The following are posts from April 2011:
23 April 2011
The Construction Enquirer reports that Mace has asked its subcontractors to submit monthly performance reports detailing carbon use on its sites. They are being told to record information about water, waste and diesel use. This will be fed into the Credit 360 Platform programme currently being used by clients like British Land. This is very interesting as more and more clients are concerned about...
[Read on about Monitoring of Carbon Use by Subcontractors]
22 April 2011
We have read that Network Rail has now revealed plans for the complete overhaul of London Bridge station over five years. Together with resignalling works and on-going Thameslink improvements, the scale of investment will soar to £800m around the busy London station site. The plans include a new concourse that is bigger than the pitch at Wembley, which will sit underneath the tracks. It is good t...
[Read on about London Bridge Station Rebuild]
21 April 2011
The SHP (Safety & Health Practitioner) reports that the Department for Work and Pensions has published further details of the draft terms of reference that will govern the independent review of health and safety legislation announced last month. The main aims are to consider the opportunities for reducing the burden of health and safety legislation on UK businesses while maintaining the progress...
[Read on about Health & Safety Review to look at Regulations & Compensation]
8 April 2011
SHP reports that the number of deaths in the construction industry rose by around 15 per cent last year, fuelling concerns that the cost-cutting measures being implemented by the HSE will reverse the downward trend of recent years. The regulator's head of construction, Philip White, revealed the increase at a conference in London on April 5th on Safety Schemes in Procurement, indicating that comp...
[Read on about Construction Deaths Rise As Cuts Come In]
6 April 2011
4 April 2011
We are currently in a three month period of consultation on proposed changes to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. Changes to RIDDOR were recommended in Lord Young's report on health and safety published last year, which among other issues contained a proposal to increase the threshold for reporting workplace injuiries to seven days. The cons...
[Read on about RIDDOR Changes - Chance to Respond]
