A builder has been jailed for three years and three months after a man was killed on a building site in Chilworth, Hampshire when a wall collapsed on him in 2019.

Two companies have been fined nearly £900,000 after a 74-year-old security guard at a remote wind farm in Ayrshire died of hyperthermia.

Construction is one of five sectors that will be targeted in a new mental health campaign by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A construction firm has been fined more than £60,000 after an employee fell 6m through a fragile roof sheet while working on a barn at a farm in Amesbury. Wiltshire.

The managing director of a scaffolding company has been handed a suspended jail sentence and a fine after an employee died when he was struck from behind by a forklift truck.

As the Building Safety Bill progresses through Parliament, chief inspector of buildings Peter Baker tells Neil Gerrard why construction professionals need to start preparing for change now.

A company has been fined after a worker was fatally electrocuted whilst operating a lorry mounted crane.

A worker who fell nearly 5m from a scaffold tower whose safety rail had not been fixed correctly, suffered 10 broken ribs, a fractured shoulder and a collapsed lung.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to target construction firms with a month-long campaign to check that measures to protect workers from dust are up to scratch, starting on Monday 4 October.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has conducted a total of 3,337 spot checks on construction sites since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and has so far made one prosecution, it has revealed.

The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) BIM 4 Health & Safety Working Group is working with the UK BIM Alliance to develop guidance for construction clients on using BIM to improve design risk management.

An Israeli business is set to introduce robotic manufacturing of concrete products to the construction industry in Europe and North America.

A construction firm has been fined £34,000 after a worker was struck by a falling hydraulic breaker, leading to the amputation of his right leg below the knee.

The construction industry is being encouraged to start talking about employee stress with the launch of a joint initiative between the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and Health & Safety Executive (HSE).