Dr Dave Smith, export manager of the Fire Industry Association, looks at the changing landscape for competency in the wake of the Grenfell disaster and Dame Judith Hackitt’s review of fire safety and the Building Regulations.
In an effort to halt the growing number of tradespeople contracting asbestos-related diseases, UKATA is calling on employers to deliver asbestos awareness training to all apprentices.
Trinity Developments, Niche Homes and APP Construction have been fined £670,000 over ‘potentially catastrophic’ fire safety failings at the Trinity Halls student accommodation in Leeds.
Newnham College has been fined £12,000 for failings that exposed employees and subcontractors to asbestos during refurbishment works on a flat owned by the college.
A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service has revealed that of 180 fires in the construction industry in 2018/19, 143 were the result of hot works.
Lincolnshire Police were called to a building site off Rudgard Lane yesterday (9 January), where a construction worker was pronounced after being trapped under a digger.
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd has been fined £260,000 and ordered to pay £38,299 in costs after worker, Mark Smith, fell 4.8 metres through an unprotected opening.
Hampshire County Council has been fined £1.4m after a six-year-old girl playing on an unsecured street bollard suffered a serious, life-changing head injury.
