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A builder who threatened inspectors from Britain’s workplace regulator and told them his name was James Bond has been fined.

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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

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A Cornish roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from an inspector for Britain’s workplace regulator. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received a concern after workers had been observed carrying out roof replacement work without any scaffolding bei

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on proposals to improve the application of the Control of Asbestos Regulations and guidance around asbestos management to help protect workers and building users. The proposals aim to enhance protections in areas where asbestos remain

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A self-employed builder from Reading has been given a suspended prison sentence after a man fell to his death while assisting with roof work. Raffaele Vigliotti, 68, who was trading as Absolute Building Solutions, was also ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work, after the death of Andrew Layle

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A construction company that specialises in road resurfacing in London has been fined £1 million after one of its employees was killed by a reversing road-sweeper. Robert Morris, 48, was working on the resurfacing of Pemberton Road in Haringey for Marlborough Highways Limited on 30 May 2022. A

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There were five reasonable precautions a contractor could have taken to prevent the death of a child who fell down an open manhole in an incident in 2020, a sheriff has found. Sheriff Stuart Reid has published his determination in the fatal accident inquiry into the death of Shéa Ryan.

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A London construction company has been fined £50,000 after four men were injured – two seriously - when the first floor of a house collapsed during building works. Aryn Stones Ltd had been contracted to build a new domestic property in Hampstead. On 31 May 2022, remedial works were being

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