A contractor has been sentenced for two separate safety breachers, after a worker was struck by a falling excavator and another sustained severe crush injuries when he was dragged under an excavator.

Cleveland Bridge, which collapsed into administration last year, has been fined £1.5m after an electrician died in an 8m fall from a crane.

The Health and Safety Executive has created a new toolkit to help inform owners and managers of high-rise buildings about the new safety case regime.

Analysis of the Health and Safety Executive’s figures on work-related ill-health, non-fatal, and fatal workplace injuries in construction in 2020/21.

Brick manufacturer Ibstock Brick has been fined £530,000 after a worker’s hand became entangled and wrapped around the rotating shaft on a lathe.

A builder has been jailed for three years and three months after a man was killed on a building site in Chilworth, Hampshire when a wall collapsed on him in 2019.

Two companies have been fined nearly £900,000 after a 74-year-old security guard at a remote wind farm in Ayrshire died of hyperthermia.

Construction is one of five sectors that will be targeted in a new mental health campaign by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A construction firm has been fined more than £60,000 after an employee fell 6m through a fragile roof sheet while working on a barn at a farm in Amesbury. Wiltshire.

The managing director of a scaffolding company has been handed a suspended jail sentence and a fine after an employee died when he was struck from behind by a forklift truck.

As the Building Safety Bill progresses through Parliament, chief inspector of buildings Peter Baker tells Neil Gerrard why construction professionals need to start preparing for change now.

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).