A demolition company has been fined and one of its directors ordered to do 250 hours of unpaid work after a 20-year-old labourer narrowly escaped death when she was crushed between an excavator and a fuel tank.

A new psychosocial hazards tool developed by Australian academics could help construction address its mushrooming mental health problem.

More than 100,000 UK buildings still need “extensive asbestos remediation”, according to the Asbestos Testing and Consultancy association and the National Organisation of Asbestos Consultants.

Musculoskeletal disorders are responsible for more than half (53%) of all work-related ill health cases in construction.

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.

A construction company and two workers have been sentenced after a fellow worker suffered an electric shock at a farm and had to be resuscitated.

A building contractor has received a £600,000 fine, while its director must complete 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £4,200 after failing to manage the risk of fire at a site.

Brick manufacturer Kenoteq, which produces bricks made from recycled construction waste, is to trial exoskeleton suits in its factory.

There’s just a fortnight left to register for the Digital Construction Summit, which take place on 1-10 November. The key event for digital decision-makers in the built environment comprises five webinars, held across four days.

A groundworks contractor in Kent has received a £10,000 fine after a worker was seriously burned when a co-worker used petrol on a bonfire.

Falls from an elevated platform are almost always fatal, as new analysis of accident data by the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) illustrates.

Construction Management is set to launch Safe Working at Height Week next month (7-13 November).

A building firm has received a fine for putting workers working at height at risk during the refurbishment of a former warehouse building in London. The company also breached a prohibition notice.

Construction companies are being urged to follow a simple process to check for substandard PPE, amid growing evidence that PPE that isn’t fit for purpose is reaching the UK market.