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.

Ahead of Hard Hat Awareness Week in June, we are surveying CM readers on their experiences of current safety practices in construction and how they mitigate head injuries.

The government has published the long-awaited Independent Review of the Construction Product Testing Regime – with a major shake-up in the regulatory system likely to follow.

Construction industry charity Lighthouse Club has launched a campaign to raise mental health awareness and prevent suicide in the construction sector.

Two construction companies have been sentenced after a worker was hospitalised for nearly two weeks after being struck by a 124kg panel.

Civil engineering contractor RJ McLeod has been fined £800,000 after a 10-year-old boy died on a building site in Glasgow.

Construction group Barhale is using artificial intelligence on its excavators to reduce health and safety risks.

Creagh Concrete Products has been fined £1m after a 24-year-old man died at a site in Nottingham.

The Health and Safety Executive is warning tradespeople in the UK about the ‘hidden dangers’ linked to asbestos.

Amey has been fined £533,334 after a worker suffered an electrical shock injury while working outside a London station.

Racing car group McLaren has been fined £650,000 after a man fell to his death during an inspection at one of the company’s facilities.

A garden landscaping company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry.

A property owner has been given a 12-month community order and told to do 80 hours of unpaid work after a worker sustained life changing injuries when a wall collapsed on top of him during a barn conversion.

CIOB has joined other leading built environment professional bodies in calling on the government to review the rules for staircases in high-rise buildings.

The accident happened at a domestic property in North London in March 2019. It involved a man in his thirties who sustained head injuries while working on concrete pumping operations carried out by London-based company Singh Will Mix It Ltd.

As chair of the working group that created the framework, Dame Judith Hackitt tells Will Mann how it will plug gaps in the current regulatory system.

Chartered Building Company Majestic Site Management is offering a suite of site safety courses, with discounts for CIOB members.