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.

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.

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).