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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 …
A lift maintenance company has been fined £14,400 and ordered to pay £45,000 costs following an accident where a care home resident fell down a lift shaft. However, the care home itself, which was also responsible for the safe operation of the lift, went into liquidation shortly after criminal proceedings …
The boss of a car salvage yard has been jailed for a year after ignoring 15 safety notices. A report from a forklift examiner in November 2018, which unearthed a Category A defect on a forklift, prompted a visit from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and resulted in Tahir …
Boris Johnson has announced that, from Tuesday 30 November, face coverings will be mandatory in shops and on public transport and all travellers returning to the UK will require PCR testing. Temporary and precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the new COVID-19 Omicron variant …
A man has been sentenced to two counts of failure to comply with the keeping of chemicals health and safety regulation, as well as four counts of failure to comply with firearm licenses. He was given a 12-month community order and must carry out 80 hours of unpaid work. Shane …
Great Britain’s safety regulator has issued a safety notice on the use of wheeled loading shovels after nine people have been killed in the past four years. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) notice follows the fatal vehicle-pedestrian collisions, six of which were in the waste and recycling sector, with …
A company has been fined after a worker was fatally electrocuted whilst operating a lorry mounted crane. ASL Access Scaffold Limited employee Martin Tilby was fatally electrocuted when the crane he was operating struck an overhead powerline whilst he was unloading materials in a field at Cowbridge, South Glamorgan, Cardiff …
A fencing manufacturer and the owner of the yard where the business operates, have been fined following the death of an employee at the site. Roderick McKenzie Hopes was working for PA Fencing Ltd at the yard, on 14 August 2017, North Somerset Magistrates’ Court was told. A telescopic forklift …
An anglers association has been ordered to pay a £66,000 fine after admitting breaching health and safety laws that led to the death of one of its volunteers. On 9 October 2019, a group of volunteers from the Birmingham Angler’s Association (BAA) were carrying out routine fisheries maintenance working, cutting …
The parent company of a contractor that was building a wind farm in Scotland and a security firm that employed staff to guard the remote site have admitted safety breaches after a security guard was trapped in snow for four and half hours and later died from hypothermia. Another security …
