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Better health under construction

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008

Lucie Ponting reports on the latest developments in the project to promote health standards and monitoring throughout the construction industry.

Employee used saw horse as work platform

Prosecutions and Claims | 20.06.2008

RoSPA 2008: from board room to portakabin

Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008

Ever wondered what's the fastest way to irritate an HSE inspector visiting your site? Jocelyn Dorrell and Louis Wustemann report back from RoSPA's three days of seminars on directors' duties, workplace transport and construction in Birmingham last month.

2012: the road to the games

Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.06.2008

It's been described as the equivalent of building two Terminal 5s in half the time. The transformation from scratch in six years of 2.5 square kilometres of industrial land in east London into performance space for the world's greatest athlete is a huge challenge. We begin a five-year chronicle of the steps to safeguard workers on the UK's biggest construction project.

£30,000 penalty for unsafe excavation

Prosecutions and Claims | 28.05.2008

Surveyor failed to carry out asbestos checks

Prosecutions and Claims | 16.05.2008

Trant scoops top award

News | HSP | 16.05.2008

Building firm must pay £5000 to injured employee

Prosecutions and Claims | 12.05.2008

Fall left worker needing 24-hour care

Prosecutions and Claims | 12.05.2008

Secret flat conversion in factory breached fire regs

Prosecutions and Claims | 17.04.2008

Live cable was left for 5 months before explosion

Prosecutions and Claims | 14.04.2008

HSE: 10% fall in site deaths last year

News | HSP | 11.04.2008

Pupil burned by tar dripping through roof

Prosecutions and Claims | 07.04.2008

5m safe working hours for St George

News | HSP | 19.03.2008

JCB Group firms fined £466,000 after two deaths

Prosecutions and Claims | 17.03.2008

Alfred McAlpine pays £255,000 after motorcyclist killed

Prosecutions and Claims | 14.03.2008

Taylor Wimpey fined following death of apprentice

Prosecutions and Claims | 14.03.2008

Updated: Laing O'Rourke pays £101,000 for shop collapse

Prosecutions and Claims | 13.03.2008

Staying in one piece: slips, trips and falls

Eddie Bailey | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008

Slips, trips and falls currently account for one fatality a week and 38% of all major workplace injuries. Last month the HSE launched a campaign, Shattered Lives, which is aimed at creating a step-change in the attitudes of both businesses and their workers in several sectors. The HSE's Eddie Bailey explains how it will help practitioners win hearts and minds.

HSE papers sites with notices in nationwide refurbishment blitz

News | HSW | 05.03.2008

Updated: Fine for falling debris

Prosecutions and Claims | 29.02.2008

When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing

Howard Fidderman | Features | HSB | 27.02.2008

Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, how have the courts been sentencing employers convicted of health and safety crimes? And what will be the impact of the new sentencing guidelines for manslaughter when they come into force later this year? Howard Fidderman believes that sentencing should not be left to the courts.

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