Polski Dzial Study Finds Mobile Phone Usage When Driving Still Common
A study has found that mobile phone usage when driving is still exceptionally common after almost two-thirds of drivers admitted to seeing at least one driver per hour use their phone behind the wheel illegally. The research, which came from the RAC, found that 64% of motorists saw a driver using their phone during their […]
Tackling the Cancer Risk from Dust
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called for a more joined up approach to controlling mineral dust in the workplace to help reduce the UK’s occupational cancer burden. According to IOSH, around 800 people in Britain a year die from lung cancer caused by prolonged exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) at […]
Glasgow Company Fined for Worker’s Hand Injury
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 […]
Road Safety across the UK
There is a dramatic difference in the progress made in cutting death and injury on the roads across the UK over the past five years. While the general trend has been downwards this has masked big national and regional variations, the RAC Foundation has claimed. Compared with the 2005-9 average (the Government’s baseline for monitoring […]
Family awarded compensation over son’s death
The family of a Renfrewshire man who was hit by a car and fatally injured have been awarded around £100,000 in damages at the Court of Session, reports the Scotsman. Gavin Currie had been out with friends when he was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing. He was taken to hospital in Paisley […]
Christmas party-goers urged to help save lives
Road safety charity Brake and Direct Line are appealing to party-goers to help prevent Christmas tragedies by standing up to designated drivers who break their promise by drinking alcohol. This puts their passengers and other road users at risk. Research released by Brake and Direct Line shows a huge shift in public attitudes towards drink […]
Report into patient safety incidents
The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has published the latest set of Organisation Patient Safety Incident data. The figures show that there were 612,414 patient safety incidents in England between 1st October 2011 and 31st March 2012 that were submitted to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) by 31st May 2012. This is an […]
Bill proposed to reform FAI system
Labour MSP Patricia Ferguson has launched a consultation exercise over a proposed member’s bill to reform Scotland’s Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) System. The proposed Inquiries into Deaths (Scotland) Bill is intended to re-enact with amendments the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1976 in the follow ways: “(a) to extend the scope of […]