Polski Dzial Campaign to Raise Awareness of Falls from Height
A new campaign to raise awareness of the impact that accidents at work, and in particular accidents involving falls from height, can have on workers and their families has been launched by safety charity RoSPA. Falls from Height RoSPA highlights that falls from height were the most common cause of work-related fatalities in 2013/14, with […]
Farming Business Sentenced After Roof Fall Injury
A Perthshire farming business has been fined for safety failings after a worker was injured when he fell through a roof light of a cattle barn. The 18-year-old had been lifted by a colleague onto the roof in a basket attached to a telehandler forklift truck to carry out work clearing gutters. He walked to […]
Overhaul of guidance for working at height
An overhaul of guidance on working at height is being launched as part of the Government’s long-term economic plan to abolish or improve outdated, burdensome or over-complicated regulations that waste businesses’ time and money. More than a million British businesses and ten million workers are estimated to carry out jobs involving some form of work […]