A conference next month will examine how construction’s safety agenda must move beyond compliance and regulation.

Muzammil Rafi’s research for his Msc in Project Management examined how language and cultural differences influence safety understanding, behaviour and everyday site operations.

Building safety reform is quietly shifting the industry from point-in-time certification to continuous compliance, argues Gary Ng of viAct.

Contractors are calling for industry wide protocols to be introduced for working in heatwaves to reduce risks for site teams.

A new app has been launched to help contractors record incidents, hazards and near misses at the point they occur.

Leading steel contractor William Hare has saved more than one million sheets of paper after moving all its quality, safety and operations to a single connected digital system.

Does the HSE’s decision to leave the CDM regulations as is suggest a wider change in the construction sector? Emma Evans analyses the details.

CM’s inaugural Powered Access in Construction survey offers a detailed snapshot of how powered access equipment is perceived and used across the industry.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has announced a new framework designed to support product safety and regulatory reform across the built environment sector.

Government proposals to strengthen the construction products used in buildings across the UK have been published in an attempt to tackle unregulated practices.

Costain is working with the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and National Highways, to raise awareness of the dangers of ‘blue light incursions’.

Despite emerging mandates for secondary guarding, contractors are advised to prioritise robust, task-specific risk assessments to prevent crushing and entrapment incidents.

Digital approaches to health and safety should help construction sites to be safer places to work, but do they work equally well for staff and the self-employed? Melvin Keyani FCIOB, who sits on the CIOB HS&W Policy Review Panel, details why labour fragmentation must be considered when deploying digital safety approaches.

A construction company director and his firm have been fined after failing to comply with multiple enforcement notices and for failing to suitably plan, manage and monitor construction work.

A construction company has been fined £60,000 following a wall collapse, which knocked an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.

CIOB policy chief Eddie Tuttle reflects on a busy 12 months across the built environment sector.  

The government has confirmed it will introduce primary legislation to regulate the fire engineering profession, aimed at strengthening public safety and raising professional accountability.

A construction company in Hampshire has been fined £80,000 after a man fell more than 15ft through a skylight during roof repair work.