The Digital Construction Awards health and safety winners showed the benefits of investing in technology, writes Lesley McLeod.

L Lynch’s autobraking on dump trucks technology, developed with Safety Shield Global and SCS JV, won the Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing category – sponsored by the Association for Project Safety – at the Digital Construction Awards last night (4 July).

HSE has launched a targeted inspection operation focusing on manufacturing businesses that use materials containing silica.

The number of unannounced inspections by the Health and Safety Executive in the construction industry has fallen to a record low, the second-largest trade union in the UK has found.

Chris Tidy, founder of Hard Hat Awareness Week, explains why he and his colleagues launched HHAW four years ago.

Ahead of Diabetes Awareness Week this month, Kate Walker looks at the safety, compliance and productivity risks for construction companies not aware of their legal obligations to workers.

CM is partnering with Safe Working at Height Week, which returns this year during 6-12 November.

Retrofitting and recycling will help cut construction’s carbon footprint – but too often we overlook the safety risks in the process, says Lesley McLeod.

Brian Newell explains the key points of a new international porcelain cladding standard – and how it should improve build quality.

Construction charity We Build the Future has launched a sun safety campaign to help reduce the risk and incidence of skin cancer among people working in the built environment sector. 

The UK’s built environment is in danger of becoming less safe because the industry is failing to attract new design risk professionals.

A Sheffield-based construction and telecommunication company has been fined £550,000 after an employee fell from a stepladder and was impaled on metal piping.

Two company directors have been jailed and given combined fines of £1.6m after a wall collapsed killing five men.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has released its report into an incident of a track worker who was struck last year by a train near Chalfont & Latimer station, Buckinghamshire.

HSE has launched a campaign aimed at the construction industry to prevent lung disease as a result of dust at work.

UK Power Networks has issued a safety warning to construction workers after their engineers found live electric cables left in a dangerous state on a number of sites.

Two major contractors have issued warnings about the health and safety risks caused by operators using construction equipment which they are not familiar with.

A construction worker has died on a HS2 site in the West Midlands.