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    Balfour Beatty repeatedly put workers at risk of developing HAVS
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    Balfour Beatty repeatedly put workers at risk of developing HAVS
    Legionella
    Bupa fined £3m over care home resident’s Legionnaires' disease death
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    UAE regulates work hours to limit labourers’ sun exposure

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    Road safety
    Selfish drivers putting road workers at risk, Highways England warns

    Thousands of road workers’ lives are being put at risk, Highways England has said after new research revealed a litany of serious incidents and near misses on Britain’s motorways and major A roads.
    Asbestos
    Untrained asbestos surveyor missed chrysotile and amosite

    A property management consultancy and an asbestos surveyor have been handed a penalty exceeding £15,000 for supplying an inadequate refurbishment and demolition survey for major structural work.
    Mental health
    CITB awards £500k to train 2,500 construction mental health first aiders

    The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced an investment of £500,000 to train more than 150 construction workers as mental health first aid instructors by 2019.
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    Features

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    Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty
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    ICOH 2018 Congress

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    Older workers
    Case study
    EPC-UK: committed to fitness

    The commercial explosives firm’s wellbeing initiatives aim to support its ageing and hard-to-reach workers both mentally and physically. 
    Ergonomics
    Exoskeletons
    Power suits

    Organisations may soon be giving workers ‘outside’ assistance to manage biomechanical hazards. 
    Asbestos
    Case study
    Landsec: duty to manage

    The FTSE 100 developer uses a belt-and-braces approach to control asbestos risk to its large supply chain.
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