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 Parliamentary inquiry has been launched into the devastating impact that silicosis – a life-shortening lung disease – has on construction workers and their families.
Construction 360 Ltd has been fined £15,000 for safety breaches after a worker collapsed and lost consciousness while working at the site of King Asia Foods Ltd in Sheffield.
Two railway workers tragically died yesterday (3 July) when they were struck by a passenger train near Port Talbot, the British Transport Police has confirmed.
A company director has received a Community Service Order and two construction companies have been fined after a worker suffered life-changing injuries following a fall from height.
Bristol City Council has today (1 July) launched its first Traffic Clean Air Zone consultation on two options to lower pollution in the shortest possible time.
A roofing contractor has been sentenced for failing to take adequate steps to prevent his workers from falling from height and for breaching a prohibition notice.
Two contractors have been fined after a scaffold company employee suffered fatal injuries following a fall through a fragile roof during construction work at a factory in Staffordshire.
A construction company has been fined more than £800,000 after a worker suffered three fractured vertebrae when he was hit on the head by a large expanded polystyrene block.
A self-employed builder has been given a suspended jail sentence after a three year-old girl suffered severe head injuries when a length of timber fell on her whilst being hoisted up the outside of a scaffold.
A company, two directors and a self-employed contractor have been sentenced and fined after an electrician fell two storeys through an unprotected stairwell.
An engineering fabrication firm based in Warrington has been fined £22,000 after a worker suffered severe crush injuries when he was crushed by a metal frame.
David Pojur, health and safety barrister at St John’s Buildings Chambers, comments on the risky definitions of roles when working at height, and the potential implications when corners are cut.
