A Cheshire building contractor, Phillip Affleck, has been fined for serious health breaches and lack of welfare facilities on a Culcheth building site. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard that the Health…
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A Cheshire builder has been sentenced after pleading guilty to multiple health and safety issues at a site in Altrincham where he was carrying out a shop conversion into three…
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A national interiors fit-out company Newman Scott, previously prosecuted by the health and safety regulator, is calling on their construction colleagues to act now in improving standards and reduce the…
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A mother and her young son were put at risk of suffering carbon monoxide poisoning for seven years at their home in Ashton-under-Lyne, a court has heard. The woman’s landlord,…
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An international construction firm has been sentenced after admitting multiple safety issues at a Manchester site where it was carrying out a shop refurbishment. Betcat International Limited is based in…
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The idiots on ladders competition has finished and they are worthy winners as we can see the winner received nearly 60% more votes than its two joint runners-up. It shows…
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Roland Couzens, 67, from Macclesfield, left workers on his site without hot water for three months and was prosecuted by the HSE after it emerged bricklayers, plasterers and a roofer…
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The HSE has been carrying out a a concentrated two-week period of proactive inspections of building sites and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) demanded improvements on many building sitee, and…
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A construction operative breaks leg in trench collapse after sudden gush of water Paul Fennelly, then aged 45 from Hamilton, was working for Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd, trading as Morrison…
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