William Davis holds health and safety lessons

Loughborough-based William Davis has embarked on a series of ‘Health and Safety on Sites’ initiatives in schools local to the company’s current developments.The latest school to benefit from one of these initiatives is Alder Coppice Primary School, Sedgley in West Midlands where Dan Platten, William Davis’s Health & Safety Advisor, recently launched a poster campaign [...]

Health & safety spending down

Government spending on health and safety has fallen almost 10% in the past two years, as the number of construction fatalities hit its highest level for five years.
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QPA health and safety best practice awards 2008 now live and online

Scheme open to Members and Non-Members via www.safequarry.com
The QPA, the principal trade body for the quarry products sector, has launched entry process for the 2008 Health and Safety Best Practice Awards. With the Awards Ceremony taking place on 17 October this year, the next few months will see companies from across the quarry products sector [...]

25 Ways to cure Anxiety Symptoms

The following advice will help you deal with your Anxiety symptoms, symptoms of anxiety, or any other anxiety atack symptoms!

Jam miniature marshmallows up your nose and sneeze them out. See how many you can do at once.
Use your MasterCard to pay your Visa and vice-versa.
Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on.
When someone says “Have [...]

Insurance claims

The following are actual statements found on insurance forms where car drivers attempted to summarize the details of an accident in the fewest possible words.
This should serve as a warning to people out there as an example of how varied and many different dangers there are in the world!
Coming home I drove into the [...]

Bricklayer Safety

Had this guy died, he’d have walked away with a Darwin Award for sure. This is a true story, and was featured in a safety report.
“Dear Sir,
I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Section 3 of the accident report form. I put “Poor planning” as the cause of my accident. [...]

Glastonbury Guide – Health and safety

Health Stuff
You can help prevent stomach illnesses and bugs by practising some basic hygiene; washing your hands after visiting the loos, and before eating or preparing food.
They’ll be medical staff at various places on the site if you need medical attention. Don’t try to make your way off site to hospital – this may result [...]

Earthquake felt across much of UK

The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of the country. People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales, felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.
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Horror as roofer plunges to death

A 48-year-old roofer has died after a horrific fall from scaffolding on a building site.
Martin Livingstone was airlifted to hospital on Monday after he fell about 15 metres at the building site in Burgess Hill.
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HSE issues working at height warning

The UK’s Health & Safety Executive (HSE), is warning employers to ensure that they have safe systems of work in place when working at height.
The warning follows the HSE’s prosecution of two companies based in Hertfordshire and Hackney after a worker suffered a serious head injury when he fell approximately 2.2 metres.
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