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).

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.