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.

Nationwide has been fined £900,000 after a man was crushed to death while attempting to move a scissor lift at the company’s workshop in Liskeard, Cornwall, on 4 November 2021.

A company and its director have been sentenced after an employee fell from height and suffered serious injuries.

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

Each year thousands of construction workers suffer from irreversible lung diseases as a result of working on site.

A construction company has been fined £50,000 after a 16-year-old boy suffered serious injuries when he became trapped under a tractor while on paid work experience.

Health and Safety Executive inspectors have found companies where the health of workers is being neglected when managing dust exposure risks.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched an inspection operation focusing on manufacturing businesses that use materials containing silica.

Great Britain’s construction sector recorded 45 fatal injuries during 2022/23, up from 29 the previous year, the latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) data shows.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a call to action to employers asking them to protect workers during periods of extreme hot weather this summer.

A building company has been fined after a demolition worker suffered serious injuries in a fall from a platform in London’s Kensington.

A garden landscaping company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry.

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