SearchFirst Aid in the Workplace – Changes to Regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), carried out an evaluation of first aid in the workplace and found that ‘although first aid…
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Understanding Bandings
This article has been superseded by Safety Guidance – Classification of Potentially Contaminated Sites for Intrusive Investigation Activities which was published in March…
Putting Safety First
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 Introduction This new Act came into force on 6th April 2008. An offence is…
The Dangers of Trial Pitting
This is Alex Wright. Alex was a 27 year old experienced geotechnical engineer. He lost his life on Friday 5th September 2008…
Unexploded Ordnance – a Construction Industry Guide
As the representative of the AGS on the project steering group for the forthcoming CIRIA construction industry guidance on UXO, Andy O’Dea…
AGS manual handling
More than a quarter of accidents that have occurred at work and have been reported to the enforcing authorities each year, are…
Defence cost in criminal prosecutions
It is probably common knowledge that fines arising from Criminal Prosecutions for Health and Safety breaches are not covered by a designer’s…
Establishing Ground Rules
Concerns over the place of Ground investigations in relation to CDM led John Banks and Mouchel Parkman to raise queries with HSE…
Underground Services and Utility Plans
Figures provided by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) record around 30 fatalities a year through contact with electricity. Most of these…
Ground investigation industry urged to take heed of new EC regulations
In April 2007, yet another piece of EC Regulation came into force. This relates to drivers’ hours and the need for tachographs…
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (“CDM”) – Questions and Answers
Why was it necessary to revise the CDM Regulations 1994? The new Regulations came into force in April 2007. The purpose of…
Guidance on the use of HBM in working platforms
New guidance has been launched by WRAP entitled ‘Guidance on the use of HBM in working platforms’. This covers the key issues…
Drilling down into industry safety
Site investigation companies should expect increased HSE attention following the recent successful prosecution of CET Limited following an accident where a drill…
Letter to The Editor
Sir, Richard Thomas’ letter published in last month’s edition of the AGS Newsletter opens up an interesting debate on how we quantify…
Environmental Alert New Hazardous Waste Regulations
NEW REGULATIONS The Hazardous Waste and List of Wastes Regulations have been introduced replacing the existing Special Waste Regulations 1996 and come…
Hand Arm Vibration
HSE are becoming seriously concerned about hand arm vibration while breaking down piles. Members of the Federation of Piling Specialists have experienced…
Letters to the Editor
Integrating archaeology into geotechnical surveys Dear Colleague Unexpected archaeological discoveries can cause costly construction delays. There are number of things which AGS…
A Low Cost Support Tool for Single Manning Site Safety
All member companies will have had experience of controlling single manning site safety be it office administrators, or at the other extreme,…
CSCS – What you need to know
The CSCS Scheme was set up in 1995 and there are currently more than 600,000 card holders covering more than 170 occupations.…
What Is Finalling?
In future the NHBC will adopt a consistent approach to determining what will and what will not prevent the necessary confirmation that…
AGS Insurance Questions
1. What is the insurance position if there is third party damage when acting as a consultant? Basically the answer depends on…