Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors are to launch an intensive inspection initiative aimed at stopping dangerous practices on building sites across Great Britain.
Carillion subsidiary Carillion JM Ltd has been fined £185,000 following an accident at the Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale in 2008 when a Ford Transit truck hit construction worker Michael Gresty.
A breakdown of construction deaths for 2008/9 has revealed that the number of self-employed construction workers killed at work actually increased despite the overall number of deaths having significantly declined.
Laing O'Rourke and SGB have been fined a total of £105,000 after one man died and another was injured when a concrete slab collapsed at Heathrow Airport's T5 in 2005.
