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Health & Safety Lessons

One of the seven main components of the UKCG Health & Safety Strategy is;

  • Exchanging best practice and consideration of lessons learnt in order to direct collective action;

Below is a set of lessons complied by UKCG member companies. If you would a copy of a specific lessons learnt document or have any comments or case studies to add please contact james.dobson@ukcg.org.uk.

Lessons

  • Bagged Deliveries

  • Broken Quick Hitch Link

  • Cherry Pickers

  • CFA Piling - Spoil on Auger

  • Crane Ballast Blocks

  • Cranes - Fleeting Sheaves and Retaining Plates

  • Damaged Load Collars

  • Dumper - Rollover protection

  • Edge Protection to Excavations

  • Forged CSCS cards

  • Forklifts

  • Formwork - Stacking, Handling and Unloading

  • Goods Hoist Doors

  • Guidance on lifting operations in construction when using excavators

  • Joist Hangers

  • Lifting Mini Excavators

  • Lifting Sitecabins

  • Pipe Rack Failure

  • Podium steps

  • Safe Unloading of Lorries

  • Safety Nets

  • Safety Nets - Claw Hangers

  • Steel Decking

  • Steel Pipes - Handling & Stacking

  • Threaded Shoring Adaptors

  • Tower Cranes - Access Control

  • Warning on the dangers of lifting of persons using hydraulic excavators