A scaffolding company must pay more than £50,000 after a workman sustained life-changing crush injuries when the forklift truck he was operating overturned, trapping him. The Whiterose Scaffolding employee’s internal injuries were so severe that he now lives with chronic pain and has significant mobility problems. The Leeds-based company, which …
Cunningham Safety Consultants win Worlebury Golf Club sponsors day tournament 2018
Cunningham Safety Consultants participate in the Weston Christmas Cracker 10k Beach Run this morning in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness
A London Zoo safety breach saw a keeper, who was cleaning out a hawk aviary, fall off a faulty step ladder that was wrongly retrieved from a skip. Angelina Lawson suffered neck injuries in the accident while removing droppings from a shelf under the birds’ perches. According to reports, the step ladder …
The sales director of a West Midlands roofing firm tried to disclaim his managerial status to stop the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) charging him with neglect after an untrained apprentice sustained severe head, facial and back injuries when he fell more than 6 m through a fragile skylight on …
The GMB has highlighted recent Amazon safety incidents and accused the company of treating its UK warehouse workers like ‘robots’ after it published a series of figures relating to health and safety. The trade union said figures show more than 440 serious incidents have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive since 2015. …
Today, 19 October, we wore pink, raised money and are helping to make life-saving research happen.
Regulator inspections will check ‘Health’ taken as seriously as ‘Safety’ HSE has announced on Twitter and Facebook (20/09/18) that inspectors are visiting construction sites to “see if health is being taken as seriously as safety”. Inspectors will be focusing on “builders’ lungs” and the regulator is therefore advising all to …
UK tradespeople the most safety conscious in Europe, according to new survey. Over 56% of UK tradespeople say they stop work regularly to meet health and safety requirements. According to the findings of a recent health and safety survey, conducted for Bosch, UK tradespeople are the most safety conscious in …
via MailOnline for iPhone & iPad Husband and wife Jane and Chris Bainbridge were camping in Watermillock, Cumbria, a picturesque area of the Lake District, in 2012 when they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. Read full article
