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24th April 2024
At an internal staff awards ceremony, a male, Muslim teaching assistant was awarded the Christmas Grinch Prize. He later brought an employment tribunal claim against the school for religious discrimination. Salah Toughfar claimed he was “upset and distressed” after being compared to a character with such negative connotations, despite him being unaware of the Christmas-associated […]
17th April 2024
What’s Happened In a case which highlights the dangers arising from inadequate management of workplace transport, we take a closer look at an incident which saw a delivery driver sustain a traumatic brain injury after he fell from a trailer. The incident landed a company with a £380,000 fine for health and safety failings. The […]
10th April 2024
A video of a worker using a pallet on the raised forks of a forklift as a working platform in July 2022 was sent to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) by a member of the public. The worker was seen standing on the pallet to remove items from the deck of a ship at […]
3rd April 2024
INEOS Chemicals Grangemouth Ltd pled guilty to breaches of Section 2(1) and Section 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 following the incident at their site in Grangemouth, Scotland on 25th November 2019. The injured party had been attempting to clear a sump containing a caustic solution that had reached its high-level […]
27th March 2024
A humanitarian aid charity called Human Relief Foundation has been ordered to pay an ex-employee £31,000 following an unfair dismissal complaint. Background to Whistleblowing What is whistleblowing? You are a whistleblower if you are a worker and you report wrongdoing. The wrongdoing you disclose must be in the public interest and therefore must affect others. […]
20th March 2024
What’s Happened? One of the nation’s largest producers of supermarket pizzas – providing millions of pizzas each year, has recently been fined £800,000 after two workers suffered serious injuries at its Lancashire factory. The company was hit with a sizable fine after employees were seriously injured having being caught up in machinery during two separate […]
13th March 2024
What’s Happened An engineering firm based Perth has been recently fined £10,000 after an employee lost two of his fingers when carrying our maintenance works on a machine. The employee was understood to have inadvertently placed his hand into the blades of an unguarded rotary fan used as a grain dryer. The fan was rotating […]
8th March 2024
Two friends walking a popular route near Masham, North Yorkshire, were confronted by a herd of cows on 25th July 2021. The pair had been walking a dog on his lead across fields and public rights of way near Shaws Farm. Upon entering one of the fields through which their path cut, they noticed a […]
28th February 2024
What’s Happened? A bedding manufacturer in Rochdale has recently been fined more than £250,000 after two of its employees were seriously injured during separate incidents at its manufacturing site. The first incident involved an employee who was working his first day on the production line. He was instructed to clean the measuring wheel on a […]