Tag: construction skills

Lifting operations bring risk to everyone within the swing radius and drop zone. A credible exclusion zone prevents people straying under suspended loads, keeps...

Striking a live cable or gas main remains one of the most avoidable causes of serious harm on UK sites. A robust permit-to-dig is...

Plant–people interface remains one of the hardest things to control on UK sites. Forklifts, dumpers, excavators and telehandlers move unpredictably, lines of sight are...

Small sites are where plant-pedestrian segregation is most likely to slip. Footprints are tight, trades stack on top of each other, and the pressure...

On paper, a permit to dig is tidy: plans checked, scan complete, method signed off. In reality, the last metre before a bucket, spade...

Hot work on live projects rarely happens in isolation. On a typical UK build there will be steel fixers, plumbers, roofers and fit-out trades...