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The Dry Stone Walling Association calendar for 2020 can be bought from the organisation's website.
Most companies producing sandstone masonry in the UK understand the risk from silica dust and take appropriate precautions. The same is not always true in the worktop market, especially outside the factory environment when fixing.
Is it safe? HSE will visit dimensional stone quarries in the new year to see if its guidelines on bridge saw safety are being followed.
£600,000 fine for HAVS offences.
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.
Saw blades from Zambelis are now colour coded so it is easier to identify the one you need for the material you are using.
David Willett's Big Issue vendor in magnesian limestone will be making its way on to York Minster - without the sunglasses and headphones.
The construction industry is getting behind a new scheme designed to simplify and strengthen the construction prequalification process.
30 people died in the construction industry in 2018-19, half of them as a result of falling from height.
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.