The construction industry's health and safety performance is under constant scrutiny. 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.

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HSE trials construction text alerts

Director jailed for skylight death

New MEWP guidance online

Scaffold collapse seriously injured three workers

Manager fined for RIDDOR failure

Carillion JM fined £70,000 for fatal 17m fall

Liverpool crane collapse: HSE issues report

Wembley fatality witness loses claim

Wates fined for carbon monoxide risk

Overturned crane costs hire firm £16,000

Worker suffers shock from underground cable

Unions angered by "complacent" Government response

Better health under construction

Employee used saw horse as work platform

RoSPA 2008: from board room to portakabin

2012: the road to the games

£30,000 penalty for unsafe excavation

Surveyor failed to carry out asbestos checks

Trant scoops top award

Building firm must pay £5000 to injured employee

Fall left worker needing 24-hour care

Secret flat conversion in factory breached fire regs

Live cable was left for 5 months before explosion

HSE: 10% fall in site deaths last year

Pupil burned by tar dripping through roof