UK Safety professionals are urging the government to end its obsession with deregulating health and safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze. More than 70 organisations and figures…
Read articleThe English government has directed local authorities and social housing landlords to run tests on any cladding on their tower blocks that has a composite core. Tower block landlords have…
Read articleHospitalisation of 11 workers adds to the pressure on the Dublin plant The hospitalisation of 11 workers following a major incident at Dublin’s new waste incinerator at Poolbeg forced the…
Read articleA Scottish groundworks contractor company has been fined after a worker fell more than seven metres through a fragile roof. Stranraer Sheriff Court heard how a 42-year-old man had been…
Read articleA Polish road worker has died after he was crushed by a machine in south Armagh. The accident happened as the man, who was working as a contractor, was laying…
Read articleA Glasgow construction company has been heavily fined after a pensioner managed to stray onto one of its sites and drowned in an excavated pit. Kirkcaldy Sherriff Court heard that…
Read articleFarmer pulled into haybob and ‘thrown out other side’ when attempting to clear blockage A man in his 60s was airlifted to hospital on Saturday after he became trapped in…
Read articleFarmers seeking more help for difficult jobs on the land may be key to reducing the numbers of accidents and deaths in the country’s most dangerous workplaces, experts have warned.…
Read article[rev_slider fc] CGA would like to thank all Dublin Fire Service for organising the 2017 Fire Chiefs Association Conference. We set up a stand to demonstrate the work we…
Read articleCalmer wind conditions in Co Galway have assisted efforts to bring under control a major fire which has already destroyed more than a third of Ireland’s largest forest. Air Corps…
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