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 …
A contractor and scaffolding firm must pay almost £63,000 after a subcontracted worker plunged 5 m through poorly erected scaffolding after the roof’s edge protection gave way. Jhanade Ryan was installing solar panels on the roof of roofing and cladding sheeting manufacturer Firth Steels, when he slipped on the fragile surface …
A manufacturer and supplier of body trim parts for the automotive industry has been fined £1.6m after a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak and an explosion at its factory in the north east of England left five people seriously ill and a teenager with first degree burns. Both incidents took place at …
From million-pound plus fines to prison sentences, there have been some major prosecutions in occupational health and safety in 2017 – affecting household names such as Wilko, Warburtons, JD Sports, Travis Perkins, and Iceland. The latest enforcement figures published by the Health and Safety Executive have shown a major rise in health …
A wood waste company was sentenced today for safety breaches after a worker was killed when he fell four metres from a walking floor trailer in South Yorkshire while manually un-sheeting the unit. Paul Littlewood died from his injuries following the incident at R Plevin & Sons’ site in Hazlehead. …
Figures obtained by the Unite union, via a Freedom of Information request, have revealed that since 2010 there has been a 25% reduction in the number of HSE inspectors. In 2010 there were 1,311 frontline inspectors – by 31 December 2016 that number had reduced to just 980, says the union. Unite …
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Crest Nicholson Operations, the principal contractor of a large housing development project in Surrey, has been fined after a worker was run over by a heavy goods vehicle (HGV). CDM failing costs Crest Nicholson £800k David Cole, who was contracted to Harlequin Brickwork, was working as a foreman on the …
HAVS is generated from the use of hand-held power tools and is the cause of significant ill health resulting in painful and disabling disorders of the blood vessels, nerves and joints. You have probably heard of Vibration White Finger that affects the circulation in the hand, but there are a …
