Lifting equipment manufacturer Genie has received a £270,000 fine after the miscalibration of one of its machines led it to fall into the M25, killing an access company employee.

HSE flags concerns on more than 50% of proposals, as Hackitt tells CIOB conference industry is still resisting change.

A court has handed jail terms to two construction company bosses after a worker fell to his death.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will target construction sites during a month-long respiratory health campaign in June.

Two men have received suspended sentences and fines after a worker fell over five metres through fragile roof panels and died.

A court has fined Lancashire County Council £50,000 after several of its employees developed hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).

The Health and Safety Executive has issued a safety alert over mast climbing work platforms (MCWPs), warning of a “serious technical fault”.

A contractor has been handed a suspended prison sentence after HSE inspectors found workers undertaking unsafe excavation work without PPE.

Four men have received suspended prison sentences after a worker was killed when the former Citadel Church in Splott, Cardiff, collapsed during demolition work.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to target Birmingham construction sites, as development in the city has increased in the run-up to the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

A contractor has been sentenced for two separate safety breachers, after a worker was struck by a falling excavator and another sustained severe crush injuries when he was dragged under an excavator.

Cleveland Bridge, which collapsed into administration last year, has been fined £1.5m after an electrician died in an 8m fall from a crane.

The Health and Safety Executive has created a new toolkit to help inform owners and managers of high-rise buildings about the new safety case regime.

Analysis of the Health and Safety Executive’s figures on work-related ill-health, non-fatal, and fatal workplace injuries in construction in 2020/21.

Brick manufacturer Ibstock Brick has been fined £530,000 after a worker’s hand became entangled and wrapped around the rotating shaft on a lathe.

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).