All Safety blunders articles – Page 20

  • rooftop danger
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    Alone on the rooftops

    2008-02-19T13:45:00Z

    The archilles will be sore if he walks up a pitched roof like that

  • bricks wedged under support
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    Don't look down

    2008-02-18T12:40:00Z

    This looks much worse when you see what's keeping the access tower level

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    One of Gaudí’s little jokes …

    2008-02-15T00:01:00Z

    Thanks to Keith Fuell who took this photo of a worker at the great architect’s Casa Casa Batlló in Barcelona.

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    I'm on the phone!

    2008-02-14T12:36:00Z

    Standing on a public phone box is certainly a novel way to access overhead wire cables...

  • South East Asia scaffolding
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    Temple of doom

    2008-02-13T07:05:00Z

    Risk taking on an enormous scale in South East Asia

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    Watch your back!

    2008-02-12T11:20:00Z

    A hot day on a roof, with no T-shirt, no ladder, no edge protection - this cannot be good...

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    Mon Dieu!

    2008-02-11T13:54:00Z

    Now surely that is an elaborate, not to mention somewhat dangerous, contraption to have on a Parisian roof?

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    Great safety breakthroughs of our time

    2008-02-08T00:04:00Z

    Thanks to David Bright, who witnessed this state-of-the-art job in Henley-on-Thames.

  • sausages on BBQ
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    When is a sausage a hazardous material?

    2008-02-07T13:03:00Z

    When it's barbequed on a construction site surrounded by flammable waste

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    Riding high

    2008-02-06T06:08:00Z

    Surely this chap can't think it's normal to sit astride a high-pitched roof in this manner...

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    For the love of windows

    2008-02-05T11:51:00Z

    This man clearly thinks window cleaning requires walking along a perilous parapet three storeys up

  • Rooftop skier
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    Rooftop skier

    2008-02-04T14:42:00Z

    Slaloming between the chimney pots on the rooftops of Clapham

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    Next stop the Niagara Falls!

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Peter Renn spotted this wannabe tightrope-walker on a cold and windy housing site in Leicestershire. He says: “I assure you it was indeed an apex ridge on a steeply sloping roof.”

  • High door
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    Knock, knock...

    2008-01-31T06:03:00Z

    The builder who installed this door must have been some joker

  • Wonky windows
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    Get me that window fitter's number

    2008-01-30T12:54:00Z

    Someone needs to have a word with whoever thought they could get away with this...

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    ¡!

    2008-01-29T12:28:00Z

    Are these Spanish workers displaying a good sense of balance or just no sense at all?

  • Temple in Thailand
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    You gotta have faith

    2008-01-28T11:40:00Z

    These workers in Thailand are using traditional methods and no safety equipment to build a temple

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    The affordable ejector seat

    2008-01-25T00:01:00Z

    Peter Smith writes: “I followed this guy at over 40mph along a busy road in Paddington. The ladder is sticking out through the sunroof!”

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    One (un)careful owner

    2008-01-24T11:41:00Z

    This looks suspiciously like a homeowner undertaking some risky DIY

  • French dangerous worker
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    Parisienne lean-to

    2008-01-23T13:53:00Z

    Maël Croyal sent in this blunder from across the Channel