The Dry Stone Walling Association calendar for 2020 can be bought from the organisation's website.
30 people died in the construction industry in 2018-19, half of them as a result of falling from height.
£600,000 fine for HAVS offences.
Another company where employees were not protected from vibration that led to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) has been prosecuted by HSE.
Annette Godfrey with slabs of Ceralsio and CRL Quartz in her new role as European Marketing Manager for American company CR Laurence at its European headquarters near Manchester.
The UK arm of American company CR Laurence, which includes CRL Stone, has appointed Annette Godfrey as European Marketing Manager.
Saw blades from Zambelis are now colour coded so it is easier to identify the one you need for the material you are using.
Dimitri Zambelis, who gives his name to the machinery, tools and consumables supplier D Zambelis in Essex, used to work in the marble industry.
David Willett's Big Issue vendor in magnesian limestone will be making its way on to York Minster - without the sunglasses and headphones.
The Big Issue magazine and a depiction of one of the homeless people it helps support is making its way on to York Minster.
Tom Parker is the new Chairman of Pavestone while Krystal Williams becomes Managing Director of the landscape division.
The Health & Safety Executive has updated its guidance on hand-arm vibration and its vibration calculator spreadsheet.
Lorenzo Palmeri's 'Gerico' hit the right note with the Icon judges in Verona.
Credit: Digitalmovie for Marmomac 2019
With its quarry restoration programmes the minerals extraction industry makes a significant contribution to biodiversity in the UK, as these award-winning projects demonstrate. On the left is Aggregate Industries' Ripon City Quarry and on the right Tarmac's Broom Quarry.
SigmaRoc is buying what is said to be the largest Belgium Blue limestone quarry.
Arrests follow CITB raids on HS&E test centres. Staff are suspected of taking money for giving candidates, some illegal immigrants in modern slavery, the right answers to enable them to work on UK construction sites.
D Zambelis has started colour coding its blades to indicate their use. They are (left to right): Stellar, for natural quartzites and engineered quartz; Sapphire, for clean, single pass cutting of granite on saws with motors under 12hp the motor life; Platinum, an everyday blade for granite and engineered stone on saws above 12hp; Emerald, for marble and limestone; Rosso, for all synthetic sintered stones (Dekton, Lapitec, Neolith and the rest) and Porcelain.
A new website for trade in used machinery.
Alan Hamilton and his son-in-law, Adam Main, in the company’s offices, where detailed stone cutting schedules are drawn up from clients’ designs using Alphacam CAD/CAM software.
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