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.

The sole director of a Wakefield roofing company has received a suspended prison sentence, after a subcontractor died when he fell 12m through a skylight.

The sole director of a Wakefield roofing company has received a suspended prison sentence, after a subcontractor died when he fell 12m through a skylight.

A construction worker has died in a “construction traffic incident” at the construction site of nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C.

A scaffolding company has received a £24,000 fine after a worker suffered fractures and a bruised kidney when he fell through a fibreglass skylight.

Excavation work exposed staff at one of logistics company Eddie Stobart’s sites to asbestos.

A housebuilder has received a fine of £116,666 after a history of health and safety failings.