As with much about the construction industry, finding the best Construction Safety Solutions is a matter of reputation as much as anything else. A support company may have the best accolades from as many awarding bodies as you like, but a couple of bad words from co-workers should make you think twice about using them. [...]
It’s important to note that Construction Fire Safety is a different aspect to many safety issues you might encounter on a construction site. The ability for a fire to catch and take hold, thus endangering lives, is a very different one to a falling hammer, for example. Making sure you are aware of the procedures surrounding Construction [...]
There are several levels of Construction Safety Manager, and they go right to the top. The chances are that the person right at the pinnacle of the equation hasn’t had any direct construction experience, so in that respect, they’re amongst the worst qualified to make decisions. That would apply if they worked in isolation, but [...]
How much do you know about Construction Safety Nets? Do you work at heights? Some of us love it, and others hate it but we all need to know that the net below us will catch us if we happen to fall. Falling from heights is one of the most common occurrences in any construction [...]
Appropriate Construction Safety Clothing is a vital part of any health and safety activities on your building site. If we fail to correctly implement any personal protective clothing regulations, we put ourselves at a very high risk of accident and injury in the workplace. Simply supplying correct Construction Safety Clothing is not nearly enough to [...]
Obviously, as people involved in the construction industry, Construction Safety Certification is hugely important to all of us. If you don’t have the appropriate certificates, and therefore training, you put yourself and your colleagues at risk. Indeed, without Construction Safety Certification, you put everyone involved at risk – not just from accidents, but from litigation [...]
New building regulations dictate that Construction Safety Cards are essential for anyone working on a building site. Without the CSCS (Construction Services Certification Scheme) Card, you are effectively unable to access any construction area in the UK, as most contractors require them as proof of competence in a specific area. This is becoming increasingly important [...]
First of all, what exactly is a Construction Health and Safety Plan? It is basically a plan prepared before construction work is started to help avert accidents or disasters in the construction site. In a Construction Health and Safety Plan, hazards are identified, assessed, controlled, and possibly eliminated in a process that is referred to [...]
As we all know, construction industry is one of those naturally risky jobs. Thus, construction safety plan must be made by the contractor which is not only for a reading and documentation material for compliance purposes, but it must be implemented and be put into action as soon as possible. Consequently, any corporation or company [...]
