A restaurant owner has been fined after an asbestos insulation board was disturbed during the conversion of rooms above the restaurant into flats in Essex.
A company specialising in the manufacture and installation of industrial staircases has been fined after a worker became trapped resulting in the amputation of his leg.
A landscaping contractor has been fined £20,000 after failing to provide employees with adequate measures to prevent exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS).
Building Mental Health, a portal set up by industry volunteers discuss a framework to help the construction sector develop a positive mental health culture.
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.
