Safety - news feeds from HSE

A reminder that this site carries news feeds from the HSE website relevant to the construction industry.  Scroll down the right hand column to find the latest news.

Asbestos in system buildings

Noted on the HSE website…
This Sector Information Minute provides inspectors with background information on the issue of potential asbestos fibre release in CLASP and other ‘system’ buildings built between 1945 and 1980.
This document is published under the Freedom of Information Act.
Read SIM 7/2007/04 [PDF 560KB]

Health and safety in public sector construction procurement

HSE have now published their study that looked at health and safety issues in public sector construction procurement.
The broad aim of the research was to provide an evidence-based assessment of how well the public sector in England, Scotland and Wales meets its health and safety obligations in the procurement of construction.
The conclusions, drawn from the [...]

Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

This was the conclusion from last weeks Think 07 conference.
Maybe the the only action plan we need?

Impact on Bad Practice

I was fortunate to participate in an interesting event with Elevate last week looking at the social and diversity issues within our industry - and focusing on the impact of bad practice, ie safety
There was reference to Life on Mars ( the TV cop show set in 1973) with comments that maybe we havent moved [...]

MCG chair John Spanswick says supervisors not doing their job on site

Construction site supervisors are not sure about their role in terms of health and safety, are not being held accountable and are not supervising their workforce, says John Spanswick

This was reported in Contract Journal blog yesterday 1st March following more dangerous play videos reaching YouTubes
Do you agree - or disagree?  Do site [...]

HSE Construction Info-Net and CDM Events

Just received the CONSTRUCTION INFO-NET  from the HSE - if you haven’t signed up to this free email service it is well worth doing so.
The info-net report covers CDM 2007 UPDATE, CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS, (note this link for details of the CDM awareness seminars - one in the NW on the 20th March).
You can download [...]

How do we clean the chimney??

Is this your contract? organisation? or one of your suppliers? A well thought through method statement maybe - but how do we clean the chimney? Once again the impact of mobile phone cameras and ease of access to the website can affect the reputation of your business. And this is in the north west.
More [...]

Impact of Bad Practice

Following on from the post here regarding the publishing of videos on You Tube covering unacceptable safety behaviour and pranks, Building reports that Morrisons have suspened NGBailey, one of the organisations identified in the videos, from their framework contract that covers 149 stores. View video
Ouch
More details here
For your information the Elevate improvement module [...]

YouTube Videos

Construction industry outraged by dangerous activity videos, captured by mobile phones being displayed on YouTubes
In some of the videos company logos are identifiable!
Take a look at this one on Safety Helmets
Contract Journal link here