The director of a Leicester-based construction company has been given a suspended prison sentence after a man fell from height while working on site and died in hospital weeks later.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is recruiting four registered building inspectors to join the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) on a permanent basis.

Despite increased awareness and initiatives around the declining state of mental health among construction workers, it remains one of the most challenging and persistent problems in the industry.

Piper Homes has been fined £300,000 after a 33-year-old kitchen fitter was crushed to death by a pack of concrete blocks at a site in the Cotswolds.

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 company and its director have been fined a combined £18,000 after a man was injured during excavation work in West Sussex.

A company now in liquidation and its operations manager have both been fined after a worker fell to his death through a roof at the firm’s site in Dudley.

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.

A scaffolding company has been fined £30,000 after failing to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A South Wales renovation company has been £40,000 and ordered to pay almost £6,000 in costs after defying enforcement notices from the HSE.

CCTV footage shared by the Health and Safety Executive shows the moment a welder was crushed while working at a shipyard in Sunderland.

A multi-national wood manufacturer has been fined more than £1m after two workers were injured in separate incidents at its plant in Cowie.

Network Rail has been fined £3.75m and ordered to pay costs of £175,000 after the deaths of two track workers in 2019.

A self-employed roofer has received a suspended prison sentence after a man suffered serious injuries after falling from a scaffold in Devon.

A specialist contractor with “outdated attitudes to managing health and safety” has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham.

A solar panel installer business has been fined £120,000 after one of its employees broke his leg while working on a property in Salisbury.

BAM Nuttall has been fined £800,000 after a 23-year-old agency worker died when a skip’s bale arm fell on top of him during the construction of a wind farm on the Shetland Islands.