The Beetham Hilton Tower is the most striking landmark on the Manchester skyline and it’s nearing completion.

It was in the news last week after a Manchester Evening News reader sent a photo in which it appeared that a construction worker was taking a nap high up on the building, in full view of people down below, including the MEN reader and his camera. It turned out however that the construction worker wasn’t sleeping at all but fully conscious and carrying out a job which required him to be in a horizontal position.

I was surprised to see an apparent example of health and safety malpractice on the Beetham Hilton Tower site, because any time I was on the site, I was struck by how stringently the health and safety regulations are applied. There was no such thing as workers having their sandwiches sitting on girders suspended from cranes, as depicted in posters from New York in the 20s, and definitely no workers sleeping on the job next to a 500 foot drop. It just goes to show that everything we read in the newspaper, or come across in the media, needs to be considered carefully. One of EOM’s key messages is that information is fragile and we need to be sceptical, and check the facts. That also applies to this site.

Hopefully there are no factual errors in this article about the Beetham Hilton Tower, which includes a selection of photos from the photo portfolio.

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