Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy. Strategic Forum sets up dedicated safety group on quick hitches after recent death on Skanska/GrantRail project A subgroup dedicated ...
Health and Safety Executive issues safety alert on excavators after four fatalities in last year The Health and Safety Executive has issued a safety alert on the use of quick hitches on excavators, ...
Skanska UK has announced plans to ban all semi-automatic and automatic quick hitches from its UK sites by 1 November. Semi-automatic quick hitches have been linked to several fatal accidents in the UK ...
The use of semi-automatic quick-hitches is under scrutiny again in the UK after an inquest into the death of an engineer killed when a falling excavator bucket struck him on the head. A mandatory ban ...