A contractor has been fined £18,000 after an employee fell fifteen feet from scaffolding, resulting in ten fractured ribs, a fractured shoulder and a collapsed lung.
Principal contractor Umar Akram Khatab has been sentenced to a 12-month community order after multiple health and safety issues were identified during a Covid spot check in Manchester.
Almost 500 construction workers take their own lives every year in the UK and Ireland. An emotive video has been released to provide guidance for anybody affected, ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day.
The Construction Industry Coronavirus (CICV) Forum has issued another in its series of advice videos, reminding workers how to keep themselves and others safe as the Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed.
Amey Consulting has launched an employee wellbeing app, in partnership with FormScore – employees can track their moods and be open about how they are feeling.
A consistent approach to supporting construction workers’ mental health is the goal of a new initiative led by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and CITB.
The BESA and ECA have joined forces to produce guidance for members and the wider industry alongside a warning that the pandemic has ‘still not relaxed’.
Michael Smithers, a self-employed fitter has been jailed after carrying out gas work at a residential address in the New Forest whilst he was not competent to do so, leaving a gas boiler in an ‘at risk’ condition.
Over half of fatal injuries to workers in 2020/21 were in the construction sector and agriculture, the number of work-related death in construction was 39, a decrease of 3 from the previous year.
