Tinnitus is a serious condition affecting many in the construction industry, including Kingsley Clarke. Ahead of Tinnitus Awareness Week on 6 February, he explains how to take preventive measures.

A building firm that allowed a digger to be used to lift a pair of workers to fit a stone on a new home has been fined £120,000.

A coalition of safety groups has urged the government to reconsider sunsetting EU safety laws protecting workers.

Government plans to ‘sunset’ EU derived legislation could result in construction safety standards sliding back to the levels of the 1970s.

MPs want to see silica dust monitoring introduced and reclassification of chronic occupational lung disease silicosis as a notifiable disease.

Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) has been fined £146,000 after a joiner was crushed to death by a 20-tonne excavator.

The new Building Safety Regulator is consulting on two documents laying out professional ethics. The BSR was set up following the Grenfell tragedy and will be operating as part of…

A Scottish firm has been fined £80,000 after a man died following an electrical explosion due to poorly maintained apparatus.

A win for leaseholders on overcharging could bring relief to high-rise home owners caught up in the building safety crisis following the Grenfell tragedy.

FCIOB calls for change to safety regulations governing care homes after mother-in-law’s death in fire. Will Mann reports.

FCIOB Steven Miles and his wife Claire have been campaigning to change the regulations on fire safety in care homes.

Chronic exposure to mould led to the tragic death of toddler Awaab Ishak. Steve Hodgson argues that tougher enforcement of Approved Document F is required.

A building company director has received a suspended prison sentence and a property development company a £100,000 fine after a wall fatally crushed a labourer.

The government could scrap the UK’s Work at Height Regulations at the end of 2023 unless campaigners can convince ministers to retain them.

Managers of buildings including schools, hospitals and social housing should urgently review their management plans amid fears that asbestos left in buildings as “safe” could now be in a damaged state.

What is psychological safety? Alex Minett explains the concept and looks at how it could improve health and safety in the construction workplace

Once-in-a-generation reforms to the construction industry in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) will mean that students in the sector in 2030 will look back on buildings built in 2016-17 and ask themselves “did we really stoop to that level”?

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.