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The Golden Thread

Storing your building’s information – the golden thread This guidance is for anyone responsible for a building’s information throughout its life-cycle. This includes, building companies, principal designers and principal contractors, and local authorities. The information you will need to manage Your building’s information must be: kept digitally kept securely a building’s single source of truth available to people who need the information to do a job available when the person needs the information presented in a way that person can use   The information you will need to keep The information you keep must be proportionate and will depend on what stage the building is at in its life.…

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Health and Safety, Construction and CDM News

HSE releases annual health and safety statistics 2021/22 The estimated number of workers in Great Britain suffering a work-related illness is 1.8 million with stress, depression, and anxiety making up around half of cases, new figures show. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries.…

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Fire Risk Assessments

£600K fine for builder after fire risk failings

A building contractor has been fined £600,000 and its director has been ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and fined £4,200 following serious and repeated failings in managing the risk of fire during work at a construction site. In January 2018 the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) undertook a proactive inspection to investigate health and safety failings by the builder at a construction site at Regent House, Brentwood, Essex after a concern was raised that people were sleeping on site.…

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Accident and Incident Investigations

First Aid in the workplace

First aid in the workplace – what should Employers need to do? Employers must make sure employees get immediate help if taken ill or injured at work. The law applies to every workplace and to the self-employed. You must have: a suitably stocked first aid kitan appointed person or people to take charge of first aid arrangementsinformation for all employees telling them about first aid arrangements What ‘adequate and appropriate’ first aid arrangements are depends on the work you do and where you do it.…

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Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (brief factsheet reminder)

The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 introduce new duties under the Fire Safety Order for building owners or managers (responsible persons). The Government has introduced these regulations under article 24 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (Fire Safety Order) to implement the majority of those recommendations made to government in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 report which require a change in the law.…

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