The Australian Roads Research Board has launched a series of ‘Best Practice’ guides, to help local councils create and maintain safer roads. The latest Guide is on Safe Road Infrastructure,...
The Toowoomba Magistrates Court has fined the contractor for allowing unrestricted access to the scaffolding, whilst parts of the bottom of the scaffolding were missing or unsecured. Some posts and...
Hard hats now available with Mips multi-directional impact protection. British hard-hat manufacturer Centurion Safety Products has added a new level of protection to its Nexus helmet. Centurion Safety Products has...
The UK government is setting up a new regulatory body to oversee the safety of construction materials. The construction products regulator will be a division of the Office for Product...
Coventry City Council in the UK has ordered a new type of vibration-measuring glove for its highway crews. The HAV-Sentry glove has been developed by Feraru Dynamics to protect wearers...
Look carefully and you may start to see strange little metal geometrical gizmos on the back of Amey’s (Amey plc in the UK) highway maintenance vehicles. That’s to stop lorries...
A worker aged in his 50’s has passed away suddenly after a crane load fell unexpectedly on a site at Rozelle. A marine site at James Craig Rd was swiftly...
Trials are to be carried out of a system that assesses the stability of electricity poles by hitting them with a hammer and measuring the resulting vibrations. SP Energy Networks...
Scottish trade association Select has launched an awareness campaign stressing the fatal consequences of not isolating safely during electrical work. Running under the banner ‘Work dead safely: Stay alive’, the...
VR technology helps improve pedestrian safety In a new research project from the University of South Australia (UniSA), planned upgrades to roads and pedestrian areas will be simulated using virtual...