Health and Safety

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has ordered Morgan Sindall to improve its health and safety practices after a crane accident at a nuclear site. On 21 August, a crane rail was dropped from a crane controlled by Morgan Sindall at the Devonshire Dock complex at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The shipyard,…

A roofing company has been fined a total of £881,000 over two separate incidents where workers were seriously injured in falls. Mitie Tilley Roofing Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for incidents that took place in 2019 in Newcastle and Swansea . Billy Hewitt, 60, fell…

More than 100 schools are set to be completely rebuilt due to the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) crisis, the education secretary has said. On Wednesday (6 December) the government updated its list of schools and colleges in England that it has identified contain RAAC. The number now stands at…

A man in his 40s has died from his injuries after falling from height while working at Laing O’Rourke’s Oxford North innovation district. Police and ambulance services were called to the site yesterday (4 December) at 10.15am, but the man died at the scene. Work on the site has stopped…

A construction worker has been taken to hospital following an incident on a huge project to build a factory for making windfarm foundations in the North East. K2 Construction Management said a full investigation would take place into the episode at the £450m Teesside scheme. The firm is acting as…

A contractor has been fined £600,000 following a fatal fall on a building site in the North West. Dennis Vincent, 36, died after plummeting to the ground while lowering access equipment from the roof of an office block in Warrington in February 2021. His employer, Wakefield-based PTSG Electrical Services, was…

Former government construction adviser Paul Morrell has hit out at ministers' muted response to a building-safety report published in April. Testing for a Safer Future, written by Morrell and legal expert Anneliese Day, questioned whether regulators would be able to enforce higher standards and said certification bodies had failed to…

A heroic crane operator who lifted a colleague to safety from a tower blaze in Reading said his “adrenaline was gone out the roof” during the rescue. Glen Edwards was lauded after saving the man’s life when a fire broke out last week at an 18-storey office tower being built…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has appointed Philip White to lead the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) on a permanent basis. White, the HSE’s director of building safety, took over as interim chief of the BSR when former head Peter Baker retired in April this year. Baker had led the…

The Building Safety Regulator has vowed to inspect all buildings with unsafe cladding in its first year of assessments. In its first strategic plan the regulator has said that by the end of its second year of operation, ending April 2025, it ought to have assessed about a fifth of…