A company has been fined £380,000 after a delivery driver fell and suffered a traumatic brain injury while working at its site in Walsall. Timothy Bates was delivering fuel for a temporary diesel generator at Haldane Fisher Limited’s timber processing site on Long Street when he fell from a trailer …
An investigation into the death of a 26-year-old who died while working on Everton Football Club’s new stadium has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Construction worker Michael was killed on 14 August 2023 at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool, where the Premier League club’s new ground is …
The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has fined Amazon France Logistique €32m over its ‘excessively intrusive’ system for monitoring employee activity and performance. According to Euronews, the fine is the equivalent of about 3% of the company’s annual revenue, which reached €1.1bn in 2021. The watchdog also fined the business, which …
A garden landscaper has been handed a suspended prison sentence after a worker was killed when a moving circular saw kicked back into his groin. The labourer, who had been working for Watford-based gardener Mr Fernando Araujo for just two days, was killed in the incident at a house on …
Health and Safety Executive – Safety notice Department name: Engagement and Policy Division (EPD)Bulletin number: EPD04-2023Issue date: 12/23 Target audience: Lorry loader operators, owners and hirers, service and repairers, installers, manufacturers, Appointed Persons and sites receiving lorry loaders. Issue On some lorry loaders with powered ‘tilting’ (also known as ‘swing-up’ …
85% of organisations have no fire risk assessment for Lithium-ion battery devices on site Just 15% of organisations say they have conducted a workplace fire risk assessment to cover the risks posed by devices containing lithium-ion batteries (LiB), new research finds. Firechief Global urges organisations to get risk assessed for …
A garage has been fined £12,000 after a customer was crushed by his own vehicle at a garage in North London. Tottenham resident Mahmut Emanet is “lucky to be alive”, according to an inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Mr Emanet spent six days in a critical care …
Two men working on a residential tower under construction in London were fortunate to escape death when a defective cradle they were in fell about 90 feet. On 4 June 2020, Marcel Botnaru and Radu Baracu were working in the cradle at level nine of the Pennington Street building. The …
Earlier this year, IOSH magazine covered the work of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Rose Leese-Weller, whose investigations had brought a failing local exhaust ventilation (LEV) inspection company to account. Quite aside from Rose’s investigations, though, as part of its ‘Dust Kills’ campaign HSE has also been undertaking proactive and targeted inspections …
Three companies have been fined a total of £420,000 after a slate tile fractured the skull of a three-year-old child. The slate came off a roof at a construction site at the Moonfleet Manor hotel in Weymouth, Dorset, and struck the young girl on 13 June 2019. She had been …
