial cause for a range of other types of accident such as a fall from height. Slips and trips are [...]
20/04/2011
Builder sent to prison for putting profit before safety
A builder has been jailed for four months for carrying out illegal gas repairs and leaving electric work in a state that posed a risk of death. The builder was contracted to build a granny flat at the rear of a house; he started work consistently failed to turn up to finish the job. The [...]
