Analysis of the Health and Safety Executive’s figures on work-related ill-health, non-fatal, and fatal workplace injuries in construction in 2020/21.

Trevor Hall explains the main regulations that need to be observed to protect workers from cold conditions on site.

A new, one-page asbestos risk guide aimed at small construction businesses and tradespeople who work with or disturb building fabric has been launched.

Brick manufacturer Ibstock Brick has been fined £530,000 after a worker’s hand became entangled and wrapped around the rotating shaft on a lathe.

As the party season draws closer, Suzannah Robin, a drug safety expert at AlcoDigital, offers a guide for workplace testing.

The CIOB has published a technical information sheet entitled Smoke Control Management to support the construction industry’s drive towards increased health and safety in buildings.

Two companies have been fined nearly £900,000 after a 74-year-old security guard at a remote wind farm in Ayrshire died of hyperthermia.

Improved health and safety is a great argument for BIM adoption, and Australian professor Kerry London is set on proving that. She tells Rod Sweet about her research.

A new CM survey in association with helmet safety technology company Mips has revealed a lack of training and awareness around head injuries and their possible causes.

A company has been fined after a worker was fatally electrocuted whilst operating a lorry mounted crane.

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is to test two different types of exoskeletons for construction tasks, as part of a new set of field trials.

Network Rail has been working with Atkins’ digital team to keep vegetation off the rails, reducing the need for the workforce to undertake on-foot inspections in the hazardous live railway environment. Denise Chevin reports.

Construction equipment on sites found to be breaching the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) increased by 40% during the first half of 2021, according to new findings.

Civil engineering contractor Dyer & Butler has trialled a remote-control breaker while excavating around an unidentified cable discovered at Heathrow Airport.

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.

Construction businesses will be urged to down tools temporarily in October to focus on the wellbeing of individual workers, particularly those affected by covid-19.

Trustmark, the government-endorsed quality scheme covering work in consumers’ homes, has urged tradespeople and homeowners to retain safe working measures when legally binding covid-19 restrictions end on 19 July.

Increasing air quality risks and a wave of impending legislation could change how the built environment sector operates, writes Helen Mitcheson