Managing Health and Safety Risks (No. 24): Musculoskeletal injuries

A cross party parliamentary report published last year concluded that “the problem of late payments is getting worse” and that, for the construction industry, the situation was particularly bad. Browne Jacobson’s Peter Westlake provides more details.

Based on an article originally published in The New Yorker, Sean Brady reflects on the Citicorp tower crisis.

Transport-related accidents are the second largest cause of injury in the workplace after falls from height. Every year in the UK, around 50 people are killed and 2000 seriously injured in such incidents in and around construction sites and other workplaces. This article considers the safety issues regarding both visitors to a construction site and staff employed full time on a site.