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Happy New Year from everybody at The Building Safety Group! We begin 2025 by publishing our first newsletter of the year. Our latest edition includes an article about how to prepare your site severe weather, which we thought would be helpful in light of the alerts issued by the Met Office for this weekend. To

With Christmas fast approaching, we thought it would be helpful to provide our members with a checklist to follow when closing down sites for the holiday period. The checklist will help to ensure your sites remain safe and secure during the festivities and can be kept as a record until work resumes in the New

Our offices in Bristol and Scotland will be closed from 4pm Friday 20th December and will reopen from 8.30am on Thursday 2nd January. In case of emergency, please contact: Stephen Bell – 23/12 to 26/12 Tel 07768 826296 Andy Harper – 27/12 to 30/12 Tel 07824 492781 Steve Beckwith – 31/12 to 1/1 Tel 07810

Please take time to view our latest seminar about working with asbestos, presented by Andy Harper in association with Select. The session covers employers’ legal obligations under Regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Working with Asbestos

With weather conditions expected to worsen this weekend and during the winter months, we would like to remind our members about the potential impact on site operations. BSG recommends companies follow the guidance below. BSG Recommendations Scaffold Inspection It is the scaffold users/hirers responsibility to ensure that all scaffolding has been inspected as follows: Following

The Building Safety Group (BSG) has reported a 41% drop in welfare breaches recorded on construction sites. The figure was calculated using the data collected from 7,000 BSG site inspections which compared Q2 with Q3 this year. The significant reduction in the number of breaches reported has been attributed to the positive response from members,

Westminster is hoping that thousands of builders will take part in a potentially life-saving health-check programme. The so-called health MoT, which already exists for those aged over 40 and who are not already known to be suffering from cardiovascular conditions, involves weighing and measuring participants, as well as testing their blood pressure and cholesterol level.

Our new ‘Apprenticeship Scheme’ is now underway with two young people beginning their journey with The Building Safety Group (BSG) in October. Rosie Fricker and Fenn Daunton were the successful applicants, whose first job was to start their practical training with BSG. The first day began with a Mobile Scaffold Tower course, followed by Health

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is drafting new guidelines for tradesmen working with engineered stone after report shows increased risk to silicosis. HSE is asking for industry feedback from the Worktop Fabricators Federation – an association promoting good working practices for worktop fabrication and stone masonry industries – who were presented with draft guidelines