near miss reportingNear miss reporting is where construction safety data goes to die. A scaffold board drops and misses a groundworker by a metre; everyone swears, everyone carries on, nothing is written down. HSE estimates that even reportable non-fatal injuries are only reported by employers around half the time — and near misses, which mostly […]
An HSE construction inspection usually starts with no warning at all — inspectors arrive unannounced and expect to see evidence on the spot. The Health and Safety Executive carried out more than 13,200 workplace inspections in 2024/25 and issued over 4,400 enforcement notices. And if an inspector finds a material breach, you pay for their […]
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 — known as CDM Regulations 2015 — are the backbone of UK construction safety law. Yet HSE inspectors still cite poor planning and weak compliance documentation as leading causes of enforcement action across British sites every year. If you’re a client, principal designer, principal contractor or site manager, […]
