The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has published its response to the call for evidence on the Single Construction Regulator’s new strategy, calling for closer collaboration to improve safety across the built environment.
A West Midlands-based contractor has been fined after the Health and Safety Executive identified repeated safety breaches across four separate construction sites.
A Staffordshire-based contractor and its director have been fined following a serious fall-from-height incident during the construction of an apartment block.
Two companies have been fined after an employee was killed and a colleague left with life-altering injuries when a cherrypicker collided with an overhead powerline at a Devon biogas site.
For construction firms around the world, safety is a key priority. Yet construction remains one of the riskiest work environments. Data from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation reveals that more than one in five construction workers globally (22%) have experienced injury at work between 2022 and 2024.
Daniel Jenner, trading as Jenner Roofing and Building Services, received an eight-month suspended sentence after a worker fell four metres through a rooflight to the concrete floor below.
A trip to the most heavily populated city in the world might be an extreme way of demonstrating it, but the use of tactile paving isn’t always the right solution when it comes to aiding accessibility.
Vasilis Paraskeva and his London-based company, VNP Constructions Limited, have been fined nearly £20,000 in total after failing to comply with enforcement notices.
