BRITISH Columbia's unionised construction workers and their employers have created a new industry-wide policy.
16/09/2008
BRISBANE City Council says it is preparing to take on thousands of new workers over the next four year.
11/02/2009
UK CONSTRUCTION workers have formed a band and are singing about the global economic crisis in London’s financial district.
05/11/2008
AUSTRALIAN construction workers will drop their tools for one minute today to remember those in the industry who have been killed on the job.
28/04/2009
XINHUA has reported seven managers and supervisors have been arrested for not upholding workplace safety practices which led to the deaths of 11 workers.
21/11/2008
CONSTRUCTION workers have pressured the South Australian Government to modify workplace health and safety laws.
03/09/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Safety and Compensation Council has released it annual Compendium of Workers’ Compensation Statistics for 2006-07.
02/04/2009
THE NEW York Daily News has reported a construction worker has became another victim of crane accidents on construction sites.
01/09/2009
JLG Industries has announced layoffs affecting 325 production workers, a week after 100 administrative positions were cut.
04/06/2009
THE CFMEU has accused the construction company coordinating work at the National Gallery of Australia of breaching safety laws after a crane on the site dropped a large concrete slab.
25/03/2009
POLICE are investigating the theft of a crane which was stolen from a Florida construction site.
22/08/2008
A MULTISTOREY scaffold partially collapsed yesterday on a Castlereagh Street worksite between Market and Park Streets.
25/03/2009
MANHATTAN District Court has indicted a contractor for manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a crane accident in 15 March 2008.
06/01/2009
THE WESTERN Australian Government has announced that construction of a new sports stadium has been put on the backburner for at least two years because of lack of funding.
03/02/2009
TWO fathers protesting on a crane will interfere with construction work on the Ohio State University’s (OSU) new student academic-services building.
01/10/2008
JCB has announced it will be making another 684 workers redundant due to the current downturn.
13/01/2009
THE ELEVATED Work Platforms Association (EWPA) has released an alert after a JLG 450AJ Kuckle Boomlift was stolen on 22 November from a NSW construction site.
27/11/2009
THE AMERICAN Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has approved the American National Standards (ANSI) safety requirements for rope-guided and non-guided worker’s hoists.
18/08/2008
THE NEW York Post says federal investigators examining a New York Crane crane collapse are linking Chinese repair work to the accident that killed two construction workers.
10/03/2009
The US Army Corps of Engineers has implemented a crane safety plan to ensure workers are protected during the construction of its base in San Antonio.
30/09/2008