The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to reduce hearing loss and hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) on construction sites.

Oxfordshire-based contractor WG Carter has been fined £120,000 after a carpenter died when he fell through an unsafe first floor whilst working on a house refurbishment scheme in Gloucestershire.

Housebuilder St James and specialist contractor Lindner Prater have been fined £1.3m after a window unit fell on a luxury development and killed a coach driver. Mick Ferris, 53, was…

A housebuilder has been fined £300,000 after a labourer was severely injured after falling one storey onto concrete through a stairwell opening on a site in West Yorkshire.

A construction director was jailed this week for eight years following the death of a worker on a housing renovation project in Suffolk.

Dame Judith Hackitt has criticised the industry’s continued use of outdated design and build contracts and called for a massive improvement in CPD to improve safety and quality standards.

Two contractors have been fined more than £1m after a worker was crushed to death when an unsupported trench collapsed at a site in Surrey.

We are now waking up to the significant risk batteries pose on building sites says Matthew Partridge Early in 2025, a lithium-ion battery caught fire overnight on a major UK…

A telehandler operator has been handed a suspended prison sentence after reversing over a colleague on a Cheshire construction site, causing fatal injuries.

The extension compromised gas safety and put the lives of the homeowner and her two children at risk.

Wirral Council has been fined £6,000 after a worker suffered a fractured collarbone and broken ribs when a stepladder collapsed beneath him.

A contractor has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell through an unprotected roof light on to a concrete floor whilst on a housing refurbishment scheme in Fulham, west London.…

An event structure company and its director have been fined after an employee suffered severe injuries, including fracturing her back while dismantling an internal steel frame.

The number of deaths caused by falls from height in construction has dropped by a third in the last year, according to figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A cement company has been fined £1m after one of its workers was killed when he was crushed by machinery in a cement bagging plant. Martin Bennett, 35, was crushed…

A school trust has been fined £32,000 after a site supervisor fell from the roof of a school in Burnley suffering traumatic injuries.

Two construction workers died in falls on sites in London and Birmingham in successive days last week.

A property management company has been fined and its director given a suspended sentence after a teenage apprentice was killed while working on a property in North Wales.