Health & safety

This topic area offers you a set of resources to help you keep up to date with health and safety issues.

Health and safety articles

• Asbestos surveys – 2010 update

  The purpose of all asbestos surveys is to help manage asbestos in premises, to provide accurate information on asbestos-containing materials, to assess the level of damage or deterioration, to prepare a record of the location of any asbestos, and to help identify all materials that need to be removed before commencement of any works. read more on 'Asbestos surveys – 2010 update' ...

• Construction Health and Safety

  In 2001 the Government promised to look at construction health and safety. We put party politics aside to assess progress. read more on 'Construction Health and Safety' ...

• Making timber frame structures safer

  Following a serious blaze in a timber framed building in Peckham, south London, there have been calls for the UK to abandon timber frame construction as unsafe. We take a look at the issue. read more on 'Making timber frame structures safer' ...

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