UCATT votes to join Unite
UCATT conference has today (May 18th) voted for a merger or transfer of engagements to Unite the Union. The union made the decision in order to preserve its existing structures…
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Plumber pretended to be GAS SAFE to service boilers
A Darlington man has been jailed for carrying out illegal gas work on three occasions. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard Neil Simon McKimm (trading as Macs Plumbing Services) carried out gas…
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Vertical Lift Bridge under construction collapses over Manchester Ship Canal
A major structural collapse has occurred on the site of deck of a major vertical lifting bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal near the Barton Bridge on the M60, the moving…
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CITB launches new CDM app free to download
All small builders out there know that health and safety is critical to their business and lack of planning and paperwork can be bad news if an accident happens on…
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New home builders pledge to increase output
The Home Builder Federation has managed to encourage major players in the house building sector to raise the output of new homes in the UK after months of negotiations with…
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Hard a hat colors to identify workers by their safety qualifications
The construction industry has long tried and failed to standardise the hard hat color for workers by their skills color coding will be introduced all sites that have signed up for…
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CITB new fund for Trailblazers in Apprenticeships
CITB has launched a new fund to support employers investing in higher Trailblazer Apprenticeships. The Trailblazer Apprenticeship Fund, which opened yesterday, will offer grants to employers training apprentices at levels…
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Constructions big 8 pay out £80 million to blacklisted workers
Some of the country’s biggest contractors have agreed to hand out an estimated £80m in compensation to blacklisted workers, equating to an average individual payout of £65,000 to each of the 771…
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Balfour Beatty fined £2.6 m after worker killed in trench collapse
A company has been fined £2.6 million after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him in Lancashire. James Sim, a 32-year-old worker, from Barry,…
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Worker dies in fall from roof
A Birmingham maintenance company has been fined after a worker died as a result of falling from the roof of a five-storey building. Birmingham Crown Court heard how H20 Plumbing…
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