Two men have received suspended sentences and fines after a worker fell over five metres through fragile roof panels and died.

Tony Abbott explains why contractors need to plan ahead when digging in busy towns and cities.

Railway contractor VolkerRail has been fined £550,000 after a worker suffered a broken pelvis and several broken ribs when he was buried after the wall of a trench collapsed.

Three quarters of fire doors failed inspections in the UK prompting a warning of a “tragedy waiting to happen”.

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) is co-ordinating the response to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) safety alert over mast climbing work platforms (MCWPs).

A court has fined Lancashire County Council £50,000 after several of its employees developed hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).

The Mental Health Foundation has announced ‘loneliness’ as the key theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, which starts on 9 May. So, how should construction employers address loneliness?

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served improvement notices to contractors Bouygues and Laing O’Rourke after a scaffold worker fell from height.

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.