newsMultiple safety failings on house build site
AN IRVINE-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after multiple health and safety failings, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a house build site in Irvine.
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newsNursery fined £800k after baby chokes to death
AN EDINBURGH nursery has been fined £800,000 after an eleven-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food.
newsResearch highlights fire safety inadequacies
WITH EMPLOYEES and customers returning to workplaces and stores following the pandemic, new research by JLA has revealed that many companies are ill-equipped to deal with the growing risk of fires at their sites – posing huge risk to employee and customer safety.
newsFine after care home resident chokes and dies
A CARE home company has been fined £640,000 after one of their residents choked on a piece of doughnut and died.
newsWorker injured during excavation work
A CONSTRUCTION company and its groundworks contractor have been fined after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm.
newsBSC responds to cladding announcement
MICHAEL GOVE, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing, has set out plans to raise £4bn to replace combustible cladding on buildings of heights between 11m and 18m.
newsGovernment forces developers to fix cladding crisis
MICHAEL GOVE, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, has warned developers that they must pay to fix the cladding crisis they caused as he continues to overhaul the government’s approach to building safety.
newsPlan demolition properly, urges HSE
GREAT BRITAIN’S workplace regulator is asking demolition and construction firms to double-down on thorough planning, management and control of demolition and refurbishment work.
newsContractor prosecuted due to partial building collapse
A BUILDING contractor was prosecuted after carrying out unsafe excavation works, which resulted in the partial collapse of a residential building.
newsFoundry fined £133k after worker suffers burns
A FOUNDRY has been sentenced for safety breaches after an employee suffered life-changing burns following an eruption of molten slag during a slag tipping procedure.
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