LONDON: One in five UK workers feigned an illness the last time they took a day off work as sick leave, according to a UK poll conducted by Aon Consulting.
UK: From the end of July 2010 UK and Irish plasterboard manufacturers will add new printed guidance on manual handling to plasterboard products, the Gypsum Products Development Association reports.
UK: In August 2009 a contractor filled a pit to a depth of some 6m with foamed concrete. While this was setting, workers started to remove steelwork using angle grinders. There was then an explosion beneath a steel walkway on which two contractors were standing, which blew the steel plates and the workers up into the roof of the building.
UK: The HSE has highlighted the dangers of improper board storage following a recent incident in which a worker was killed while he was helping to remove a board from a stack leaning against a wall. He lost control of the weight of the boards and they fell on him causing serious head injuries. In an earlier almost identical incident at another site a worker had his legs crushed.
WARWICKSHIRE: The UK's major gas boiler manufacturers with the support of the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council (HHIC) will no longer tolerate incompetent installers.
