Construction Site Dangers

A property developer was fined £10,000 last week for operating an unsafe construction site.

The developer had been ordered by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to stop work on three occasions after inspections revealed open edges aound foundations which employees could have easily fallen into. There were also dangerous amounts of rubble left lying around the site and unsafe scaffolding, including missing guard rails

You’re Hired! But are you Safe at Work?

Lord Sugar returned to our screens last night in typically bullish mood as he began another search for The Apprentice. It is hoped that the lucky candidate can look forward to a successful career working in safe surroundings, but sadly that is not always the case for all of the estimated 200,000 apprentices currently training in the UK.