Health & Safety
Health & safety best practice, initiatives and legislation updates
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..
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..
Andújar's healthy reward
A Spanish quarry where safety is a priority has received a prestigious award for its initiatives .. Read more..
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..
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..
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..
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..
