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Staffordshire County Council and a refurbishment firm have been fined for exposing a nursery class, school staff and two joiners to asbestos fibres. Stafford Crown Court heard two joiners were cutting through a large built-in cupboard in the nursery class when they noticed unidentified material nailed to the back of it. They showed this to […]
Businesses and organisations with cooling towers in the west of Scotland are facing checks to ensure they are managing legionella risks appropriately. Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities are currently visiting cooling towers and evaporative condensers in Glasgow, North Ayrshire, Inverclyde and Renfrewshire. The checks are expected to inform visits […]
Injuries inflicted with needles and other sharp instruments in the healthcare sector could be avoided if regulatory loopholes were closed, campaigners have claimed. In response to a consultation, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has called on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) not to water down but to implement in full a European […]
A Leicestershire building firm has been fined after an employee fell five metres and was then struck by a wooden board and concrete blocks after a partially-built floor gave way. Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard that the worker was helping to construct the second floor of a new build house when it gave way after being […]
The Supreme Court has held that a Catholic teaching institute is vicariously liable for alleged acts of sexual and physical abuse of children by its members between 1952 and 1992 at St Williams, a residential institution at Market Weighton for boys in need of care. The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools did […]
A Gloucestershire manufacturer has appeared in court after a teenage apprentice had parts of two fingers severed in unguarded machinery. The 17-year-old was working at factory in Lydney when the glove on his right hand became caught in a rotating cutter, slicing off the tops of his index and middle fingers to the first joint. […]
To coincide with Road Safety Week, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has published new research showing overwhelming public backing for radical new proposals to help stop young people dying or being seriously injured on our roads. According to the ABI, the single biggest cause of accidental death of young people aged 15-24 is dying […]
The European Commission has reached agreement with international partners on new internationally harmonised rules on Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) and Lane Departure Warning Systems (LDWS) for commercial vehicles. The inclusion of these measures in the United Nations’ International Agreement on vehicle construction will ensure that the same requirements are adopted not only by Europe, […]
A defence company has been ordered to pay £376,000 in fines and costs for safety failings that caused a fatal explosion at its Hampshire factory in 2006. Anthony Sheridan was emptying one of six industrial ovens used in the manufacture of military flares. The ovens contained high levels of nitroglycerin (NG) that exploded, destroying the […]
A Bill designed to close the legal loophole allowing partnerships to evade prosecution by dissolving, as happened in the Rosepark fire in Uddingston, has been introduced to the House of Lords by the Advocate General for Scotland Lord Wallace of Tankerness. The House of Lords gave the Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Bill its First Reading at […]
A two-pronged attack on health and safety by the Government will expose workers and members of the public to greater risk of injury, campaigners have warned. In response to two consultations, the not-for-profit Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has urged the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to reconsider proposals to exempt self-employed people from […]
Recently published figures have revealed slight falls in a number of key areas of workplace ill-health and injury in Scotland. The provisional statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive show that in Scotland between April 2011 and March 2012:
Lighter nights all year round could help to arrest the rising number of road deaths, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). As the clocks go back, marking the end of British Summer Time, RoSPA has highlighted how an extra hour of evening daylight across the UK could help to significantly […]
Proposed new rules on how old insurance records are searched are a “missed opportunity” to ensure the industry honours its responsibility to sick and dying workers. Not-for-profit campaign group the Association of Personal Lawyers (APIL) says new plans to make insurance companies search their historical records properly if a potential claim for compensation is being […]
Doctors in the UK are to become the first in the world to have regular assessments to ensure that their training and expertise are up-to-date and that they are fit to carry out their roles, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. The new system, called medical revalidation, will help doctors keep up to the standard […]
Truro Crown court has heard that an elderly man with dementia was able to wander into another resident’s room at his nursing home and fall to his death from a window. Reginald Gibbings, 89, fell 3.6 metres from the room in July 2008. The court was told that Mr Gibbings had been admitted to the […]
Dozens of construction sites across Scotland have been put under the spotlight as part of an intensive inspection regime by the Health and Safety Executive. A total of 78 sites were inspected across Scotland during the first three weeks of September and while the majority were found to be managing health and safety appropriately, work […]
People involved in health and safety at work are being invited to take part in a UK-wide study into the sources of information they use, either in their workplaces or when giving guidance to others. Advice and guidance on how to protect workers, such as workplace design and manual handling, are many and varied in […]
Urgent action is needed to improve the safety of young drivers, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). The industry group says that radical measures are necessary – including a minimum one year learning period. The ABI has published a report – ‘Improving the Safety of Young Drivers’ – which reveals over a quarter […]
A Nottinghamshire demolition company and one of its employees have appeared in court after a worker suffered severe injuries when he was hit by a falling excavator bucket on his first day on site. Labourer James Wilson was working for the company on a demolition site in Worksop in January 2011. The excavator driver was […]