All Safety blunders articles – Page 8

  • Snowy day in Chamonix
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    Snow way!

    2009-10-29T11:57:00Z

    Swiss builder leans over a three-storey drop ironically erecting safety barriers, while a full bucket of concrete hovers over his hatless mates…

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    Safety blunder: Poor taste or a learning tool?

    2009-10-27T12:06:00Z

    We've received conflicting reader comments about ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø's health and safety blunders series, so we thought we'd put the question to a vote...

  • Workers on Bom Jesus
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    Jesus, what are you doing up there?

    2009-10-23T12:29:00Z

    These Portuguese workers must rely on the strength of their faith to save them falling from the rather beautiful – but high – dome of Bom Jesus

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    True grit

    2009-10-23T01:33:00Z

    Anoop Drubhra snapped this heart-stopping action hero from his Dover Street office in Mayfair, London

  • Man in skip on forks
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    'Fork it, let's skip the safety'

    2009-10-22T12:42:00Z

    That was presumably the 'reasoning' behind putting the skip backwards on the forks of this truck to help a bricklayer fit air vents

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    Bad Santa

    2009-10-21T12:48:00Z

    Beware, it's that time when Christmas lights go up in town centres - but not always with public safety in mind

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    The nesting instinct

    2009-10-16T01:00:00Z

    Charles Bosher spotted this creative contraption somewhere west of Reading

  • Man painting drainpipe balanced precariously
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    Red for danger

    2009-10-14T10:55:00Z

    Or: how not to paint a drainpipe scarlet when balanced four storeys up between a gutter and a scaffold

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    Smile for the camera

    2009-10-13T11:47:00Z

    These workers in Azerbaijan take a moment to pose for the photographer

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    The props department

    2009-10-09T01:00:00Z

    Another bizarre example of on-site improvisation, this time courtesy of SJ Taylor, who snapped it when on holiday on the island of Gozo, near Malta

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    Maltese madness

    2009-10-06T13:38:00Z

    It's never a good thing for scaffolding to be notable by its absence...

  • A brilliantly improvised cladding in Portsmouth
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    One man, eight ladders

    2009-10-02T01:00:00Z

    Adam Meacham, health and safety adviser for Sir Robert McAlpine, has been taking his work outside the office – which is why we have this photo of a brilliantly improvised cladding in Portsmouth …

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    No sudden moves, okay?

    2009-09-29T09:00:00Z

    Let's hope he's moving along that 300mm ledge very, very slowly...

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    Without the aid of a net

    2009-09-25T01:00:00Z

    Our thanks to John Tarling for this one, taken from his office window in Southampton. Who needs safety equipment when you have the courage of a lion and the wisdom of a sardine?

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    Red alert

    2009-09-23T10:32:00Z

    Thanks to Stewart Holland of consultant GL Hearn for this photo taken from his office in Manchester of a man painting a drainpipe four storeys up a scaffold

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    Electric performance

    2009-09-18T16:43:00Z

    Sparks fly in Portugal as workers attempt some unorthodox demolition work

  • Belgians on the roof
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    Brugge health and safety!

    2009-09-15T11:11:00Z

    These Belgians seem worryingly offhand about safety, balanced atop a roof with no apparent security – and one's on the phone…

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    Ooh la la!

    2009-09-14T13:10:00Z

    Monsieur, can we point out that is a most improper use of a forklift truck?

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    He’s the king of the castle

    2009-09-11T09:01:00Z

    Kevin Power snapped this steely-nerved handyman, from his home office in Youghal, Co Cork. Perhaps the man is some sort of lookout for the building

  • Workers fixing rebar
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    Rebarkable

    2009-09-08T10:45:00Z

    Ten storeys up, these operatives are taking a relaxed approach to fixing rebar for a column in a building under construction