Polski Dzial Vauxhall owner sentenced over Ellesmere Port death
The owner of Vauxhall has been fined £150,000 over the death of a long-serving worker who was crushed in machinery at its car factory in Ellesmere Port. General Motors UK Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after Ian Heard was found badly injured at the North Road plant. He was taken […]
Doctors’ working hours pose risk to patients
Patients’ safety and wellbeing could be at risk because the working patterns of doctors in training are leaving them too tired and stressed. These are the worrying findings of a recent study commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC). Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the GMC, explained that some doctors may still be working nearly […]
Crown Censure for MOD
The death of a 14-year-old army cadet has led to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) receiving an HSE Crown Censure. Crown employers, such as the MOD, cannot face prosecution in the same way as non-Government bodies. Therefore Crown Censures are agreed procedures applied to these bodies in lieu of criminal proceedings. The facts of the […]
Compensation awarded for clinical trial death
The family of a man who died while taking part in a clinical trial has been awarded an undisclosed amount in compensation, reports Orange News. Luigi Belcuore underwent surgery at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry in 2009, as part of a trial of a new medical procedure to treat knee cartilage […]
Compensation agreed for fatal car crash
Car manufacturer Toyota has agreed to pay compensation to the family of an American couple who died when their Toyota Camry hit a wall, reports the BBC. The family claimed in their wrongful death suit that the accident was caused by a fault in the car which caused it to suddenly accelerate out with the […]
Workplace ill health and injury in Scotland
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:
New checks for doctors in patient safety boost
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 […]
Nursing home fined for elderly man’s fatal fall
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 […]
Working at height put under safety spotlight
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 […]
Excavator driver sentenced after worker injury
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 […]