The new Building Safety Regulator held its first conference in Westminster Over 900 practitioners attended the event to prepare for the new building safety regime Minister for Building Safety, Lee Rowley said: “We need to ensure that those working in the building industry have the knowledge and confidence to properly engage with this new regime … read more
A major pipeline transportation company has been fined £2.3million for safety breaches after its employees were exposed to risk of serious injury and even death while working on a leaking pipeline containing petrol under pressure. Workers at Exolum Pipeline System Ltd, formerly known as CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS) Ltd, were excavating a suspected pipeline leak … read more
A Kent waste company has been fined £150,000 for several health and safety breaches. City of London Magistrates’ Court heard that a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection in August 2020 found that employees of BSP (Knockholt) Limited manually sorting through waste in its yard near Orpington were at risk of being struck by heavy … read more
A Derbyshire property owner has been given a community order after a father-of-two sustained life changing injuries when a wall collapsed on top of him during a barn conversion. Nigel Edwards failed to have a structural assessment of the outbuildings carried out as part of his planning for the project at his home in Woodhouses. … read more
The first Building Safety Conference, hosted by HSE’s Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is taking place today, Wednesday 22 March 2023, at Central Hall, Westminster BSR was created following Dame Judith Hackett’s review and part of the building safety reforms since the Grenfell tragedy. The event will see nearly 1,000 practitioners gather together to … read more