Tilbury Douglas’ technical director, Mark Buckle, speaks to CM’s Mark Glover about the contractor’s humanoid robot Douglas and why AI will always need human oversight.

The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has published the latest edition of its Working Platform Certificate (WPC/4e).

Leeds Civic Trust has unveiled its 205th blue plaque to commemorate Elizabeth Garnett, who championed workers’ rights and pioneered social reform in Victorian Britain.

This month’s contract clinic centres on a refurb job where the scaffolding has blown down. Claire Burrows provides guidance on the legal implications.

Nationwide Platforms has installed its first fixed IPAF PAL+ training rig in the East Midlands.

With 150 directly employed staff working on fast-track fit-outs at any one time across the South East, health and safety is a priority for mechanical and electrical services company Bancroft.

A builder was given a community payback sentence after carrying out unlicensed asbestos removal work at a house in Cheadle, Manchester, in September 2022.

Doorbell-cam footage released by the Health and Safety Executive shows two workers clearing asbestos debris from a garden and disposing of it in domestic waste bins.

A London property developer has been fined £63,000 after HSE inspectors found health and safety failures “so serious” that led to a construction site in east London being closed down on two separate occasions.

IPAF has launched its 2025 safety campaign to help reduce injuries and fatalities across the powered access sector

A McCoy machine operator is still alive thanks to his colleagues’ quick thinking and the availability of an on-site defibrillator at the HMP Brinsford project site.

Esh Group has installed 55 defibrillators across its sites in the North East and Yorkshire.

The rate of construction workers suffering from work-related lung and musculoskeletal disorders is significantly higher than among workers from other industries, the latest HSE data shows.

Balfour Beatty said it has become the first tier one contractor to mandate human recognition cameras on certain items of plant and machinery across all of its UK operations. 

Morwenna Fellows’ PhD research uncovered the communication issues that arise on site where there is no shared first language. By Nicky Roger.

Wates Group has appointed Brian Long as its new group health, safety and wellbeing director.

In the 12-month period to September 2023 there were 707 fires in purpose-built high-rise (10 or more storeys) flats or maisonettes.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing.