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 …
Barrie John Henry Birch was sentenced to 18 months’ jail, suspended for two years, and disqualified from being a company director for five years after his firm, BBS Improvements, carried out unsafe and unnecessary building work. Workers were put at risk because there was no scaffolding. The fraudulent activity was …
Golf course manager fatally claimed competence with chainsaw. A golf club in Leicestershire has been ordered to pay a £150,000 penalty after it was found guilty of three breaches that led to a manager being killed by a falling branch. Douglas Johnstone, 56, sustained a fatal brain injury while he …
A company that manufactures and repairs rigid-inflatable boats (RIBs) in Hull, Yorkshire, has been sentenced after one of its workers was overcome by solvent fumes and sustained burns when he collapsed in a pool of the substance. The employee of Humber Fabrications (Hull) was using a cloth soaked in dichloromethane …
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
As Stress Awareness Month begins, the chief executive of leading EAP provider Health Assured talks about how employers can manage workplace stress. David Price said the first step in managing stress in the workplace is to become more aware of its causes and effects. Stress statistics New figures released by …
Legend has it that Margaret Thatcher used to run the country on just four hours sleep a night. The oft-quoted rumour helped define an era of the 1980s when sleep, along with lunch, apparently was for wimps. But now we live in more enlightened times and organisations are waking up …
Cunningham Safety Consultants started their “Safety in Business Campaign” today, in Yeovil. With positive feedback from local businesses within the surrounding area. Over the next few months we will be visiting Plymouth, Taunton, Bridgwater, Bristol, Swindon and Gloucester. We are currently offering businesses a free no obligation HSE compliance health …
Another successful Manual Handling Training Course conducted by Cunningham Safety Consultants in London. Course included information on MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (MSDs). MSDs include injury and pain to backs, joints and limbs which can affect your quality of life. Do the right thing and protect your workers from work-related MSDs. Please get in touch if …
The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has announced its decision to withdraw from the construction skills certification scheme (CSCS) card administration service. The construction skills and training provider contacted the CSCS board in early January to terminate the card administration and contact centre contract, ending more than 20 years of …
