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New guidance to encourage better management of occupational health risks has been launched by the construction industry. Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued more than 200 health related enforcement notices during its recent construction inspection initiative, and the HSE is urging the industry to put an end to the hundreds of construction […]
A boy who sustained severe brain damage as a result of failings by medical staff after his birth has been awarded compensation amounting to over £6 million, reports the Doncaster Free Press. Ten-year-old Bradley Albans was born in Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Nottinghamshire and in the days following his birth he developed dangerously low […]
A Glasgow printing and packaging company has been sentenced after a worker’s hand was severely injured in machinery. The long-serving employee suffered the injury when his right hand was pulled into an embossing and foiling machine he was working on. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard he was attempting to prevent the machine from jamming when his […]
New figures published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have revealed that over a million people are being made ill by their work, which is costing society around £14.3 billion. Despite Britain remaining one of the safest places to work in Europe, injury and ill-health statistics released by the HSE show that an estimated […]
An MP in England has published a Private Members’ Bill that calls for greater fairness for bereaved people and victims of psychiatric harm in England and Wales. The Negligence and Damages Bill has been introduced by Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald and is supported by national not-for-profit campaign group the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). […]
A well-known food manufacturer has been sentenced after a worker suffered severe leg and foot injuries while working on one of its production lines. The company appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court after a Health and Safety Executive investigation found safety failings related to the incident. Short term contract worker Jodie Cormack had climbed onto the […]
East Ayrshire Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to make a pledge to a campaign against the biggest cause of work-related deaths. The council has signed up to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) No Time to Lose drive, which aims to raise awareness of exposure to cancer-causing substances found […]
The UK Government is due to release detailed road casualty figures for 2014. According to the RAC Foundation, these are expected to show that last year in Great Britain 1,775 people died on the roads (a 4% increase on the year before). A further 22,807 were seriously injured (a 5% annual increase). While current casualty […]
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) No Time to Lose campaign has recently received the backing of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin (APPG), which raises awareness of skin-related issues at Parliament. Members of APPG have endorsed IOSH’s efforts to highlight through the campaign the link between solar radiation exposure and work-related cancer […]
The Injuries Board in Ireland saw a 7% increase in new personal injury claims in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, taking the total number of new claims received to 17,132. The Injuries Board is the independent statutory body which makes personal injury compensation awards in Ireland. Of […]
An English NHS Trust has agreed to pay substantial compensation to the family of a patient who died after receiving substandard care at one of its hospitals, reports the Mirror. Christine Carpenter had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer when she attended the A&E department at Hull Royal Infirmary. Her husband had highlighted to staff […]
Six sheriffs have been appointed as specialists who will sit in Scotland’s new Sheriff Personal Injury Court. Sheriff Paul Arthurson QC, Sheriff Peter Braid, Sheriff Gordon Liddle, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie, Sheriff Kenneth McGowan and Sheriff Fiona Reith QC have been designated by Sheriff Principal Mhairi Stephen QC, the Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders, as […]
The operators of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery have been sentenced for safety failings relating to an incident in which a worker was injured at the plant. The employee was carrying out a cleaning operation on a vent pipe, and while opening a vent valve on a walkway 25 meters above ground, was sprayed in the […]
Britain is still failing to adequately tackle its drink driving problem, leading to too many deaths and serious injuries on the roads, road safety charity Brake has warned. The charity has reiterated its call for a zero-tolerance drink drive limit, in response to Government figures showing that 240 people were killed by drivers over the […]
According to new medical candour guidelines, midwives, nurses and doctors will be required to make verbal apologies to patients following any medical mistakes. Under new duty of candour rules, medical professionals will be encouraged to apologise as soon as they have realised there was an issue following new guidance from the General Medical Council and […]
A new report from Ireland’s Injury Board has revealed that the month of July saw the highest frequency of accidents resulting in compensation awards, while Saturday proved to be the most dangerous day of the week for public place personal injury accidents. The Injuries Board is the independent State body in Ireland that makes statutory […]
Road safety charity Brake has recently set out its vision for a future free of the needless trauma of road death and injury. Following the first annual increase in road casualties of all severities in 17 years, Brake says that the time has come for the Government to make a statement of intent by reinstating […]
There were 142 work related fatalities between April 2014 and March 2015 (a rate of 0.46 fatalities per 100,000 workers), according to provisional annual data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This compares to last year’s all-time low of 136 (0.45 fatalities per 100,000 workers). The statistics apparently confirm the UK to be […]
A Glasgow construction firm has been sentenced for serious safety failings after a worker was crushed to death when a 1.6 tonnes frame fell onto him during construction of a steel stair tower. Daniel Hurley was employed as a groundworker by a company that was sub-contracted to work on a major development of flats and […]
Brake, the road safety charity, has called upon the Scottish Government to take steps to reverse an increase in the number of deaths on Scotland’s roads. The latest statistics from Transport Scotland have revealed that 200 people were killed in 2014, which is an increase of 16% over 2013.There was also a 1% increase in […]