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It鈥檚 not hard to spot the danger in this safety blunder photo taken in Panama
James Waddy took this picture 鈥榓t rush hour in Panama鈥� - not a time and place we鈥檇 want to be resting a ladder on live cables. He says: 鈥楢t least someone was there to foot the ladder鈥︹��
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
William Burkitt of Stiles Harold Williams Partnership sent this picture of a man who has obviously decided that one ladder is not enough
鈥淣ot only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,鈥� notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
Everyone says an inclusive organisation is important, but too few people聽are ready to invest the time and money to make it so. That has to change, says Marsha Ramroop
Challenges persist but the industry appears to have turned a corner and the outlook has notably improved since last year, says聽Nick Gray of Currie & Brown聽
The recent extension to the UK鈥檚 acceptance of the European CE mark offers an overdue opportunity to drive the construction products industry towards increased safety, performance and trade, says Peter Caplehorn of the Construction Products Association
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