A man is fighting for his life in hospital following a major incident at a demolition site in Paisley. Emergency services were alerted to reports of an injured man on Waverley Road in the Foxbar area of the town on Friday morning.  Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service, and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sped to the scene shortly after 9am. A trauma team including three ambulances, three fire engines and dozens of police officers were dispatched.

The government has launched its first road safety strategy in more than a decade last week with the overarching aim of reducing deaths and serious injuries on Great Britain’s roads by 65% by 2035, using a 2022-2024 baseline.   The plan also contains an even more ambitious target of 70% for children under 16 by the same deadline, with the same baseline.

A construction company based in the Northwest of England, has been fined £60,000 after a wall collapsed, knocking an employee through an open stairwell onto a concrete floor below.  Ace Infra Ltd pleaded guilty after an incident led to employee, Mark Jones, to spend a month in hospital recovering from his injuries.

An unregistered gas fitter has been sentenced after carrying out illegal gas work at a house in Torquay that left the property in an immediately dangerous condition.  Benjamin Owen, known as Ben, trading as BPS and ‘Ben the Plumber’, attended a property on Barton Hill, Torquay in February 2023 where he removed an old boiler and installed a new one.

An engineering firm in Bedfordshire has been fined £27,200 after poor management of safety put employees at risk of ill-health including dermatitis, asthma and other respiratory conditions.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution was the result of a routine inspection in July 2022. HSE inspectors. identified a number of concerns which were brought to the company’s attention, specifically on the use of metalworking fluids in CNC machines.

A 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.  Vasilis Paraskeva and his London-based company, VNP Constructions Limited, were the appointed contractor for the conversion of a former public house and adjoining building into residential flats on White Lion Street, London.

The UK's new Employment Rights Act bans exploitative zero-hour contracts, strengthens protections for pregnant workers, whistleblowers and seafarers – and gives OSH professionals a pivotal role in shaping its implementation and enforcement, says Richard Jones CFIOSH.

UK’s Top 10 most dangerous jobs revealed.  The latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and industry analyses make it starkly clear that not all jobs carry the same risk of serious injury or fatality in the United Kingdom. With 124 work-related fatal injuries reported in the latest HSE statistics year, the differences in danger across sectors reflect both the nature of the work and the environments in which UK workers operate.

In December 2018, the Metropolitan Police discovered a man’s body at the site of a synagogue development in Hackney, London. Although the worker had died as a result of natural causes, subsequent inspections revealed multiple, life-threatening safety failures at the site.

Work-related stress, anxiety and depression have become the leading causes of workplace absence in the UK, with nearly a million employees affected in the past year, according to figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  Its data foiund that 22.1 million working days were lost in 2024/25 due to mental ill health, a steep rise compared with the previous year.