A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from exposure to asbestos at a development project in Winchester.

If there’s an accident on your site and the HSE investigates, what happens next? A ‘mock trial’ shows how proceedings work in a health and safety prosecution.

A Hertfordshire company has been fined after a 22-year-old employee was crushed to death by an excavator.

NG Bailey Limited has been fined £135,000 following the death of a worker last year.

A company has been fined £40,000 after an electrician sustained serious burns to his body that left him unable to work.

Construction company Amberley Homes (Kent) Ltd has been fined £25,000 after a sub-contractor fell and died from his injuries.

A construction company and a roofing contractor have been fined after a roofer suffered multiple fractures in a fall from a building roof.

A company director has been fined £5,000 after he falsified asbestos removal documents while his firm worked on a block of flats in Brighton.

HACS Construction Limited was fined £330,500 after a worker was struck on the head and killed by a 16-ton excavator.

A Kent scaffolding company has been fined and its director given a suspended prison sentence after a scaffolder suffered an 11kV electric shock.

The Health and Safety Executive will perform checks on how asbestos is managed in buildings to ensure that the right arrangements are in place.

Nationwide has been fined £900,000 after a man was crushed to death while attempting to move a scissor lift at the company’s workshop in Liskeard, Cornwall, on 4 November 2021.

A company and its director have been sentenced after an employee fell from height and suffered serious injuries.

Shell and Ampelmann Operations have been fined a combined total of more than £1.2m after a worker’s feet were crushed while walking along a gangway over the North Sea.

Newport City Council has been fined £2m after a man was killed while carrying out road repair works on 18 July 2019.

A roofing firm has been fined a total of £881,000 after two workers were seriously injured in separate incidents.

The Access Industry Forum is calling for clearer reporting of workplace accidents to reduce accidents and save lives. By Peter Bennett.

A further two companies have been fined after a man died following a fall from the roof of a building site.