Builders’ merchant Jewson has been fined £400,000 by Folkestone Magistrates’ Court following an incident in which a tonne of iron mesh sheets fell onto two of its workers, leaving one with life-changing injuries. IOSH magazine spoke to Thanet District Council’s public protection officer Simon Hogben about what happened. Image courtesy of Thanet …
Rules for every type of road user will be updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking, cycling and riding horses. The changes follow a public consultation on a review of the Highway Code to improve road safety for people walking, cycling and riding horses …
Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee ‘in an incident waiting to happen’. Three company directors have also been fined after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. As part of a three-year …
Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee ‘in an incident waiting to happen’. Three company directors have also been fined after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. As part of a three-year …
The mother of a four-year-old boy who fell from a farm vehicle and was run over sustaining fatal injuries has called for a change in attitude in agriculture. Farmer Brian Nutter was given a suspended prison sentence following the death of his nephew Harry Lee. Wigan Magistrates’ Court heard that …
Different workplace environments all have one thing in common, stress. Which is why it is easy to mindlessly eat at work, without paying attention to what is being consumed. Catherine Attfield, Head of Nutrition and Wellbeing at Artizian and Co-Founder of Nutrition Bites, explains how a nutritional diet can increase …
On 15 January 2022 at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court, Peter Saunders Builders Ltd was fined £16,000 after pleading guilty to breaching regulation 8 (a) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, following an incident that saw one of its workers, Sean Harding, fall from height and subsequently die. The fine was …
A roofing company owner has been given a suspended sentence after a member of the public reported a concern regarding unsafe work at height. Company owner Phillip McGinn and two workers were replacing roof tiles on a detached dormer bungalow, in Lydiate on Merseyside on 5 March 2021, without any …
Employers in Great Britain need to ensure they are ready to provide the same level of protection to workers who carry out casual work as employees who have a contract of employment when amended personal protective equipment (PPE) regulations come into force on 6 April. The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) …
Great Britain’s workplace regulator is asking demolition and construction firms to double-down on thorough planning, management and control of demolition and refurbishment work. The HSE is asking that businesses properly plan, organise, manage, and monitor their work and use competent people to avoid incidents and ill health amongst their workers and the …
