Laing O’Rourke has called for more regular rapid testing across the construction industry to help find asymptomatic cases quicker and stop transmission. This support of the UK Government’s ambition to expand testing and target workers [read more…]
As the lessons of the Greenfell tragedy continue to be learnt, Jonathan O’Neill OBE, Managing Director of the Fire Protection Association (FPA), outlines how it is incumbent upon building owners, or anyone responsible for building [read more…]
New safety and impact protection equipment from specialist Brandsafe has been specified to support operations at a major strategic distribution centre in the East Midlands. The move sees the UK based company installing a range [read more…]
Derbyshire roofing firm Permaroof has taken unprecedented steps to protect its workforce by investing £2,000 in coronavirus safety equipment. It has installed three Radikal Health systems – which purify and eliminate viruses and bacteria from [read more…]
Expert property lawyers are advising developers to act on cladding issues now to avoid the risk of paying out millions of pounds. Dangerous, combustible cladding has been top of the agenda for developers since the Grenfell Tower fire in [read more…]
In what has been a a year of unprecedented challenges for the construction industry globally, Mike Merrill, Co-founder and COO of WorkMax, looks at four ways of increasing jobsite efficiency and safety. A lot can [read more…]
Construction workers’ safety must be prioritised in the fight against Covid-19 but firms need to accelerate their adoption of technology to make this happen. These are the words of Cardo Crew’s senior leader, Shachar Harari, who is also [read more…]
As this year’s Fire Door Safety Week (21st-27th September) draws to a close, Bureau Veritas is taking the opportunity to give another reminder about the importance of properly fitted and maintained fire doors to enhance [read more…]
50 roofers, from ten different roofing companies across the country, have become the first operatives to become officially ‘accredited’ by RoofCERT, the UK’s only accreditation scheme for roofing operatives. RoofCERT is professionalising the roofing industry [read more…]
The UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) has raised concerns about the lack of asbestos training in the construction industry that has been undertaken since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the re-opening of construction [read more…]
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