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Heavy equipment is required for many activities, but with heavy equipment comes increased responsibility and difficulty. When operating with heavy equipment, there are se...
The famous book ‘The Happiness Advantage’ was penned by Shawn Achor, and it provides detailed analysis of more than 200 individual studies on happiness. This book focuses...
Wrekin Products has launched a manhole cover reducer ring to aid compliance with Part H of the Building Regulations. A reducer ring provides a second line of defence agai...
Renovating a home before the relocation is a good idea to turn it into the home of your dreams. But this is not the time when one has to hang up with the interiors and am...
An active underground mine can be a seismically noisy environment, full of signals generated by heavy machinery at work and induced seismicity. Now, researchers working w...
The Government will recruit a specialised team of inspectors to join the country’s first ever Road Safety Investigation Branch, looking at how and why incidents happen an...
The last few years proved challenging for professionals in the construction industry. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted virtually every industry, but...
Bunzl, one of the world’s largest cleaning services companies are partnering with Vycel, Britain’s electrostatic disinfection technology provider, to deploy it’s ‘Vycel 4...
Veolia’s Water Division, situated across Australia and New Zealand, now uses StaySafe technology to adhere to Section 48 of the NSW Work Health and Safety Regulatio...
Work sites in the highways sector are set to become even safer and more sustainable after the launch of new innovation from Solar Gates UK. The development of INSTABOOM S...
Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), belonging to the ai2 Institute, and from the company Metalesa have developed a new smart road guardrail th...
A lecturer from the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University has developed rocking traffic poles made of natural rubber that is highly flexible, withstands, and reduc...
According to the Institute for Government report “How governments use evidence to make transport policy”, the Department for Transport (DfT) is planning a major programme...
The UK’s safe digging community has never been stronger, with 84 percent of all projects now preceded by a search for underground pipes and cables, according to Digging u...
Ford has teamed up with the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to “Make it Visible” – a new high-visibility campaign using higher-viz safety vests to grab attention...
Air pollution from motor vehicles is an invisible danger that is a serious threat to our health and wellbeing. Richard Sabin, Managing Director of Biotecture, looks at ho...
When the next hurricane strikes, the N.C. Department of Transportation will be armed with an advanced flood-warning system that relies on a network of 400 river and strea...
ThoughtRiver, one of the UK’s leading legal technology companies, has announced the development of a tool tailored to reviewing construction and engineering appoint...
Serious auto crashes in urban areas are more likely on city streets that look to drivers like highways, new research suggests. The study used a novel approach: Ohio State...
Cars are one of the most popular modes of transport across the entire UK. They provide quick and easy access to every part of any city, so it comes as no surprise that th...
Magid has taken coreless cut protection to the next level with DX+ Technology® (“DX Plus Technology”). Building on the ground-breaking advances of Magid’s 2018 DX Technol...
The installation of new safety equipment on smart motorways without a permanent hard shoulder will be completed within the next five months, it was confirmed today. Natio...
Lancashire County Council has been fined £50,000 after several employees carrying out work in the highways department developed a debilitating nerve condition, Hand Arm V...
The roadbuilding industry is more committed to safe digging than it has ever been, according to Richard Broome, MD at LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource...
Loneliness is the focus of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, which takes place from the 9th-15th May 2022. Alex Minett, Head of Products and Markets at CHAS looks...
TRL has been awarded a prestigious grant by the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) to develop ways of implementing its Speed Management Assessment Tool (SMAT...
The industry’s first ‘Transparent Bucket’ system launched by Doosan Infracore Europe, has won another major award in Europe. The latest honour is the ‘Coup de Coeur’...
Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, is a legal requirement in every working environment. Some environments have a greater need than others, and the construction indust...
The construction industry can be unpredictable and tremendously complex. Mismanagement and miscalculation can result in compromised work quality and cost companies time a...
Speed limits seem quite straightforward at a glance as they tell drivers to drive under the required number. However, a common belief that makes this issue a little bit c...
Truck and other commercial vehicle traffic accidents are a typical occurrence in the state of California. This is owing to the massive size and weight of these sorts of v...
Now you’re fully trained and ready to get started in your new engineering role, there’s a lot of new processes and systems you need to get to grips with. Argu...
Thomas & Friends make special trip to London to teach kids about Rail Safety A special episode of the much-loved children’s programme, Thomas & Friends®, is being...
Road safety funding for public and private organisations, registered charities, university departments and not for profits, has been announced and will open in September...
With over four million journeys taking place across England’s motorways and major roads each day, National Highways has equipped its traffic officers with VB400 body-worn...
Software has announced it has won the contract to provide the Jamaican Ministry of Transport and Mining with its web-based accident analysis software system, iMAAP. The R...
Amey, a leading public service provider, has chosen Applied Driving Techniques (ADT) to provide e-learning across the business to promote road safety and mitigate identif...
The Swedish SmartCity system, the Actibump, is now available world-wide after 10 years and 100 installations in the Nordics. A special demo offer is available at Intertra...
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel super-hygroscopic material that enhances sweat evaporation within a personal p...
Cambridge Biotech firm CodiKoat has developed a self-cleaning protective coating that can help clean up “filthy” public touchscreen devices and protect against viruses. T...
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