articleFALLS FROM height remain the UK’s leading cause of workplace fatalities, with the latest figures highlighting ongoing risks — particularly for the self-employed. Jamie Appleton explores how improved safety awareness, robust risk management, and the correct selection of PPE can help prevent needless deaths.
newsNO FALLS Week, organised by the No Falls Foundation, has seen a surge in new sign-ups, bringing the total number of registered participants to over 5,000. The event takes place from 18–22 May 2026 and promotes safe working at height.
newsA NOTTINGHAMSHIRE district council has been fined £50,000 following a serious incident in which a ride-on mower overturned at a churchyard, causing an male employee to fall more than two metres onto a public road and footpath below.
newsA BOLTON bakery company has been fined £16,667 after an employee fractured their hip falling from a large plastic pallet box while working at height.
newsA CONSTRUCTION company director and his firm have been fined after failing to comply with multiple enforcement notices and for failing to suitably plan, manage and monitor construction work.
newsA CONSTRUCTION company based in the Northwest of England, has been fined £60k after a wall collapsed, knocking an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.
articleSLIPS, TRIPS and falls are the most common workplace hazard, but there are steps we can take to help prevent them, says Caitlin McCloy.
newsAN ARBORICULTURE company based in Derby has been fined £20k after an employee suffered life-altering back injuries when he fell over 30 feet from a MEWP basket.
newsA CORNISH roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from an inspector for Britain’s workplace regulator.
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