A director and a contracts manager of an asbestos management company have been jailed, and their company fined £100,000, after failing to protect workers from exposure.

Contractors and developers were responsible for more than a quarter (26%) of all incidents where workers were digging too close to high-pressure pipelines.

An influential group of MPs has called on the government to commit to removing all asbestos from public and commercial buildings within 40 years.

Much of a three-storey home collapsed during loft conversion works, causing workers to flee the site, because it had insufficient temporary supports, a court has heard.

Two construction company owners have been convicted of health and safety offences, including one conviction of manslaughter by gross negligence, after a worker fell to his death on a building site in Hove.

What is in the amended PPE regulations, who are ‘limb (b) workers’, and do they work in construction?

A principal contractor and subcontractor have been fined a total of over £1m after a cable strike at an electricity substation.

Panelised modern methods of construction (MMC) for new homes can reduce health and safety hazard exposure by 20% on construction sites.

How to spot signs of stress in your construction colleagues and what you can do to help.

Builders were involved in the highest number of cable damage incidents over the past year.

Alex Minett explains the purpose of risk assessment method statements and how to make sure yours are compliant

Hong Kong wants to improve its poor safety record and has asked for help from British specialists. Rod Sweet explains.

A real-time silica dust detection system for workers operating in hazardous environments is the first of its kind, its manufacturers claim.

A man has received a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, after he secured a series of demolition jobs by falsifying documents and posing as a registered asbestos-removal specialist.

Construction puts workers at risk of developing hand-arm vibration syndrome. Billy O’Brien advises construction managers what to look out for and how to prevent it.

A contractor has been handed a suspended prison sentence after HSE inspectors found workers undertaking unsafe excavation work without PPE.

Construction Management is running a survey to assess how ready construction professionals are for the new building safety regime.

There is huge potential for the construction sector to use exoskeletons to protect people from injury and long-term pain.