HSE issue scaffold safety alert

The HSE has issued a safety alert to the construction industry following the major scaffolding collapse in at Jurys Inn, Milton Keynes on 11 April.

The warning aims to alert those working on similar projects to the importance of their arrangements to provide and maintain stable scaffolds. The HSE recommends that those arrangements are reviewed regularly and that reviews take account of factors which include, but are not limited to:


scaffolding design implementation;
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