Health & safety bulletin
Ceiling Collapse
4th February 2010
Please follow the link below to a self explanatory bulletin from the Global Alliance which does not relate to a job that Xmo were involved with, but is very pertinent to the works we are undertaking for some customers.
In the last year, our work in this area has escalated considerably because of more customer emphasis on saving energy. Our “in store” remit, over and above forecourt work has included replacing internal shop lights with LED lamps, fitting motion detectors and project managing the fitting of LED refrigeration lighting retrofit fridge doors to save energy, fitting energy saving sun tubes and in some cases replacing the existing ceiling.
Analysis of our own near-misses shows not only the hazard identified by the GA in this bulletin, but also unsafe wiring, loose transformers that fall out when the tiles are removed and old uni-struts and redundant components being left in the ceiling void.
Click here to download the bulletin (286Kb PDF file)