SAFETY NEWS

The chair of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety commissioned by the government in the wake of the Grenfell fire disaster said the sector had demonstrated it was “capable of massive change at pace” and had been able to dump old practices quickly “without compromising safety or quality”.

The Government’s  Building Safety Fund will not be enough to make high rise and high-risk buildings safe from fire says the Greater Manchester High Rise Task Force. It has made a submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee that the £1bn won’t be enough, and that Greater Manchester alone may need a quarter of the fund.

Wates Living Space has finished remediation work to replace the cladding system on a council-owned tower block in Manchester

A construction company has been fined after a worker was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken wrist in a fall from a raised platform at Old Eldon Farm, Shildon.

Building owners are being urged to register for the government’s £1bn Building Safety Fund to remove and replace unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings.

Councillor John Merry, Deputy City Mayor of Salford, made a decision during a recent cabinet meeting to allow cladding works in the area to continue.