CJ blog: A safer place to work
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- Construction Space: The online community for construction. // Contract Journal;4/8/2009, Vol. 446 Issue 6718, p40
The article presents various blogs posted on the online community for construction called Construction Space including a blog on the construction site welfare facilities, a blog on following guideline on the construction site safety and a blog on the Construction Plant Competence Scheme's...
- Safety first? Patterson, Maureen // Buildings;Jul95, Vol. 89 Issue 7, p40
Discusses the ways to make a building danger-proof. Risk assessment; Location; Reference to the Oklahoma bombing case and the changed concerns of the builders; Designing the security system; Security measures. INSET: Easy-to-use security tips..
- Don't overlook little things. // ENR: Engineering News-Record;10/9/95, Vol. 235 Issue 15, p54
Editorial. Comments on the need to pay attention to details in the engineering and construction business. Incidents involving accidents caused by neglecting details, including a collapse of a bridge.
- Sub loses gamble, but don't blame the system. // ENR: Engineering News-Record;11/10/97, Vol. 239 Issue 19, p78
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- Safety: Everyone's Business. // ENR: Engineering News-Record;09/28/98, Vol. 241 Issue 12, p140
Editorials. Emphasizes how the construction industry has been addressing the safety issue. Evidences of the industry's commitment to safety; Details on the revised policy on construction site safety.
- Subsurface utility engineering. Speed, Vicki // Point of Beginning;Apr97, Vol. 22 Issue 7, p65
Emphasizes the importance of knowledge on subsurface utility engineering (SUE) to help prevent ground-breaking mishaps in construction. Improvement and enhancement of data in the design phase of construction; Uses as a planning tool; Mobilizing the construction site with an air vacuum...
- Construction tops in electrocutions. Smith, S.L. // Occupational Hazards;Jun97, Vol. 59 Issue 6, p24
Focuses on occupational fatalities from contact with overhead power lines in the construction industry. Statistical information on occupational electrocutions which occurred from July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1995; How to prevent these fatalities.
- Forum safety plans get boost from CBPP support. Wood, Tim // Contract Journal;2/20/2002, Vol. 412 Issue 6365, p4
Reports on the support given by the Construction Best Practice Programme (CBPP) on the plan of Strategic Forum to spread the messages of team integration and client influence and to improve people and safety issues in the construction industry in Great Britain. Key role of the CBPP; Information...
- Power tools lose their bad vibrations. Coghlan, Andy // New Scientist;2/13/93, Vol. 137 Issue 1860, p20
Focuses on a unique damping system designed to prevent the vibrations of powerful pneumatic chisels and hammers from damaging the hands of operators. `Vibration white finger' is the condition that many construction and demolition workers develop. Number of cases in Britain in the year 1990/91;...
