Safety and wellbeing have become even more urgent issues following recent survey results showing that 59% of contractors, suppliers and clients worry about the increasing injury and fatality impact of drug and alcohol abuse on and around UK construction sites, says Jon Herbert. A survey (29 June 2016) carried out by the non-profit-making Considerate Constructors   Read More …

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is generally designed to work when all other risk mitigation measures have failed. However, in the not-so-distant future PPE could be part of the frontline defence against physical hazards as digital technology kicks in, explains Jon Herbert. Imagine clothing that switches off dangerous rotating, cutting or pressing equipment before you get   Read More …

Be very worried! Every five years, the Government is obliged under the Climate Change Act 2008 to plan how the UK will adapt to current and future climate change risks. The next assessment, and what we must and can do about it, is due in January 2017. As Jon Herbert discovers, floods, wrecked transport, power,   Read More …