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A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site.  Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of 26 July 2015 and was found the next morning by workers at the construction site at Bank End Road, Worsborough, in South Yorkshire.

A roofing boss has received a custodial sentence after one of his workers fell through a farm outbuilding roof. IOSH Magazine spoke to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Michael Griffiths about what happened.   On 7 July 2022, Redditch Magistrates Court sentenced Geoff Whitehouse, trading as Midland Roofing, to four months in prison after pleading guilty to breaches under section 1(1) of the Employers Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 and regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 (as amended). The case came about after a labourer working for Mr Whitehouse fell through a farm outbuilding roof onto a concrete floor, sustaining life-changing injuries. 

Technology firm Dyson has been fined £1.2m after an employee sustained head and chest injuries when he was struck by a 1.5 tonne milling machine.   The worker at Dyson’s Wiltshire factory was hit while moving the machine, which fell on top of him.  He only escaped being crushed under the weight of the machine because it landed on two toolboxes and the handle of another machine. The incident happened on August 27, 2019.  

A mining company has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents.  The owners of Boulby Mine in Saltburn-by-the-Sea were fined £3.6 million  and ordered to pay costs of £185,000 after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A building owner has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after an employee was left paralysed when a hoist platform he was working from plummeted from the third floor to ground level.  An employee of Mr Nicholas Devine was working at a premise on School Lane, Seaforth, Liverpool where a floor of the commercial building was being fitted out as a recording studio on 9 January 2017. This required repairing the timber frame around the lift shaft and rehanging the doors. When standing on the platform of the goods lift, it fell to the ground floor without any warning, causing serious spinal and head injuries to a worker that resulted in paralysis of the lower half of the body.

UK national standards body, the BSI, has published three new standards setting out competence requirements for building safety management.  The requirements cover the roles of principal designer and principal contractor. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is sponsoring the new standards. Separate steering groups have overseen the development of all three standards, with the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) sitting on each one.

The UK government has rejected the Work and Pensions Committee’s key recommendation that policy makers should commit to removing all asbestos from public buildings within 40 years.   In April this year, the select committee published its Health and Safety Executive’s approach to asbestos management report calling on the government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to develop and publish a strategic plan to remove asbestos from non-domestic buildings by 2062.

An electrician was set on fire during an explosion while using a metal spanner to repair an electrical fault at discount retailer B&M's warehouse in Liverpool.  On 22 September 2018, a workman was repairing an electrical fault when the tool he was using came into contact with a live busbar (metallic strip) linked to the power distribution and caused an electrical explosion.

A retail company and an electrical contracting company have been fined after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15 per cent of his body when he was caught in an explosion at a warehouse in Liverpool.