Health and Safety

A roofing firm has been fined after an employee fell through a skylight. Northampton-based Kingsley Roofing Contractors pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws following the incident involving 31-year-old Ryan Robinson, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said. The company was fined £16,650 at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on 20…

There were 50,000 non-fatal workplace injuries in construction in the three years to March 2025 – equivalent to one in 40 workers – according to new figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE data, compiled from the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, showed construction had…

A Staffordshire-based firm has been fined £16,500 after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell from height while replacing gutters, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said. The incident happened when the man was carrying out work for Goliath Home World Ltd on a garage in Hednesford on…

Farnborough-based Skyladder Construction Ltd has been fined £33,500 after a man died when he fell through a skylight opening at a property. The company was constructing a single-storey extension with a flat roof at a property in Farnborough when the incident happened on 20 July 2022. The Health and Safety…

A client has received a suspended prison sentence after inspectors found “multiple life-threatening safety failures” at a building site in London. Moses Meisels, who was overseeing structural work to enlarge a synagogue in Hackney, “repeatedly ignored warnings” about dangerous practices at his site, according to the Health and Safety Executive…

Nearly half of construction workers admitted taking safety shortcuts while working at height to ensure they got a job done on time, according to a new survey. Around a fifth said they had not received any training on how to work at height safely, while one in seven believed their…

A firm has been fined £32,000 after multiple workers were diagnosed with vibration-related health conditions. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation after it received more than 10 reports from bricklayers, joiners, electricians and plasterers over a short period of time who had been diagnosed with conditions such…

A construction firm has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a partially constructed barn in Shropshire. The man had been appointed by Dewi Williams Limited to complete the installation of roof sheets onto a barn that was under construction at a site in Oswestry, the Health…

The risks of modern slavery in the housebuilding sector are “poorly understood” despite its size and political importance, a new report says. Residential accounts for around 40 per cent of UK construction output, but academics from King’s Business School found that the housebuilding sector is is often excluded from research…

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) will prosecute Balfour Beatty following the death of a worker at AWE plc’s Aldermaston site in West Berkshire, it has announced. The incident occurred on 6 July 2023 and involved a 58-year-old construction worker from East London, who sustained fatal injuries. ONR's prosecution relates…