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News Item: Productivity Rises as Major Construction Sites Return to Work
Contractors report that around 97% of infrastructure and construction sites are now operating, up from 93% a fortnight ago. According to a survey of firms by trade body Build UK output is now starting to rise slowly as firms get to grips with 2m distancing and safer working practices.
June 15, 2020
News Item: HSE Produce New Guidance on the Thorough Examination and Testing of Equipment During Coronavirus Outbreak
The Health Safety Executive (HSE) has produced new guidance which follows lobbying from Hire Association Europe (HAE), Build UK and International Powered Access Federation (IPAF). Lobbying from industry groups illustrated concerns that it may not be easy or possible to get safety testing certificates renewed while the country is still in partial lockdown.
June 11, 2020
News Item: Nationwide Platforms Introduces SkyShield (TM)
Nationwide Platforms has introduced its latest innovation in safety, SkyShield, which has been designed to minimise the risks of COVID-19 when installed on its range of truck mounted platforms.
News Item: Manufacturing Company Fined after Worker Fatally Injured
IFG Drake Ltd. has been fined after a worker suffered fatal crush injuries whilst working on a machine at the site in Huddersfield.
News Item: Milestone JCB Meal Served as Food Aid Initiative Enters Final Month
JCB's 'Food for our Communities' initiative today hit a massive milestone as company chefs served up the 25,000th meal for those in need in Staffordshire.
News Item: HAE Insurance Services Expands Team
HAE EHA Insurance Services have been theinsurance provider of choice for more than 20 years. Our dedicated team has recently expanded, now with more colleagues around the country our team has never been bigger! Were now in a much better position to provide regional support in the same way HAE do.
June 5, 2020
News Item: Lighting Tower Specialists, The Trime Group, Partner with Caterpillar
The Trime Group, one of the world's leading innovators of sustainable site lighting towers, has been appointed as an approved supplier by the construction equipment and rental giant Caterpillar, under their 'Cat Allied Vendor' programme.
June 3, 2020
News Item: Cough Guard that Clips on to Hard Hat
Hard-hat supplier JSP has come up with a cough guard specifically for construction workers, to stop them catching infections like Covid-19.
News Item: Company Fined £1.1m After Worker Injured in Fall from Height
A London-based relocation and refurbishment company has been fined after a worker was seriously injured when he fell from height.
News Item: Europe's Largest IPAF Provider Resumes Training
Nationwide Platforms has reopened a number of its training centres after ittemporarily suspended IPAF training services as a result of COVID-19.
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