Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The latest news from the Stone Industry
Silica dust from cutting stone, engineered quartz and concrete can be a killer. HSE will be visiting construction sites in October and November to make sure you are getting it right.
This is a picture of a young man in a small British worktop fabrication factory cutting a piece of engineered quartz. It is not staged. He is not wearing a mask and although there is a water wall it is behind him as he sends RCS out into the workshop. Conditions like this are leading to silicosis among people employed in making worktops. It is becoming a growing concern around the world.
HSE is running a HAVS refresher course at the HSE training centre at Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire, on 2 October. You can book your place(s) here.
Pictured above is a mason using a pneumatic chisel. All power tools pose a potential vibration risk to the user and companies that ignore the risk are facing severe penalties when prosecuted as well as leaving themselves vulnerable to compensation claims and subsequent rises in insurance premiums.
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
All power tools pose a potential vibration risk and companies that ignore that risk are facing severe penalties when prosecuted as well as leaving themselves vulnerable to compensation claims and subsequent rises in insurance premiums.
A picture of the site toilet taken by the HSE Inspector.
Pictures taken by the HSE Inspector at The Solid Surface Shop UK Ltd in Sheffield. The company ignored five Improvement Notices to tackle health & safety issues, including dust and vibration injury exposure.
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.
