Working in Heat and Frost on Site: Employer Duties
July, midday, 34 degrees in the shade - except there is no shade on the roof. Your crew is laying felt, the asphalt is giving off fumes, and you watch the lads…
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OSH by Construction Trade
Documentation, hazards and protective equipment for specific construction trades: painters, tilers, plumbers, electricians and plasterers.
Demolition Work: Safety Plan, Asbestos and Waste
A firm gets a job: demolish an old hall to make room for a new warehouse. The crew moves in with hammers, starts from the middle, cuts out whatever they can.
Trenches and Earthworks: OSH Rules & Documents
A foundation trench, two metres deep, vertical walls with no support at all. A worker climbs down to fix the formwork, and at that moment the wall slides in.
OSH for a Painting Company: Documents, PPE, Fumes
Painting looks calm. A roller, a brush, a bit of paint. But if you're in the trade, you know a painter does two things the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP)…
OSH for a Tiler & Floor-Layer: Silica, Knees, PPE
Tiling and floor-laying is the kind of work where you see the result fastest and see what settles in your lungs and knees slowest.
Plumber & Fitter OSH: Trenches, Confined Spaces
You install things. Water, gas, drainage, central heating. And you reckon occupational health and safety (OSH) is a fairy tale for bricklayers and the…
OSH for a Site Electrician: SEP & Safety
An electrician on a construction site is not the same electrician as in a flat. Here you've got wet ground, temporary rigs, scaffolding, generators, cables thrown…
OSH for a Plastering Company: Pump, Noise, Dust
Do you spray-plaster by machine? That means you've got a pressurised pump on site, hoses, noise, clouds of dust from the bags, and a crew working on platforms.
Work at Height OSH: The Documents PIP Checks
You fall off a ladder, off scaffolding, off the edge of a floor slab - and that's it. On a building site this is no abstraction.