A builder who threatened inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and told them his name was James Bond has been fined.

A construction company director and his firm have been fined after failing to comply with multiple enforcement notices and for failing to suitably plan, manage and monitor construction work.

A construction company has been fined £60,000 following a wall collapse, which knocked an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.

A property refurbishment company and a roofing contractor have both been fined after a worker fell from scaffolding and suffered life-changing injuries.

A construction company in Hampshire has been fined £80,000 after a man fell more than 15ft through a skylight during roof repair work.  

A roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published draft regulations to move the functions of the Building Safety Regulator out of the Health and Safety Executive, into an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by MHCLG.

A construction client has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was found dead on a building site in north London.

A construction company has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a partially constructed barn in Shropshire.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced a series of inspections at construction sites across Manchester city centre.

A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.

The Health and Safety Executive has successfully prosecuted two companies after a construction worker fell through a rooflight at a factory, impaling his leg on machinery below. 

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

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed an occupied home and injured three workers in Windsor.

A building company has been fined £56,775 after one of its employees was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him.

A construction company and its director have been fined after being found guilty of safety breaches that resulted in a five-year-old child being injured by a falling cast iron pipe.

Ninety-five percent of employers in recent inspections by the HSE failed to verify whether workers wearing hearing protection could still detect vital warning signals, such as fire alarms and vehicle reversing alerts.

HSE is warning about the risk of people being struck by an excavator or a load if the machine’s operator doesn’t use the isolation device correctly.