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Correct PPE vital for quarry safety The correct personal protective equipment in quarries saves lives. Ensuring the protection of employees' health and safety is now the first priority at quarry sites. Indeed it has become the guiding principle for employees starting from the highest levels of responsibility, and the aim is to achieve a zero accident rate and certainly a zero fatality rate. All the major companies in the sector,...

HeidelbergCement Helps African School To Rebuild The HeidelbergCement Group is working hard to change lives for the better in Africa. A group of HeidelbergCement volunteers has just got back from Tanzania after helping to rebuild two school classrooms at the Kighare Secondary School, near Usangi in the Kilimanjaro Region. The school was badly battered by heavy rains last year, and whole classrooms were swept away. A team from the...

Coastal defence calls for aggregates Coastal defence work is a race against the changing tides, requiring heavyweight engineering answers and on-site technical support, as well as high quality materials Rising sea levels mean that coastal defence schemes are becoming increasingly important to many seaside towns and villages. While the technology to track the rate of change in sea levels is advancing, so are the materials to...