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.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has conducted a total of 3,337 spot checks on construction sites since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and has so far made one prosecution, it has revealed.

The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) BIM 4 Health & Safety Working Group is working with the UK BIM Alliance to develop guidance for construction clients on using BIM to improve design risk management.

A construction firm has been fined £34,000 after a worker was struck by a falling hydraulic breaker, leading to the amputation of his right leg below the knee.

The construction industry is being encouraged to start talking about employee stress with the launch of a joint initiative between the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and Health & Safety Executive (HSE).