News Construction director and firm fined for safety failings A construction company director and his firm have been fined after failing to comply with multiple enforcement notices and for failing to suitably plan, manage and monitor construction work.
News Construction firm fined £60k after worker’s stairwell fall A construction company has been fined £60,000 following a wall collapse, which knocked an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.
News Construction firms fined following site safety failings A property refurbishment company and a roofing contractor have both been fined after a worker fell from scaffolding and suffered life-changing injuries.
News Contractor sentenced after worker falls from height A construction company in Hampshire has been fined £80,000 after a man fell more than 15ft through a skylight during roof repair work.
News Roofer sentenced after ‘flagrant disregard’ for HSE A roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector.
News Building Safety Regulator to exit HSE in January The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published draft regulations to move the functions of the Building Safety Regulator out of the Health and Safety Executive, into an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by MHCLG.
News Client sentenced after worker found dead on building site A construction client has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was found dead on a building site in north London.
News Firm fined after worker falls from roof and fractures skull A construction company has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a partially constructed barn in Shropshire.
News HSE inspectors target Manchester construction sites The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced a series of inspections at construction sites across Manchester city centre.
News Highways firm handed £1m fine after worker death A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022.
News Two firms fined £95k after worker falls through rooflight The Health and Safety Executive has successfully prosecuted two companies after a construction worker fell through a rooflight at a factory, impaling his leg on machinery below.
News FPS publishes updated rig safety guidance The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has published the latest edition of its Working Platform Certificate (WPC/4e).
News Builder avoids jail after roof collapse injures three and destroys home A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed an occupied home and injured three workers in Windsor.
News Contractor fined after collapsing wall kills ‘full of life’ employee A building company has been fined £56,775 after one of its employees was crushed to death when a 1.8m high retaining wall collapsed onto him.
News Builder fined after boy’s skull fractured by falling pipe A construction company and its director have been fined after being found guilty of safety breaches that resulted in a five-year-old child being injured by a falling cast iron pipe.
News HSE finds most workplaces lack essential noise protection knowledge Ninety-five percent of employers in recent inspections by the HSE failed to verify whether workers wearing hearing protection could still detect vital warning signals, such as fire alarms and vehicle reversing alerts.
News HSE issues plant safety warning HSE is warning about the risk of people being struck by an excavator or a load if the machine’s operator doesn’t use the isolation device correctly.
News Tata Steel fined £1.5m after ‘basic’ H&S failures that led to contractor’s death Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m after following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019.
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