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25th April 2019
What’s Happened? This article highlights how tragic accidents and incidents can arise even in what would generally be perceived as a ‘low risk’ retail environment. The owners of Topshop have recently been heavily fined following an accident in which a queue barrier fell on to a young girl. Just a week later, a similar accident […]
11th April 2019
What’s happened? The HSE has recently raised its FFI rate to a whopping £154 per hour. This is a significant price increase from the previous rate of £129 per hour. If you are found to be in material breach of health and safety law, you will have to pay for the time it takes the […]
9th April 2019
Many significant areas of employment law are based on EU law, such as working time rights and employee rights on the transfer of a business. After the UK leaves the EU, with or without a deal, EU employment law will be converted into UK law. Depending on the terms of any deal reached with the […]
27th March 2019
What’s Happened? A Building repair and maintenance company has recently been fined £150,000 after an employee fell two metres from a ladder and injured himself while working on a roof. An employee of the firm was working alongside one of his colleagues to repair a leaky roof at a property in Felixstowe. They accessed the […]
19th March 2019
What’s Happening? The housing minister has recently announced new measures to improve electrical safety within the private rental sector. If you are a landlord/have properties you rent out, or provide for staff use, how will you be affected? Long Time Coming… It has long been argued that landlords should be obliged to carry out electrical […]
13th March 2019
Our H&S advice line has received a spate of calls recently regarding clients who have suffered items falling from their racking systems. What steps should you be taking in this scenario? The Risks Racking is higher risk than it might at first appear, with the potential for falling objects or collapse, however most of the […]
7th March 2019
While the right to 28 days’ paid holiday was a welcome addition to workers’ rights, employers have been less enthusiastic about the complicated development of the rules, particularly if staff work irregular hours or their pay includes commission or bonus payments. With the law being so hard to navigate, it is easy to unwittingly miscalculate […]
25th February 2019
What’s Happened? In a recent interesting case, a manufacturing company has been prosecuted by the HSE in connection with a vehicle collision, even though no workers were injured. A visiting tanker collided with a fork lift truck (FLT) at the premises of a manufacturing company. At the time of the accident the tanker was reversing […]
20th February 2019
What’s happened? As warned in a previous post, During October 2018 HSE inspectors completed a blitz of construction and refurbishment sites throughout the UK. What did they find? Annual Tradition It seems to be becoming an annual event for HSE construction Inspectors to hit many sites each autumn with unannounced inspections. The main focus of […]