Three men have been sentenced for helping more than 500 people cheat a construction health and safety exam following a joint investigation by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and Essex Police.

A construction company director and his firm have been fined after failing to comply with multiple enforcement notices and for failing to suitably plan, manage and monitor construction work.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions, Mark Allen, Pick Everard’s director of health and safety, tells his younger self. He’d also like to see an increased awareness of CDM for newly qualified architects and engineers.

A company and its director have been fined a combined £18,000 after a man was injured during excavation work in West Sussex.

Before the pandemic the death rate in construction was slowing. The latest HSE figures show that this has now reversed.

More people are being killed at work now after suffering a fall from height than in the last 17 years, according to the latest fatality figures released by the HSE…

Despite decades of research and development and the redesign of construction work and building sites, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continue to plague the sector, accounting for the majority of workplace injuries. …

Newport City Council has been fined £2m after a man was killed while carrying out road repair works on 18 July 2019.

Public confidence in construction plunged following the Grenfell fire – but the industry will still have a self-regulatory role in product safety through the new Code for Construction Product Information. That’s worrying, says David Shepherd.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into two track workers who narrowly avoided being struck by a train while working close to Penkridge station on 10 July 2022.

Ahead of Hard Hat Awareness Week during 12-18 June, a panel of experts, chaired by CM editor Will Mann, discussed these issues.

A sun safety campaign has been launched by construction charity We Build the Future to help reduce the risk and incidence of skin cancer among people working in the built environment sector. 

A Cheshire building company and director have been fined under the Health and Safety at Work Act following repeated H&S failures.

The controversial Bill to ‘sunset’ European legislation by the end of the year has had its second reading in the House of Lords.

A building firm that allowed a digger to be used to lift a pair of workers to fit a stone on a new home has been fined £120,000.

The government could scrap the UK’s Work at Height Regulations at the end of 2023 unless campaigners can convince ministers to retain them.

Managers of buildings including schools, hospitals and social housing should urgently review their management plans amid fears that asbestos left in buildings as “safe” could now be in a damaged state.

More than two decades after it was banned, asbestos remains an active threat to those working in construction, explains Colette Willoughby.