A self‑employed contractor has been jailed after a teenager fell to his death during demolition works on a property in Surrey.

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has become a standalone organisation, paving the way for the creation of a single construction regulator.

A builder who threatened inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and told them his name was James Bond has been fined.

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.

A construction client has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was found dead on a building site in north London.

A construction company has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a partially constructed barn in Shropshire.

HSE inspectors will assess whether construction sites in Manchester have the right measures in place to protect workers.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted two companies after a construction worker fell through a rooflight at a factory, impaling his leg on machinery below. A.T. Lee…

A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.

A building company has been fined £56,775 after an employee was crushed to death when a 1.8m-high retaining wall collapsed on him.

A construction company and its director have been fined after a five-year-old child was injured by a falling cast-iron pipe.

Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning about the risk of people being struck by an excavator or a load if the operator does not use the isolation device correctly.

A London property developer has been fined £40,000 after a member of the public was crushed by a faulty falling lift at a residential property.

Thirty-five construction workers were killed in work-related incidents between April 2024 and March 2025, the latest HSE annual fatalities statistics show.

A construction site supervisor has been fined after he exposed primary school pupils and staff to asbestos during renovation work.

A demolition company has been fined after a worker fell 6m through a roof opening, suffering serious injuries during the demolition of a vacant warehouse in Aberdeen.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector says it was “lucky nobody was killed” after four men were injured, including two seriously, when the first floor of a house collapsed during building works.