The Building Safety Regulator will be transferred out of the Health and Safety Executive in January, the building safety minister has confirmed.  The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) announced over the summer the regulator would have its functions moved away from the body and into a new executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the department.

On 10 December 2022, 51-year-old Miguel Galvao was working as a drainage engineer for utility and infrastructure company Lanes Group, water jetting sewer lines in Southall, London. As Mr Galvao was priming the jetting hose for the first job of the day, the end of the hose whipped up at high speed, striking him in the chin and face. Mr Galvao was rushed to hospital and placed in an induced coma. With doctors unable to do anything to help him, Mr Galvao’s family took the decision to switch off his life support on 27 December 2022. He died later that day. Lanes Group was subsequently fined £800,000.

A construction company has been fined after a worker fell from the roof of a barn under construction in Oswestry, suffering serious injuries, including fractured ribs and a fractured skull.  The man had been installing roof sheets for Dewi Williams when he stepped onto a recently fitted sheet and fell to the ground on 2 September 2023.

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation after it received more than 10 reports of vibration related ill-health in a short period of time. The workers affected had until recently been employed by Nottingham City Homes Limited, an arms-length management organisation that managed social housing on behalf of Nottingham City Council between 2005 and 2023.

A 17th Century hotel has been fined £75,000 for not fixing a faulty fire alarm system within four months. The Hind Hotel was a resting point for Oliver Cromwell's army before the Battle of Naseby in 1645.  Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service said it took action after the Hind Hotel on Sheep Street, Wellingborough, had not completed requests made in an enforcement notice.

AT Lee Properties Limited and LJH Property Limited have been fined a combined total of more than £95,000 following a prosecution by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE). Directors for each firm were also given conditional discharges and ordered to pay prosecution costs.

A team of safety inspectors will carry-out a series of random raids on sites in Manchester this week.  The 12-strong HSE squad will target construction jobs in the city on Tuesday to look at their management of health and safety risks.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has fined a manufacturing company £240,000 after a worker was killed by a reversing HGV in Birmingham.   David Saint was working as an engineering manager at Northwood Consumer's site in Birmingham when he was struck by an HGV while walking across a service road on an industrial estate on 19 October 2023, the HSE reported.

Autostructures UK, formerly GKN Autostructures, admitted a charge of failing to discharge the employer's general duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.  An employee who was struck in the head by a piece of machinery died four days later, a court heard.

A London contractor has been given a suspended prison sentenced after risking the lives of workers and ignoring action taken by Britain’s workplace regulator.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ordered Mohammed Mehdi Ali to stop working at a construction site in Willesden on 7 September 2018. Inspectors visited the Willesden Lane site and found unplanned, unsupervised and unsafe work was putting people at serious risk of injury.