Posts Tagged ‘Construction’
25/08/2011
Asbestos dumped near children’s play area
Residents were horrified when they spotted the corrugated metal covered in asbestos – a material proven to cause serious illness like lung cancer – abandoned in Newland Road, Hornsey, at the back of Campsbourne Primary School, on Wednesday, August 17. The fly tippers, branded “irresponsible” by neighbours who feared children would not know [...]
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 [...]
10/06/2011
HSE investigation into wood dust
The HSE is to investigate the occupational risks facing those in the furniture and woodworking industries, more than 10 years after the last checks. It says about 50 people a year are diagnosed with nasal cancer which may have developed decades after their exposure to wood dust, while others have asthma as a result of [...]
27/05/2011
The RED TAPE Challenge
The burden on businesses to comply with health and safety laws must be reduced and regulations made more industry-specific, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, as it revealed that 47% of businesses it questioned as part of a recent survey identified health and safety as a burden. The BCC reveals that nearly a fifth [...]
