Taking control of hazardous substances
Health and safety should be a core part of any business and not something you do once and file away on a shelf – it...
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Health and Safety through NEBOSH
An ex oil industry worker who arrived in this country with international H&S qualifications, and is now engaged with civil construction, talks about workplace safety...
And after all – we are only ordinary men
By Wayne Scott, CEO, Mining Extractives Health and Safety Council I PLAY THE SAXOPHONE in my spare time. You may know one of the classic...
Roger McRae: The ConstructSafe Champion
The Construction Safety Council is ramping up its activities, especially the ConstructSafe programme, under its new chairman Roger McRae. Hugh de Lacy catches up with...
Aggregate matters and concerns
High failure rates for B Grade quarry qualifications are a symptom of wider issues within the quarry industry which it is determined to address as...
Mark Pizey at the coalface of health and safety
He had a job that nobody could envy in an organisation going down the tubes, but Mark Pizey survived two tumultuous upheavals at state-owned collier...
CANZ 2016: A conference to remember
ALAN TITCHALL has covered literally hundreds of conferences in his journalism career but says the 2016 Crane Association Conference and Trade Show (CANZ) will be...
Malcolm McWhannell: Labouring for Others
For many years, after the humblest of starts, Malcolm McWhannell has undertaken a formidable workload for the betterment of the crane industry. By GAVIN RILEY....
Working out whether you are a ‘quarry operator’
MinEx, the national Health & Safety Council for the minerals industry, has worked out a clever, online flowchart that has been adapted from a...
Quarry definitions: new flowchart resource
A new Flowchart Resource has been developed to assist relevant industries in understanding their potential obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment Act...