HSE visits show that site safety has not improved

Would your site be found lacking if the HSE came to call?

HSE inspectors visited over 2,000 sites with nearly 3,000 contractors and whilst the majority showed employers taking responsibilities to their workers seriously, over 450 sites were given prohibition notices ordering them to stop work immediately until the situation was put right and fee for intervention costs would be incurred until the faults were resolved.

Examples of poor practice included a lack of edge protection on stairwells and scaffolding, unsafe storage of flammable materials, general poor order of site, poor standard of welfare facilities and inadequate personal protective equipment.

Hopefully, all of your Health and Safety requirements are completely up to scratch, but if there’s a chance that they’re not, then please see below a list of our most suited Health and Safety courses to the findings in this HSE report:

• Work at height
• Selection and use of harnesses
• Demolition awareness
• How to deliver effective toolbox talks
• PASMA tower scaffold use
• MEWP use
• Selection of MEWPS
• SSSTS
• SMSTS
• Face fitting if masks
• Temporary works supervisor
• Fire Marshall

For details of the courses, dates and prices please email john.woodward@demolishdismantle.co.uk