All Health & safety Articles

Barney Green, height safety advisor at Higher Safety discusses the correct choice and use of lanyards.

The Lift Safety Zone at ConExpo will be dedicated to those working with aerial work platforms or cranes.

Miller by Sperian has launched a new descender and lifting device that complies fully with the new EN 341:2008 standard.

A new six-day CCDO Demolition Managers' course has been unveiled by the National Demolition Training Group (NDTG), the training arm of the UK's National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC).

Honeywell is combining Sperian Protection with Honeywell Safety Products to form a single global personal protective equipment business. The combined business will be called Honeywell Safety Products and will continue to be part of the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions Life Safety business.

IPAF (the International Powered Access Federation) has won two awards for a safety video and a training kit that it produced with the aim of promoting best practice in the use of powered access equipment.

The EPF (Edge Protection Federation), a UK trade body dedicated to promoting high standards of collective edge protection, has joined the AIF (Access Industry Forum).

Spanish standards institute AENOR has started work on the new standard for training of mobile elevating work platform operators.

The Ladder Association, the trade body dedicated to promoting the safe use of ladders and stepladders, has launched a new information resource for users. Called LadderSolve, it sets out to provide simple, straightforward information about the proper use of ladders in the workplace.

The UK’s main scaffolding body the NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) said that many of the UK’s public authorities are failing to ensure that scaffolding installations meet national safety standards.

Skanska is one of top ten in the Nordic region at reporting carbon emissions.

Users of wire rope slings can take advantage of a free seminar on the subject in the UK

As part of the response to controversy surrounding rated capacity limiters in the new EN 13000:2010 European Standard, ESTA and FEM have issued a questionnaire surveying owners' experience with cranes delivered since 1 May 2010

The latest participant in the Global Rental Alliance’s international rental exchange programme has traveled from Australia to Canada for a month-long exchange.

Lampson International's international business director, Bryan Pepin-Donat, is the latest senior industry figure to confirm as a speaker at the inaugural China International Crane Summit in Shanghai on 22 November

A couple of times every year the question of bungee jumping from mobile cranes is raised. Is it allowed or not?

The American Rental Association (ARA) and its insurance arm ARA Insurance Services said their new delivery driver training programme would improve driver safety and cut rental business costs.

The AEM has released a completely updated safety manual that covers the use of hydraulic breakers used on carriers of all types

A powerful film is available from Outtakes Film Communications, which shows the devastating effects that a fall from height can have on the life of the victim and his family.