Managing Health & Safety Risks (No. 7): Legionnaires’ disease

"Once is happenstance" Alastair Soane highlights the importance of identifying failure trends in order to help prevent future disasters.

This article considers the safety issues regarding both visitors to a construction site and staff employed full time on a site concerning vehicles.

All excavation work is potentially hazardous; the collapse of excavation faces can have serious consequences, both for life and purely as an economic loss.