Safety Smart Update: Autumn 2025
6th October 2025 Posted in Blogs
Welcome to Safety Smart’s Autumn Update! We’re already well into October, and on the 10th of this month, the focus is on World Mental Health Day, an important issue in the construction industry where there is still plenty to be done to remove the stigma around mental health. The Construction Leadership Council has launched a mental health in construction consultation so please do take a look and share with your networks and community too.
We’re also sharing calls for evidence to review lifting and pressure system regulations from the HSE, plus an IOSH report on Fixing Sick Britain.
And finally, we’ve got a focus on the weather – very British we know! As autumn comes with it’s own particular set of hazards we’re sharing information and resources on managing adverse weather and slips and trips with our latest Smart Resource.
Mental Health In Construction Consultation
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has launched a mental health in construction consultation.
CLC published this consultation after identifying mental health as a priority focus area at its Health Safety and Wellbeing Summit in July.
Call for Evidence to Review Lifting and Pressure Systems Regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today (1/10/25) announced the launch of a Call for Evidence (CfE) to review the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) and the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations (PSSR).
Fixing Sick Britain
Work-related illness affects 1.7 million UK workers and costs £150 billion each year.
A new IOSH brings together leading experts to set out a clear plan for tackling this crisis.
HSE launches workplace safety inspections for motor vehicle repair
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched 1,000 targeted inspections of motor vehicle repair businesses across Great Britain to tackle occupational asthma.
It’s time to get ready for adverse weather conditions
Winter is on the way and so are slips and trips, autumn leaves and snow and ice, so it’s better to deal with these things head of time with an adverse weather policy.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Worcester waste company fined after worker suffers life-changing crush injuries
A Worcester-based waste and recycling company has been fined £160,000 after a loading shovel bucket fell onto a maintenance worker.
Blackpole Recycling Limited was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its site on Blackpole Trading Estate West in Worcester.
Builder sentenced after house collapse injures three workers
A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed a home and injured three workers in Windsor.
Jack Savva, 70, was given a 13-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, following the incident on 6 August 2020.
Sign fitting company and director fined after fatal fall from scaffolding
A shop sign-making and fitting company and its director have been fined after an employee fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower and later died from his injuries.
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