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 …
Organisations call for a focus on keeping staff safe as UK riots raise personal safety concerns. The British Retail Consortium has expressed concern for its members following recent rioting across the UK. Much of the disorder took place within high streets with shops being targeted for looting. The disorder began …
Two companies have been fined after a father-of-three was crushed to death by a machine. Mr Hartley, was a self-employed engineer from Sheffield who had been hired by Premier Engineering Projects Ltd to replace machinery at a materials recycling facility on Twelvetrees Crescent, Bow, London. The 48-year-old led a group …
An industrial door firm has been fined £165,000 after it admitted safety failings that led to the death of an employee. Thirty-three-year-old Mark Mathers was strangled by his own hoodie when it became trapped in the mechanics of a roller door at Specialist Cars Volkswagen in Aberdeen. He died three …
Tata Chemicals Europe Limited has been fined after a man died following an incident while erecting a scaffold tower in a chemical plant in Northwich. Michael Densmore, from Halewood in Merseyside, died following complications to the wound he sustained after his right foot slipped into a trough containing a liquid …
