Construction businesses will only embrace culture change when they see tangible reasons to adopt it, argues Gavin Skelly.

Keepmoat Homes has pointed to arson as a possible cause for a fierce blaze involving timber frame homes on one of its construction sites.

There were 309 fires in buildings undergoing construction work last year, with 16% of them caused by hot works.

Peter Baker, the recently installed chief inspector of buildings at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), has welcomed the coming into effect of new planning requirements on fire safety.