Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The latest news from the Stone Industry
18 April 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Demonstrating a strong health & safety culture has become vital for companies as a result of the first conviction last month under the new corporate manslaughter law. Elizabeth Hyde, a Solicitor-...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The simplest way of making the workplace safer, both in the workshop and on-site, is often to improve materials handling. It can also improve your bottom lineThe construction industry employs about 4...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Until 11 March the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) are visiting building sites - especially small refurbishment sites – across the UK.The inspections are part of an intensive initiative...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
A new company is opening in London as Eco Friendly Tiles. They say sustainable sourcing, driven by legislation and opinion, is the future.They have already been invited to participate in the ‘...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Following consultation with specifiers and contractors, Stonehealth, the company that introduced the Jos stone cleaning system to the UK 20 years ago, are revising the criteria for companies to be on...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
A builder who sent his subbies to work on a site in Greater Manchester where there was no soap or hot water to wash with has been fined £400 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs.Michael...
23 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Ian Stanley Bond, owner of Stanley's Quarry in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, has been fined £5,000 with £8,790 costs as the result of a worker’s leg being crushed by stone...
8 March 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Hard landscapers Marshalls are actively working in India to provide children of migrant quarry workers with the opportunity to get an education.The first company in the hard landscaping industry to...
20 January 2011 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
A Solihull construction firm has been fined after one of its workers was burnt when his drill hit a power cable. The worker, who has asked not to be named, suffered severe burns from the resulting...
13 December 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
AN UNSECURED scaffolding board resulted in 55-year-old Peter Walton dieing after falling 5m in Altham near Accrington. As a result, Howorth Scaffolding Services Ltd and Glenmill Group (Developments)...
16 November 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The Health & Safety Executive want to improve conditions in masonry workshops. In a two-pronged initiative they are holding awareness days in workshops around the country and are targeting stone...
18 October 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The annual bare-back Palio horse race round a make-shift course in the central square of Siena in Italy is usually considered fairly dangerous, but has proved fatal to an Avignon councillor this year...
18 October 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
An architect’s practice and a construction company have been fined a total of £195,000 following the death of a sub-contractor who fell 9m on a Somerset development.Express Park...
14 September 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Alan Hind (pictured right), from Corrie Common near Lockerbie, is 28 and will spend the rest of his life with his sight, hearing and personality permanently affected as the result of head injuries...
14 September 2010 | Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
Work was stopped on almost one in five West Midlands construction sites visited as part of an intensive safety initiative in the area, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) reported in July.The...