Construction Infonet is a free e-Bulletin from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to provide a regular update on health and safety issues for all in the construction industry.
HSEs new cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), will come into force on Monday, 1 October.
Under The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012, those who break health and safety laws are liable for recovery of HSE’s related costs, including inspection, investigation and taking enforcement action.
The Fee for Intervention hourly rate for 2012/13 is £124. The many businesses that comply with their legal obligations will continue to pay nothing.
Fee for Intervention – what you need to know
Guidance on the application of Fee for Intervention
From 1 September to 30 November 2012 anyone who buys, uses or has the responsibility of supervising the use of ladders, can take advantage of this year's campaign which enables 'dodgy' ladders to be replaced for brand new ones - at a preferential price - at any of the Ladder Exchange's official partners.
Please visit the Ladder Exchange for more details.
The free National Construction Adviceline for the Construction Industry helps employers, managers, contractors and employees to address the issue of ill health, minimise the impact of worker illness, and provide essential support to workers with health issues.
Call the National Construction Adviceline for free on 0845 873 7726 in order to get advice on:
developing a working culture where illness is less likely to occur.
mprove the health and safety of your business by attending a health and safety event near you. Most of the Working Well Together (WWT) events we list are FREE and all provide an opportunity to meet like-minded people, see interesting new equipment and get confidential advice.
Find your nearest WWT Group and get involved.
Places are available at the following Working Well Together (WWT) events.
Plus many more WWT events over the forthcoming year
National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) guidance:
Read details of some recent HSE prosecutions and enforcement action in the construction sector and find sources of relevant advice.
5 September 2012 - A Darlington contractor has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £3,000 costs after a worker fell 6-7 metres from a house roof. The worker has been left severely brain damaged, in a vegetative state, with no likelihood of improvement.
7 September 2012 - A Leicestershire house builder has been fined £6,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1,836 after two self-employed bricklayers fell more than two metres from a scaffold.
13 September 2012 - Bridgend firm has been fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £4,181 in costsafter a teenage worker plunged nearly six metres through a fragile roof at a children's activity centre.
17 September 2012 - A Monmouth roof refurbishment company has been fined a total of £10,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,500 after an employee was injured in a six-metre fall from the roof of a house in Cirencester.
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20 September 2012 - A Redhill-based construction company has been ordered to pay £210,000 in fines and costs after an employee died following an explosion on a construction site in central London. The explosion occurred following damage to an 11,000 volt live cable within an excavation.
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13 September 2012 - The director of a Bromley firm has been prosecuted by HSE after removing asbestos without a licence and deceiving the householders by providing a doctored air test saying the room was safe to re-enter.
The director was given six months' prison sentence on each charge, to run concurrently and suspended for two years; 300 hours' unpaid community service; given an electronic curfew between 9pm and 6am for three months; ordered to pay £11,340 to the affected Residents' Association in Camden and ordered to pay £10,160 costs.
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