The Building Safety Regulator has sanctioned two building control companies following minor breaches of the code of conduct for approved inspectors.

The National Grid has been fined more than £3m after its failures left a worker with life-changing injuries from working on a pylon in South Wales.

Disturbing construction fatalities figures show that the industry needs to do more to improve health and safety, writes Caroline Gumble.

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after he put the lives of workers at risk on a construction site in London.

A coroner has raised concerns about the common practice among road maintenance workers to use the space between the rear axles of trucks to urinate after a man was fatally run over.

Two companies have been fined a total of £76,000 after a worker was crushed to death by a machine on 24 February 2020.

A recycling company has been fined £3m after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig.

A Cheshire-based electrical transmission company has been fined £240,000 after a man was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work.

EMC Elite Engineering Services Ltd has been fined £52,500 after an employee sustained serious injuries while working at an HS2 construction site in Hertfordshire.

Avant Homes has been fined £333,000 after a driver was crushed to death by falling concrete blocks at a construction site in South Lanarkshire.

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.