Health and Safety

A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after his employee fell through a fragile rooflight and suffered life-changing injuries, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The incident happened on 12 August 2023 when an employee of Kent-based Jenner Roofing and Building Services was cleaning and repairing…

HS2 bosses raised worries over contractors’ health and safety performance just months before a serious near-miss incident paused work on London tunnels, it has emerged. Newly released minutes from a series of HS2 board meetings from 2025 show that five RIDDOR incidents took place across the line in February that…

A site manager who pretended his name was James Bond has been ordered to pay more than £10,500 after he threatened inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). David Robert Lane, 59, was managing an extensive cottage refurbishment in Rugeley, Staffordshire, when two passing HSE inspectors witnessed unsafe working…

A worker in his 30s has died after an accident at a construction site in Sittingbourne, Kent. The victim was employed by an unnamed subcontractor on a site where Winvic is building a warehouse for frozen food firm Cook Trading Ltd. In a statement to Construction News, Kent Police said…

Seven construction workers who were suspended after downing tools at a refinery job over health and safety concerns will not be returning to the site. The employees were among a group of 30 suspended in December from client Johnson Matthey’s project, with unions alleging “unsafe” working conditions. The 30 workers…

A construction firm has been fined £1,000 after it repeatedly failed to comply with Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) notices about “unsafe scaffolding”. Fermanagh-based HICS Properties Ltd was visited by HSENI inspectors between May and August 2022 during its work at a housing development at Rosscah View,…

A London-based construction firm and its director have been fined a total of £18,000 after they failed to comply with enforcement notices issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Director Vasilis Paraskeva and his company VNP Constructions Ltd were appointed to work on a project to convert a former…

A High Court judge has ruled that a self-employed bricklayer who died of mesothelioma was directly recruited and employed by a contractor in an asbestos claim brought by his widow. Eric Alger worked as a bricklayer at the Prince Regent Hotel and Church refurbishment project on Manor Road, Chigwell, in…

A 36-year-old man has died after an incident at a demolition site in Paisley, Renfrewshire. Derek Russell was an employee of Caskie, the contractor delivering demolition works at the Waverley Road regeneration project for Renfrewshire Council. The father of six was taken to hospital on Friday (9 January) following an…

A construction company has been fined £60,000 after a wall collapsed and knocked an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below. Labourer Mark Jones was working for Cumbria-based Ace Infra Ltd at a site at NW Auctions Milnthorpe when the incident happened on 25 April 2024. He…