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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its guidance on registered building inspectors to include details about what constitutes a conflict of interest.

Workplaces, schools and hospitals are the focus of a new campaign to keep people safe from asbestos.

New e-learning health & safety certification course was launched by the CIC last year.

Following a review of the recognition of Professional Bodies for the issue of the Professionally Qualified Person (PQP) card, CSCS will only recognise professionally qualified members of such bodies for the issue of the PQP card from 30 June.

The UK's built environment is in danger of becoming less safe because the industry is failing to attract new design risk professionals, warns the Association for Project Safety (APS).

The Chief Inspector of Buildings at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Peter Baker, has announced his retirement weeks after the new building safety regime began.

The Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC) has launched a brand new website which aims to share free regularly updated, expert support, tools and guidance for the construction industry.

The CIC has elected a new Chair and Deputy Chair of the CIC Health & Safety Committee, as Gary Mees PPCIAT MCIAT steps down.

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.

HSE has launched a new campaign, 'Working Minds', to encourage employers to promote good mental health in work.

Peter Baker, the recently installed chief inspector of buildings at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), has welcomed the new planning requirements on fire safety, which came into effect on 1 August.

Does the construction industry understand the CDM Regulations in their entirety? This is a new report providing much needed clarity on the management arrangements for all projects.

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has urged the construction industry to get involved in new research to help develop a picture of the benefits and challenges of the principal designer (PD) role under Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM).

A recycling business has devised a process for converting asbestos into a new material that can be used safely as a construction product.

The number of enforcement and prohibition notices issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in construction in 2019/20 fell by 32%, while the average value of fines per conviction halved, new figures have revealed.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning to industries, including construction, that a "substantial" number of face masks claiming to meet KN95 standards aren't of good enough quality to be used safely.

A group of MPs is pressuring the government to halve the amount of silica dust to which workers are allowed to be exposed.

The Institute for Employment Studies is seeking assistance from a construction SME.

With indoor air pollution continuing to impact the health and wellbeing of UK workers, employers are taking greater responsibility for the workplace environment in a bid to limit the effects of sick building syndrome – situations where employees or other building occupants experience acute health and discomfort levels that appear to be linked to time spent in a building.