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.

Nationwide inspection campaign will focus on construction sites this summer 

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.

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.

Ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Nicky Rance explains why the right culture is crucial to delivering the highest standards in construction

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.

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has written to the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), urging it to tackle drug and alcohol abuse in the construction industry 

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 (AI) on its excavators to reduce health and safety risks