Health and Safety

A self-employed builder has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work after a man fell to his death while helping him with a roofing job. Andrew Layley died in hospital weeks after falling from a domestic roof extension in Reading, Berkshire. The 69-year-old was working for Raffaele…

Two contractors have been fined over an incident where a worker impaled his leg after falling through a fragile rooflight while on a cladding job. The man was helping with the over-cladding of a factory’s asbestos cement roof when he stepped onto the fragile rooflight, causing him to fall through…

A London contractor has been given a suspended prison sentence after he ignored official warnings and put lives at risk, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE ordered Mohammed Mehdi Ali to stop working at a construction site in Willesden on 7 September 2018 after inspectors found…

Work on HS2’s London tunnels has been suspended after a serious incident where a beam struck a crane basket with two workers inside, Construction News understands. No one was hurt, but the Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS JV) flagged the issue with HS2 and has halted its work while…

An investigation has been launched after a construction worker was injured by a road resurfacing roller in an industrial accident. The man was working for Doncaster-based DBS Construction Ltd on 3 October when he was injured during road repairs, according to Doncaster Council. A member of the public raised the…

Former Grenfell Inquiry panellist Thouria Istephan has been appointed as the new interim chief construction adviser. In Tuesday’s second progress report on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 2 recommendations, the government revealed that the registered health and safety practitioner ─ who has decades of experience as a practising architect ─…

A 70-year-old builder has been given a suspended jail sentence after three workers were injured and a house was destroyed following the collapse of a building. Jack Savva had been working on a loft conversion at a house in Windsor on 6 August 2020 when he told workers to remove…

A £107m project to redevelop a derelict hospital in Wales is proving “challenging”, after asbestos and roosting bats were discovered in underground services. David Mathews, land and property manager at Ambition North Wales – a regional partnership that covers six local authority areas – told Denbighshire County Council’s partnerships scrutiny…

A Bath-based contractor has been fined after one of its workers was crushed to death by a collapsing wall.  Gary Anstey was working for H Mealing & Sons on a construction site at a school in the city when an incomplete and unsupported 1.8-metre retaining wall fell on him on…

A construction company and its director have been fined after a five-year-old child suffered a fractured skull after being hit by a falling cast iron pipe. Sage Homes Ltd and its director Jason Scorey were found guilty of safety breaches for failing to properly assess a foreseeable risk at Southampton…