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 Risk & Compliance software provider collaborates with HSE and Costain to improve risk management on worksites

Friday 17th March 2023
A Belfast-based Risk & Compliance software provider has been collaborating with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and construction giant Costain as part of an ongoing project to unlock artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential in improving the management of risks on worksites.
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 Musculoskeletal disorders in construction

Thursday 2nd March 2023
Ian Whittles, an HSE construction inspector, reveals the cultural challenges in the sector, the drive behind the Work Right campaign and the musculoskeletal benefits it hopes to achieve.
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 Principal contractor handed £146k fine for fatal excavator crush goes into liquidation

Tuesday 14th February 2023
Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction project in Derbyshire that was building a concrete overflow weir structure on the site. The Midlands firm had brought in steel fixers and joiners to undertake the work.
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 Farmyard electrocution led to three separate sentences

Wednesday 21st December 2022
On 30 September 2019, an employee of Connop and Son Ltd was pouring concrete at Worton Grounds Farm near Banbury when the arm of a mobile concrete pump he was using came into contact with an overhead powerline.
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 Construction firm fined £600,000 after workers found sleeping on site

Tuesday 13th December 2022
We look at how sentencing guidelines were used to fine one company £600,000 and order its director to pay a £4200 fine and undertake 100 hours of unpaid work
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 £300,000 fine after 18-year-old killed on domestic construction site

Tuesday 11th October 2022
Two companies and two people have been sentenced after a teenage construction worker was fatally injured while working on a house-build construction site in Lincolnshire.
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 £600K fine over 7-year-old’s death

Monday 5th September 2022
A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a missing seven-year-old child was found dead by workers on a construction site.
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 HSE publishes revised construction fire safety guidance

Thursday 1st September 2022
The GB Health and Safety Executive has recently published a revised version of its fire safety in construction (HSG168) document. 
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 Unite’s FoI requests highlight decline in HSE’s ‘proactive’ construction inspections

Tuesday 9th August 2022
A series of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests made by the trade union Unite (https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2022/august/frightening-drop-in-construction-safety-inspections-exposed/) has highlighted a significant decline in the number of ‘proactive’ inspections that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has made in the construction sector since 2013/14.
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 Skanska bans swing-up lorry loaders after site death

Friday 8th July 2022
Lorry loaders fitted with hydraulic tilting and deployment stabiliser legs are to be banned from all Skanska UK sites.
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