A company that produces stone products and its director have been fined a total of just under £20,000 after repeatedly failing to protect workers from exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS). The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carried out several inspections on Warmsworth Stone Limited, which produces carved stone masonry …
A roofing firm has been fined while its director has been handed a suspended prison sentence after putting the lives of workers at risk during a roof renovation in Surrey. Weather Master Roofing Limited and company director Jack Avanzo, also known as Jack Avenzo, were sentenced at Brighton Magistrates’ Court …
The HSE has published statistics that cover work-related ill health, non-fatal workplace injuries and enforcement action taken by HSE, in the 2023/24 period. 7 million workers suffering from a work-related illness, around half of which were stress, depression or anxiety (2022/2023 was 1.8 million). Musculoskeletal disorders made up 32% of …
The conviction of a construction firm has emphasised the critical need for thorough planning and safety precautions when working at height after a worker was paralysed from the waist down after falling from the first floor of a building. THE INCIDENT Andrew Clifford was installing first-floor joists alone during the …
Cheshire East Council has been fined £500,000 after a man was killed by a falling tree. Christopher Hall, 48, from Wilmslow, was walking his dog in The Carrs – one of the town’s parks – on 28 August 2020, when the large limb of a tree fell and struck him. …
The death of a worker who became trapped when an excavation wall collapsed on him on a new-homes building site has led to Argyll-based building company Carrig Construction being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and fined £75,000. We examine the incident and see how IOSH members can …
A human resources director with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has won her discrimination claim against the Royal Mint after an employment tribunal agreed there was a link between her disability and resignation. The Cardiff tribunal concluded she was then prevented from rescinding her resignation from the Royal Mint even …
Some 43% of officer workers think that cracked glass in a fire door is acceptable, while 57% said a hole where a lock had been removed would not affect a fire door’s performance, according to a new survey of office workers’ attitudes to fire doors. The research – commissioned by …
A company has been sentenced after a 62-year-old worker fell 10 metres to the ground and died during the construction of a new university facility. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the fall and subsequently prosecuted Balfour Beatty, with the firm fined £285,000 on Monday 16 September. Igor Malka …
An investigation into a small family-owned Scottish fishing firm has found that dozens of its workers may have been trafficked to the UK and been ‘treated like slaves’. TN Trawlers and its sister companies, owned by the Nicholson family based in the small town of Annan on the southern coast …
