Construction

The parent company of a contractor that was building a wind farm in Scotland and a security firm that employed staff to guard the remote site have admitted safety breaches after a security guard was trapped in snow for four and half hours and later died from hypothermia.

A construction company has been fined £34,000 following an incident that resulted in one of its workers having their leg amputated below the knee.

Very tall constructions are still seeing workers killed every year. But experts argue that while the extreme height is what kills, being prepared is what prevents it.

Covid disruption, wide scale furloughing of workers and a 10% reduction in weekly hours worked has been accompanied by a 28% year-on-year increase in the number of work-related fatal accidents, according to Great Britain’s annual fatality statistics.

Two OSH regulatory lawyers explain the key provisions of the new Building Safety Bill in England.

Alistair Gibb, Wendy Jones and Eleanor Harvey discuss moving mega construction projects forward – what knowledge and skills do OSH professionals need?

The athletes’ village sits at the heart of every global sporting event. But building these temporary cities against the clock requires a robust OSH culture.

Construction giant BAM Nuttall has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an employee was run over by a dumper vehicle.

WorkSafe’s Life Shavers campaign will raise awareness of the need for workers who wear respiratory protective equipment (RPE) for work to be clean shaven.

Leaders who don’t sign up to the Building a Safer Future Charter will be conspicuous by their absence, warns the former HSE chair