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Maintenance contractor Health & Safety

Contracting safer practice

Risk to direct employees in quarries has been cut significantly in recent years but the potential for preventable accidents among contractors. Efforts to improve safety in quarries across Europe in .. Read more..

Sun on quarries Health & Safety

Under the spotlight

Incidence of skin cancer is on the rise in Europe and with quarry workers at the highest risk of workplace exposure to UV radiation, ABE LOOKS at the options for protection .. Read more..

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Andújar's healthy reward

A Spanish quarry where safety is a priority has received a prestigious award for its initiatives .. Read more..

Risk assessments Health & Safety

Creating a united dialogue

Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) could, according to some, be as serious a threat as exposure to asbestos. Paul Howard finds out what's being done to reduce the risk .. Read more..

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Reducing the risk

Quarrying can be a dangerous business but the Atlantic Alliance believes that sharing best practice can help reduce the risk. Claire Symes reports .. Read more..

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Assessing vibration

The action values established in the Directive have been set to provide workers with a good level of protection, but measuring and assessing the impact of vibration on the human body in an accurate .. Read more..

Active suspension seat Health & Safety

Stilling the vibration

Operator comfort and wellbeing is high on the agenda for both construction equipment manufacturers and quarry operators, and introduction of the Human Vibration Directive will add a new legislative .. Read more..