A Cheshire building contractor, Phillip Affleck, has been fined for serious health breaches and lack of welfare facilities on a Culcheth building site. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) received a complaint from a member of the public in May 2014 about the …
HSE is undertaking its annual refurbishment initiative between 14 September and 9 October 2015. During this period, inspectors will be targeting visits to sites where refurbishment work is being carried out, focussing on the main causes of accidents and ill-health in this high risk sector. These include work at height …
Mary Clarke, CEO, Cognisco, explains how the tick-box approach to managing health and safety at work can be costly for businesses in financial terms as well as reputational damage. The latest (provisional) statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that 142 workers were killed at work in …
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) latest fatality statistics show incidents involving moving vehicles and cattle are the biggest causes of death on Britain’s farms. Thirty three workers and four members of the public were killed on Britain’s farms during 2014/15* with around half (16) being struck or run over …
Capital Safety, designer and manufacturer of height safety and fall protection equipment, has launched a new range of its Delta™ Comfort harnesses. The company say that this latest design incorporates many of the features of the original range as well as shoulder, back and leg padding and vent windows …
Over the next 12 months HSE is focusing heavily on health in the food industry, specifically with regard to musculoskeletal issues. David Shorrock examines current regulations and tools employers can utilise to assess the risks to their workforce and avoid heavy fines. An astonishing 8.3 million working days were …
A farm company was sentenced today after admitting safety failures relating to a worker falling five and a half meters through an abattoir skylight. In June 2014, Mr Attila Bus was asked by his supervisor to clean the gutter on the abattoir owned by Tottingworth Farms Ltd. Eastbourne magistrates heard …
A construction firm has been sentenced for safety failings after four workers were injured, one of them seriously, when a roof truss in a new extension collapsed during construction causing several others to fall. Four men working on the extension were caught in the collapse at premises in Brandon …
A kitchen fitter left a gas pipe in a dangerous state in a customer’s home, while falsely claiming to be a registered gas engineer. Matthew Heath removed the kitchen hob in September 2014 but failed to cap the remaining gas pipe, meaning potentially lethal gas could fill the home in …
Landlords will be required by law to install working smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in their properties, under measures announced by Housing Minister Brandon Lewis. The move will help prevent up to 26 deaths and 670 injuries a year. The measure is expected to take effect from October 2015, and …
