Search Results: 'Health & Safety Executive'

Person in hospital and works stopped after incident at HS2 vent shaft
30 August, 2023
An HS2 worker remains in hospital after five people were injured at a vent shaft site on Saturday.

Action urged on silica
18 March, 2020
Great Britain – The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Respiratory Health has urged the Government to take action to prevent silica from taking more lives in the UK. The group, together with the not-for-profit group Building and Civil Engineering (B&CE), has released a joint report called ‘Silica – the next asbestos?’ to examine the danger posed by respirable crystalline silica (RCS).

HSE issues welding warning
25 February, 2020
Great Britain – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a reminder that companies must protect their workers from the risks from welding fume. The HSE is undergoing a programme of inspections following a February 2019 safety alert. New evidence showed that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause cancer.

Stakeholders reject working conditions as cause of Bond Street deaths
10 October, 2019
Great Britain – Two workers on Crossrail’s Bond Street project passed away in their sleep in the same week. Various media have reported that working conditions relating to air quality or stress were to blame, but this has been rejected by stakeholders. Reports of further investigation, or further details of the illness were not forthcoming from the contractor or client.

HSE to assume ‘no comment is assent’ on exposure limits
25 January, 2018
International - All European countries are being faced with implementing lower exposure limits for a number of hazardous substances in August this year. The two substances of most interest to tunnellers are nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide found in diesel engine exhaust and blasting fume.

Contractor fined for Crossrail incidents
02 August, 2017
Great Britain - The Bam Ferrovial Kier (BFK) joint venture has been fined GBP 1M for three health and safety incidents on London’s Crossrail project, one of which involved the death of a worker.

Britain launches segmental lining code of practice
20 April, 2016
GREAT BRITAIN – A specification for the design of concrete segmental linings was launched in mid-April. The document, “Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 8810:2016 – Tunnel Design: Design of concrete segmental linings: Code of practice” was produced by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and lead technical author Arup.

Crossrail worker killed
07 March, 2014
A worker has died on the Crossrail project in London. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after London Fire Brigade and ambulance crews arrived at the Fisher Street site in Holborn at around 05:40 this morning.

Worker injured in London tunnel
30 January, 2013
A construction worker has suffered head and shoulder injuries at a National Grid site in north London yesterday morning, local news reports revealed today. The 24-year-old man was taken to hospital from the site near Haringey where National Grid are tunnelling as part of the London Power Tunnels project.

UK Health and Safety Executive cost recovery scheme delayed
03 April, 2012
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) did not implement its new cost recovery scheme at the start of April as planned.

NATM?safety in soft ground questioned
02 November, 2011

Vibration deadline at 100
24 August, 2011

Hochtief fined over Glendoe fatality
13 January, 2011

Costain fined after tunnel accident
12 September, 2005

Tesco tunnel partial collapse in UK
23 August, 2005

Work on Strood halted following accident
22 March, 2004

Nishimatsu's £1M blowout
01 February, 2004

London Tunnels breakthrough
01 January, 2004

CTRL restart
01 May, 2003

UK first on CTRL breakthrough
02 April, 2003