UCATT are at loggerheads with major contractor Laing O’Rourke’s over its policies which amount to backdoor blacklisting. Steve Dillon, Regional Secretary for UCATT Scotland held a meeting with Trevor Donoghue,…
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A Derbyshire based engineering construction company has been prosecuted after a worker fell and suffered severe injuries. A worker was repairing a fibreboard roof of a barn and using two…
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67 people have been killed and many more injured at a power plant in China during construction works, the latest deadly number of industrial accident the country which has poor…
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Laing O’Rourke is to sell 11 mobile cranes from its Select Plant arm which will be transferred to Ainscough boosting its fleet of mobile cranes. The operators some 16 in number…
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As previously reported by nationaltradesmen.co.uk that Hewdens was in dire straights the plant hirer called in administrators from Ernst and Young on Tuesday after losing its fight for survival weighed down by a massive…
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A rigger has been killed after falling while installing fall rest lines on pylons, Bilfinger Industrial Services (UK) Limited has been sentenced following the death of a worker who fell…
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Hewdens one of the largest plant hire companies in the UK is seeking new investment after it has been revealed that post Brexit trading conditions have damaged the company further…
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Build UK Members Impacted by Industry’s Skills Challenges Results of the third State of Trade survey for 2016 show that whilst Build UK members’ workloads rose following the EU referendum,…
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A company, its director, and a self-employed contractor have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), after Terry Lewis (a 65 year old retired mechanic) was fatally injured…
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UCATT is calling on the construction industry to introduce long-overdue extreme weather health and safety guidelines for construction workers. The industry is blighted by the inhumanity of the industry towards…
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