Storms, icy weather, floods and extreme heat caused significant disruption according construction workers surveyed ahead of World Day for Safety and Health at Work.
Firefighters were called after a tower crane section fell onto a flat roof of a building at Smethwick’s Midland Metropolitan Hospital yesterday (9 March) morning.
An unregistered gas fitter operating as a director of Master Plumbing Contractors Limited has been sentenced for carrying out gas work without being registered with Gas Safe.
A roofing company has been fined £20,000 after a worker fell around three metres through a roof light and suffered a fractured pelvis and spinal injuries.
Lives are still being put at risk by companies failing to manage exposure to asbestos, according to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
A Devon based hoteliers has been found guilty and fined £80,000 after materials containing asbestos were disturbed during a major refurbishment at The Park Hotel in Barnstaple.
A Salford building contractor has received 180 hours of community service after exposing workers to the danger of falls from height and exposure to silica dust.
A construction company has been fined £9,400 after an employee sustained serious injuries to his back after falling through stairs that had been partly installed.
Social housing residents are to team up with their landlords to trial innovative methods of communicating building safety matters to residents as part of a new Government-appointed group.
A construction company has been fined £900,000 after an employee died when he sustained head injuries when a wall collapsed on a construction site at Lyme Regis.
The circumstances surrounding the two fires at the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building should be the subject of a public inquiry, says government committee.
Specialists in Hand Arm Vibration (HAV), Reactec, have collaborated with a software consultancy firm to develop a new automated management tracking and reporting system for HAV risk management.
Pure Water Environmental Services Ltd has been fined after failings which led to the contamination of drinking water supply to 83 residential apartments located in Worcester.
