An Oxfordshire-based construction company has been fined £120,000 after a carpenter died from a fall from height while carrying out refurbishment work.
Heather Bryant, Balfour Beatty’s Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Director has revealed how the company intends to eliminate HAV syndrome across all sites by 2020.
A contractor has been fined after a worker fell through a roof and suffered three fractured vertebrae, a displaced ribcage and a fractured heel as a result.
Having grown revenues by 51% (YOY), Mick George Environmental received some more welcome news from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to kick-start 2019.
Protostar Construction Ltd has been fined £14,000 after serious safety failings with regards to the management and removal of asbestos at a site in London.
With long hours, demanding workloads and projects that are often short-term and far from home, it’s no surprise that construction is a high-risk industry for workplace stress.
Thousands of homeless people will get the specialist support they need to recover from life on the streets through the creation of new rough sleeping centres.
A self-employed part-time roofer has been sentenced after both exposing a homeowner to carbon monoxide and putting co-workers at risk while working at height.
Two companies have been fined £180,000 after a structural engineer received serious crush injuries when a bundle of scaffold tubes rolled onto his legs while he was visiting a client’s construction site.
