Final stages of Archaeology Investigations in progress at one of our new projects, based in Sheffield.
Collaton Safety are excited to be working with our new client, Future Generation, who aim to deliver 10,000 bed student accommodation over the next 5 years.
Collaton Safety have been appointed to act as Principal Designer ... Read More
Principal Designer & CDM Consultants from the South West
Good progress is being made at International House in Birmingham. The installation of the G-Brick has now commenced and is starting to take shape. The project is due to complete this summer with the Students moving in from September 2018.
Collaton Safety have acted as Principal Designer and a H&S consultant ... Read More
Good progress being made on Newgate Street in Newcastle. McAleer & Rushe continue to display excellent levels of safety on the site.
Demolition works have now commenced on the existing nightclub which will be replaced with a 35 storey student accommodation tower block containing 573 beds for Unite Students. The ground floor will be used for commercial space... Read More
Civil engineering company R M Contractors Limited (RMC), and a contractor working on behalf of tree surgery company Complete Tree Services (CTS) have been sentenced after a member of the public was injured by fencing wire.
Redditch Magistrates’ Court heard a member of the public was in her garden, when she ... Read More
Collaton Safety are currently undertaking site inspections on a new Unite student accommodation building in Durham. This 363 bed site is a particularly interesting project as it involved the demolition of part of an existing hospital dating back to 1853. The site is currently being run by Bowmer & Kirkland.
G&S Roofing Ltd has been fined for safety failings related to working at height in August 2016.
Numerous concerns were raised by members of the public about work being carried out by the company, which twice ignored written advice to address the issue of working at height in an unsafe manner.
Brighton ... Read More
A worker operating a foot pedal saw came into contact with the rotating blade, suffering a severed hand and wrist which needed surgical intervention to reattach.
Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard that an investigation by the HSE into the 2016 incident found that Pipework Engineering Services Limited (PESL) had failed to install ... Read More
When we talk about health and safety at work, with particular emphasis on understanding the importance of it, conversation quickly turns to the ‘human’ element behind it.
For instance, our thoughts are dominated by statistics like these (taken from the HSE website):
3 million working people ... Read More
UK companies paid £6.1 million in health and safety fines in 2016. That’s a rise of 148% on fines paid in 2015, according to BLM’s health and safety tracker.
The insurance law and risk law firm, BLM, has found that the average pay-out had risen to £211,000 – four times the ... Read More