黑洞社区

Comment

You couldn鈥檛 make it up

2010-12-17T00:00:00Z

Throughout 2010 readers shared their favourite health and safety horrors from around the world

Features

Safety blunder: Sliding high

2010-11-29T16:41:00Z

A little slime and seagull droppings won鈥檛 deter these foolhardy painters

Comment

... and then there were two

2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

It seems Mark Hammond, 12 November鈥檚 blunder spotter, was not alone.

Comment

Rain man

2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

Full marks for creating a perfect water slide with a glass conservatory for a crash pad

Comment

Double act

2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

Mark Hammond says: 鈥淭hese men in Dubrovnik were making quite a good job of pointing the ridge tiles, but it makes you shudder to think how they got up there, or down again!鈥�

News

Safety blunder: Catching a lift

2010-11-11T11:25:00Z

Now surely using a forklift truck in this way is against the rules鈥�

Comment

Extreme mowing

2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

Nick Rhodes, of Oxfordshire housing association Sovereign Vale, sent in this photograph taken by one of his tenants. 鈥淭his is a novel way to cut the top of a hedge,鈥� he says.Email your 鈥渇avourite鈥� health and safety pictures to building@ubm.com or upload them to the 黑洞社区 Network at network.building.co.uk. The ...

News

Trust the Transit

2010-11-04T11:13:00Z

This worker shows an unhealthy attachment to his van鈥�

News

Rough trades take chance in Notting Hill

2010-11-02T10:41:00Z

This window cleaner was risking life and limb opposite the Rough Trade record store in Notting Hill, appropriately enough

Comment

Dropping in for a pizza

2010-10-27T14:42:00Z

Thanks to Martin Corbishley for spotting this demonstration of the lengths some people will go to for a decent Quattro Stagione

Comment

Two bags of ballast = One dimwit in a hi-vis

2010-10-26T13:20:00Z

Thanks to Gavin Williams of Wates for spotting this evidence of the seesaw theory of mathematics

Comment

Scratcher in the sky

2010-10-25T12:44:00Z

Thanks to Brian Butler of Prater for snapping this itchy daredevil

Comment

Balance of terror

2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate.

Comment

Not-so-smooth landing

2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thanks to John Potter for this photo taken in Cheltenham. 鈥淎t least the spiked railings will stop them hitting the ground!鈥� he comments pointedly

Comment

Off his perch

2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

Martin Ward, the construction director of Persimmon Homes, came across this set-up in Mauritius. He says: 鈥淭here are vertical reinforcing bars below him and the cross supports are nailed to the block wall.鈥�

News

Always wear clean shoes 鈥�

2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

Paul Southon sent in these astonishing pictures taken from a flat in the centre of London

Comment

Fuoco! Fuoco!

2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Rob Kirkaldy of Spectrum Acoustic Consultants for this site scene in Sorrento, southern Italy. Insurers of a nervous disposition may want to look away

News

Safety blunder: On-site showering facilities for cyclists sadly lacking

2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

Health and safety manager Brian Butler sent us this picture of a man taking a bath in a bucket

Comment

Don't look up

2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are 鈥渁ll big fans鈥� of 黑洞社区鈥檚 health and safety blunders.

Comment

It's just a step to the left ...

2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

Our thanks, and the usual 拢25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King鈥檚 Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.