All Safety blunders articles – Page 29

  • dangerous ski-lodge worker
    News

    Shall we bivvy here for the night?

    2007-04-24T13:45:00Z

    You would think there would be enough harnesses in the Alpes for these two moutaineers

  • JBC on chimney
    News

    Steeplejack swaps dynamite for a JCB

    2007-04-23T12:58:00Z

    The B in JCB must stand for balance in this hairy demolition job

  • dangerous worker balanced on ladder
    News

    The most dangerous seesaw in Britain

    2007-04-18T12:43:00Z

    Can you spot how this worker has cantilevered his scaffold decking off this apartment block balcony?

  • News

    Kerplunk!

    2007-04-18T11:51:00Z

    Peter Whitbread sent us this photo of a slightly, shall we say, disorganised site at Al Gouna in Egypt.

  • Maltese balancing act
    News

    The Maltese Fulcrum

    2007-04-17T12:35:00Z

    A fine balance of physics and fearlessness is needed on this site

  • walking in cement
    News

    Fancy foot work

    2007-04-16T10:12:00Z

    Anybody wading through cement bare footed risks both lime burns and dermatitis. Not recommended.

  • Scaffold worker
    News

    Scaffold soloist

    2007-04-12T12:31:00Z

    Using the scaffold as a giant ladder is not the recommended method of moving around on site

  • Scaffolding on housing
    News

    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's gallery of scaffolding shame

    2007-04-11T10:55:00Z

    Across the world people are still putting their faith in their balance alone

  • News

    The Lotus esprit

    2007-04-10T14:26:00Z

    Henry Lamb sent in this photo, taken by a friend at the Baha’i Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India. Inspired by the holy surroundings, a lot of faith is being placed in that rope ...

  • Bamboo balance
    News

    The bamboo balance

    2007-04-10T11:54:00Z

    A head for heights and a firm grip are all you need on this site

  • bricks unsafe
    News

    The tipping point

    2007-04-04T10:36:00Z

    Two woeful examples of material handling on site

  • dangerous ladder positioned on PC World
    News

    Scaffold scrimpers

    2007-04-03T12:37:00Z

    An awkward pitched roof and penny pinching on the scaffold have combined to bring us this blooper

  • News

    Are you sitting comfortably?

    2007-04-02T12:23:00Z

    Thanks to Carl Stevenson of Amber Valley council for this photo of a Prague workman – not his best angle admittedly – tackling some roof work on a five-storey building

  • Man asleep
    News

    Working flat-out

    2007-04-02T11:38:00Z

    He's made his bed, and now he's lying in it

  • News

    The siege tower of Leeds

    2007-03-29T12:30:00Z

    Genghis Khan's conquest of China would have been in doubt if his seige towers had been constructed in this ramshackle fashion

  • Plywood crow's nest
    News

    Ahoy there!

    2007-03-28T12:46:00Z

    A plywood crow's-nest on stilts takes a love for DIY to new heights

  • News

    The eighth wonder of the world

    2007-03-27T10:47:00Z

    Thanks to Gary Stanesby for this picture of an astonishing feat of construction ... and the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

  • Man on roof
    News

    Super-grippy shoes

    2007-03-27T10:32:00Z

    They must be otherwise this man would have slid off this rain-soaked slate roof by now

  • Man straddling roof
    News

    Fiddler on the roof

    2007-03-26T12:16:00Z

    Has nothing been learnt from Rod Hull's tragic demise?

  • Wimbledon painter
    News

    Has he just fallen from a plane?

    2007-03-20T11:10:00Z

    No he's the latest painter to throw caution to the wind in our gallery of building blunders