Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The latest news from the Stone Industry
A photograph taken by an HSE Inspector of the Navkaar site in Blackpool where workers lives were put at risk.
Company fined £1million with more than £100,000 costs after a worker was crushed to death by an excavator.
Photo: HSE
A picture of the site toilet taken by the HSE Inspector.
A man's leg was crushed beneath the 1.7tonne staircase when it fell. The leg had to be amputated just below the groin.
Respirable crystalline silica is a slow, long-term killer. The HSE is trying to stop workers being exposed to it.
The pub where a worker fell from a scaffold tower suffering life changing injuries.
Ieuan Rees talking to the BBC having gone viral on YouTube.
The three Lupu brothers imprisoned for running a modern slavery ring on construction sites in London and the South East of England.
A photograph taken by an HSE Inspector at GO Stonemasonry.
The board being used as a ladder to access the attic from which the electrician fell into the stairwell below.
The scaffold from which the timber fell and hit a 3-year-old girl.
Uninsured employees working six metres off the ground without any safety measures and exposed to respirable silica dust because their employer wanted to save money.
Ignoring risks of vibration injuries to employees is getting more expensive, but it is only one of the risks this person is exposed to. He has no protection against the high silica content stone dust and petrochemical resin dust from cutting this quartz slab, which he is doing in the direction away from the waterwall, sending the dust out into the workshop. There is no guard on the angle grinder and debris on the floor constitutes a trip hazard.