Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The latest news from the Stone Industry
A picture taken of Walltopia's men on a roof. It cost the company a £500,000 fine.
£120,000 fine for firm after worker sprains ankles.
Unicef says India has 200,000 children working in quarries, many unpaid to pay off family debt. Stone Federation Great Britain intends to make ethical trading a condition of membership.
This is Stephen Thurgood-Perry, an Applications Engineer with Air Control Industries, in one of the company’s personal cleaning booths, where dust is blown off clothes and extracted through the floor of the booth.
Britain is safe and getting safer as a place to work, although there were two more deaths in the past year than the year before.
Avoid power cables when working on scaffolding.
Companies are warned to make sure all lifting gear is regularly checked and serviced.
Jane Buxey, Chief Executive of Stone Federation Great Britain, with Ian Smart from the Health & Safety Executive during the SHAD at Schlüter in April.
Kailash with his Nobel Peace Prize.
People die when the walls of excavations are not supported.
HSE warns companies to assess the risks properly when using a grab to lift a slab of stone.
The scene that confronted an HSE Inspector when he went through the front door. He brought the work to an immediate end.
A scene that confronted an HSE Inspector at one site. There is a man working at the bottom of this hole with unsupported walls. You can read the story here.
The hoist that became detached at Leicester last year – photo by Alex Hannam.