Polski Dzial Action needed to tackle rise in drink drive deaths
A road safety charity has called on the Government to take action in the wake of new road traffic accident figures showing a 17% increase in drink drive deaths in Britain. The statistics, from the Department for Transport, reveal that in 2012, 280 people were killed (one in six road deaths) and 1,210 were seriously […]
Fall in fatal injuries to workers
New provisional figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal a fall in the number of workers killed in Britain in the last year – down to 148 between April 2012 and March 2013, from 172 in the previous year. The overall rate of fatal injury has dropped to 0.5 per 100,000 workers, below […]
Control of Asbestos Regulations
The Health and Safety Executive has advised that the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 came into force on 6th April 2012, updating previous asbestos regulations to take account of the European Commission’s view that the UK had not fully implemented the EU Directive on exposure to asbestos. In practice the changes are fairly limited. They […]