Deaths in construction have risen with a worker dying almost every week. Last year, 51 people died at work in construction compared with 47 the previous year, Health and Safety…

The Health & Safety Executive’s live trial pioneering the use of sensors and safety zones with 3D modelling won the Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing category, sponsored by Mission Room, at the Digital Construction Awards last night (2 July).

A Wiltshire canal charity has been fined £30,000 after a voluntary worker was fatally crushed.

BAM Nuttall has been fined £2.345m after a worker drowned in the River Aire on 30 October 2017.

Van Elle has been fined £233,000 after a 52-year-old HGV driver was struck and killed by the mast of a piling rig.

UK telecommunications company Openreach has been fined £1.34 million after an engineer died while trying to repair a telephone line.

The Health and Safety Executive has updated its guidance on registered building inspectors to include details about what constitutes a conflict of interest.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for Delivering Sustainability with Digital Innovation.

The Digital Construction Awards attracted 165 entries this year, 84 of which have been shortlisted. Here, we detail the shortlisted entries for Digital Innovation in Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

A Manchester roofing company has been fined £20,000 after a worker fell through a roof and suffered serious injuries.

A company director has been fined after workers were exposed to asbestos during the demolition of a hotel in Cornwall.

A carpentry contractor has been fined £8,000 after a 22-year-old man died following an accident at a building site.

A Manchester building company and its director have been sentenced after workers were exposed to asbestos.

MHS Homes has been fined £528,000 after an employee repairing a fence post inadvertently struck an underground cable, suffering burns to his face.

Erith has been fined £175,000 following the death of one of its employees.

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.