Advice on the fire safety matters that should be considered by local planning authorities, applicants and other technical specialists involved in high rise residential and educational accommodation buildings at the planning stage, has been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Ron Alalouff reports. Planning Gateway One established the HSE as …
Dr Karen McDonnell, RoSPA’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser and Head of RoSPA Scotland, offers advice on how employers can tackle the vital issue of fatigue. Fatigue is a major but under-recognised hazard in the workplace, adversely affecting workers’ health, safety and wellbeing as well as overall organisational effectiveness. …
Time tracking software is not the most effective way to motivate remote workers, experts have said. Employee engagement company Weekly10 said employers need to motivate remote workers in other ways such as realistic goals, incentive programmes, transparent feedback and celebrating success. It comes after their research showed 16% of employees …
Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction project in Derbyshire that was building a concrete overflow weir structure on the site. The Midlands firm had brought in steel fixers and joiners to undertake the work. The company pleaded guilty to breaching reg 27(1) of the Construction …
HSE principal inspector Amy Kalay explains how a wall collapse at a metal recycling site in Birmingham left five workers dead and two company directors facing nine months in jail. On 7 July 2016, five agency workers were part of a team clearing swarf from a metal recycling bay at …
Two fifths of people in the construction industry believe an accident is “inevitable” on their sites, research has revealed. The study also showed almost half of respondents believed their boss could have done more to improve construction site safety and 41% said they have been made to work in unsafe …
The annual Mental Health Awareness Week this year has a focus on the theme of anxiety. The charity Mental Health Foundation is using the national week from May 15 to 21 to start conversations about anxiety. The organisation carried out research which showed a quarter of adults feel so anxious, …
A joinery firm in South East London has been fined £20,000 for failing to control its employees’ exposure to wood dust. F&E Joinery Limited, in Herne Hill, was inspected in May 2022 as part of a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign targeting woodworking businesses due to the significant health …
A Liverpool conveyor maintenance company has been fined after a mobile service engineer suffered serious injuries when his arm was dragged into a machine. Daniel Hartshorn, an employee of Joloda Conveyor Services Ltd, was pulled into the machine while carrying out repairs at one of the firm’s customers. He suffered …
Morrisons supermarket has been fined £3.5 million following prosecution by Tewkesbury Borough Council for failing to ensure the health and safety of an epileptic employee who died after falling from a shop stairway. Matthew Gunn, 27, was using the stairs in the supermarket’s Tewkesbury store when he is believed to …
