Health & Safety

Daniel Watton was given a suspended sentence after his stepson Connor Lambert was electrocuted moving a ladder near an overhead power line. HSE found the access plans unsafe.

SAA supports education following any changes to Queensland’s scaffolding code and calls for stability assessments to account for wind exposure and public safety.

WorkSafe New Zealand is inspecting residential sites from October to December, with falls from height accounting for 70% of construction prohibition notices.

W G Carter has been fined £120,000 after carpenter Richard “Felix” Roper suffered fatal injuries in a fall during building work, with HSE pointing to safer access and work sequencing.

A Queensland coroner has called for mandatory additional controls on freestanding tower scaffolds in public places after finding that the industry’s accepted height-to-base rule of thumb was not enough to protect against strong winds.

The scaffold came down at a development on Wattle Street in Ultimo, inner Sydney, shortly before 6:45pm on Saturday, damaging parked vehicles and narrowly...

Singapore will require scaffold netting used outside buildings to meet fire-retardant specifications on projects awarded from 1 March 2027.

A 22-year-old specialist rope-access technician has died after falling while working on a new lighting system inside Rome's Colosseum.

A West Yorkshire housebuilder has been fined £300,000 after a scaffolding labourer suffered serious spinal injuries in a fall through an unprotected stairwell opening.

Scaffolding has moved from sixth to fourth in OSHA’s latest ranking of the most commonly cited workplace safety standards in the US, with 1,725 violations recorded in preliminary FY2026 figures.