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Winners announced at the Health and Safety 'Oscars' - IOSH!

Comedian Seann Walsh of BBC's Mock the Week acted as master of ceremonies at the sixth annual SHP IOSH awards, with SHP's editor Tina Weadick presenting the awards alongside him.

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When I'm cleaning windows...

It's not often that the importance of safety when working from height makes the pages of the nationals but it made the news last week, for all the wrong reasons.

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Great shot - £100 prize for Euan Connelly for sending in this photo

Our F100 Winner for October is Euan Connelly of Plant and Stage Crew Services, who has captured a couple of our Boom lifts down at Battersea Power Station...

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Nelson's eye view over London

Facelift scaled new heights last month as they enabled inspection work to be carried out on one of the nation's most iconic landmarks - Nelson's column - and captured some stunning images to boot...

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Holiday competition winner announced

We're pleased to announce the winner of our holiday competition is Nick Staton of Bournemouth. Nick will be presented with his prize of £1500 Travel Vouchers later this month - and then we're all keen to know where he'll decide to go!...

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The Boss has been locked up...

Gordon Leicester, MD of Facelift hasn't been behaving himself. On Saturday 10th November he will be getting publically 'arrested' in Crawley Town Centre, handcuffed and taken to Crawley Police Station with 5 other 'arrestees'...

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Up on the roof... New HSE Publication...

Roofers make up nearly a quarter of all workers killed in falls from height at work, and this is one area where significant improvement in working practices is necessary...

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IPAF releases worldwide accident data...

IPAF's accident reporting project shows that there were 26 deaths resulting from 25 accidents worldwide involving MEWPs from January to September 2012. There are around 1.5 million MEWPs in operation worldwide...

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