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UK groundworks contractors are collapsing in 2026. Here’s why trench safety can’t be the next casualty, and what compliant protection looks like.

For anyone specifying or supplying edge protection, AMP8 is worth understanding, because water infrastructure sites bring their own particular demands. This article sets out what AMP8 is, the scale of what is coming, and what it means at the edge.

Staircases are one of the most awkward places on a site to protect, used constantly from the earliest phase of a build, with geometry that changes as you climb. This guide sets out what makes stairwell protection a distinct problem, and what a good stair rail system needs to solve.

Every post that needs drilling or fixing is time spent exposed on an open edge. The Rapid Post removes that exposure, a tool-free compression post that installs faster than anything else on the market. This article explains why that matters for the people fitting it.

While much of UK construction faces a tough 2026, data centre construction is booming, driven by AI infrastructure and cloud demand, with over 170 projects tracked across the UK pipeline. Read on to see the edge protection challenges this creates, and how contractors, distributors, and safety specialists can get ahead of them.

This guide covers the key considerations for specifying and installing edge protection on structural steel, including fixing methods, ground-level installation, compliance requirements, and what to look for when selecting a system.

A system built to last 20 or more years, maintained and reused across multiple projects, tells a very different sustainability story to one that needs replacing every three to five years. This article sets out why longevity is the most important sustainability metric when specifying edge protection, and what that means for contractors and distributors making procurement decisions in 2026.

Rapid CraneShield is a purpose-built security enclosure designed by Rapid-EPS to protect the base of tower cranes from unauthorised access. This article explains what it is, how it works, and why it represents a practical and important layer of site security.

Falls from height have remained the leading cause of workplace fatalities in Great Britain for almost every year since 2001 — and yet the numbers refuse to budge. Despite the Work at Height Regulations being in force for over two decades, sites across the country are still falling short. So why isn’t it getting better, and what does the data actually tell us?

This article explains what genuinely separates a high-performance edge protection panel from a product that merely clears the compliance threshold, and why specification decisions at the panel level matter as much as any other part of the system.

The UK construction skills shortage is reshaping how sites operate. Here is why installation speed and system simplicity matter more than ever in 2026.

This article sets out the key regulatory framework, explains how it compares to UK requirements, and identifies what it means in practice for suppliers and their distribution partners.