Singapore urged construction firms to take a two-week “safety time out” this month after a surge in workplace fatalities. Ten people died in construction accidents between July and October this…

As a ‘heat dome’ breaks calendar-day temperature records across the US Midwest and Northeast, Skanska tells GCR five ways it’s keeping workers safe onsite. 1. Pre-shift training We’re preparing for…

Arup has published a global guide on how to build fire-safe mass timber structures to encourage more use of the low-carbon alternative to concrete and steel. The consultancy said it…

American engineer Bechtel will donate $7m to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), to be spent on support for 500,000 construction workers over the next five years. The company…

As the call for inclusive PPE gains momentum globally, Nyaisha Sullivan delves into the lessons the UK can take from the United States on ensuring PPE inclusivity. Personal protective equipment…

Six people have been accused of running a construction safety training school in the US that issued certificates to some 20,000 students who did not undertake the 40 hours of…

Fourteen people were hospitalised at a construction project in New Haven, Connecticut, after potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide accumulated in a building undergoing renovation, AP reports.  The cause of…

In a bid to improve Mumbai’s dust-choked air, its city council has passed legislation requiring contractors to install 35ft-high metal enclosures around any site larger than an acre, and to…

The latest episode of the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) new podcast, 21CC, launches today with an investigation into what futurologists of the 1970s got right about the built environment…

A report from New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has found that across the state, the construction fatality rate increased from 10.2% to 11.1% per 100,000 workers…

Ferrovial says it has successfully tested proximity sensors in vests and helmets to alert workers when machinery gets too close. The system triggers a triple alert — physical, visual, and…

Belt Construction Inc, a contractor based in Arkansas, has been fined $287,150 after two employees asphyxiated while working in a confined space. One lost consciousness in a sewer 20ft below…

Once-in-a-generation reforms to the construction industry in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) will mean that students in the sector in 2030 will look back on buildings built in 2016-17 and ask themselves “did we really stoop to that level”?

A 50-year old man has died in Chennai, southern India, having been found electrocuted after visiting an unfinished apartment he had bought. The man, named as Paalpandi by The Hindu…

The team building the 340m-high Dubai Uptown Tower this week logged 20 million person-hours without a lost-time injury since work started in January 2019. Besix Middle East is responsible for…

Araujo Construction, a roofing contractor based in Calumet City, Illinois, has been fined $277,000 for repeatedly failing to protect employees from hazards while working on residential projects. According to the…

An exoskeleton devised by a Canadian subsidiary of French contractor Vinci and Montreal-based Biolift has been honoured by Quebec’s Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association. Eurovia Quebec and Biolift won…

Three workers died and six were injured on Wednesday in Hong Kong when a tower crane collapsed at a construction site on Anderson Road, Sau Mau Ping.