Two building control companies have been sanctioned following minor breaches of the code of conduct for approved inspectors. Building Consents Ltd and Integral Building Control Solutions Ltd faced separate disciplinary…

Balfour Beatty has been fined £285,000 after a worker died and another was seriously injured in a scissor lift accident.

A senior APS member has called on the HSE to re-examine the role of dutyholders under the CDM regulations in the light of an increase in fatalities in construction. Figures…

Health and Safety Executive inspectors are investigating the site of the fire that broke out at a block of flats in Dagenham in August. A total of 40 fire engines…

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…

Two companies have been fined a total of £76,000 after a engineer was crushed to death by a machine on 24 February 2020. Russell Hartley, 48, was a self-employed engineer…

A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company has been fined £240,000 after a worker was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work. Gavin Pugh, from Bangor in North…

EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd has been fined £52,500 after an employee sustained serious injuries while working at an HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire. The man, who was employed as a…

Deaths in construction have risen with a worker dying almost every week. Last year, 51 people died at work in construction compared with 47 the previous year, Health and Safety…

Avant Homes has been fined £333,000 after a driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire. Conor Joseph Morgan, 45, had been…

Van Elle has been fined £233,000 after a 52-year-old HGV driver was struck and killed by the mast of a piling rig at a site in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its guidance on registered building inspectors to include details about what constitutes a conflict of interest.

If there’s an accident on your site and the HSE investigates, what happens next? A ‘mock trial’ shows how proceedings work in a health and safety prosecution. Cristina Lago sits in.

Two fire-related fatalities in the 12 months to September 2023.

Erith Plant Services has been fined £175,000 after the death of one of its employees.

A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from asbestos exposure at a development project in Winchester.

A company has been fined £450,000 and its director handed a suspended prison sentence after a labourer was crushed to death at a construction site in Hockley, Birmingham.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will perform checks on how asbestos is managed in buildings to ensure that the right arrangements are in place.