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Leadership council urged to address drug and alcohol problem

The Scottish Plant Owners Association is pressing the Construction Leadership Council to grasp the nettle of drug and alcohol abuse on construction sites.

Black Isle business leader calls time on 'widespread and very serious issue' of drug and alcohol abuse in construction industry with action demand

He says whilst employers can be punished if a member of staff has failed a drug or alcohol test, the plant operator who failed the test is not.

Plant body calls on Construction Leadership Council to tackle drug and alcohol abuse

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has written to the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) to call on the organisation to tackle drug and alcohol abuse among plant operators in the construction industry which is becoming a major problem.

Funding helps Lanarkshire training provider get back on track following lockdown

Higher learning - Cranes Today

Higher learning 12 February 2021 Training and certification for crane operators have until recently been national or state concerns. Now they are going continent-wide and crossing borders. Julian Champkin reports. Europe and the United States have both struggled to impose unified training and certification schemes for crane operators. Both have recently made steps towards a simplified system that will apply across state and national boundaries. Those systems are now in place. Even so, in both continents progress has been painfully slow and the legalities can still be a minefield. Ton Klijn is the director of ESTA, the body trying to bring some degree of coherence to the licencing of crane operators in the EU. “Every country has its own rules and regulations,” he says. “It made for a situation that can be daft. A mobile crane operator could legally drive his crane from Aberdeen to Sicily but could only operate it in his own country.