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6th February 2019
What do the following have in common? A managing director punches an employee at a drinking session in the early hours; a self-employed doctor sexually assaults a bank’s prospective employees during pre-employment medical checks; a petrol station attendant violently assaults a customer, and an IT auditor releases personal data for staff at Morrisons? The answer: […]
1st February 2019
What’s Happened? At the back end of last year, the HSE prosecuted several companies – all of which failed to manage the risk of forklift trucks (FLTs) on their sites. We take a look at what kind of mistakes were made, and how to avoid falling foul of HSE requirements when operating FLTs. First Case […]
24th January 2019
In July 2017, the UK Government commissioned and published an independent review of ‘Modern Working Practices (namely the ‘Taylor Review’)’ which sought to modernise UK employment law practices to ensure a consistently fair labour market and an evolving legal and social landscape towards the attitudes of employment. Briefly, the independent Taylor Review discovered the need […]
24th January 2019
Receiving a grievance from an employee is rarely welcome – dealing with it can soak up resources, cause disquiet among other employees and in some cases escalate into a dispute which ends up before an employment tribunal. The key to dealing with grievances is to adopt a fair process and to be aware of some […]
23rd January 2019
What’s Happened? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently announced some important news on raised control standards for welding fumes and their planned enforcement measures for welding operations going forward. The reasons for the change in approach is due to an announcement from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who have now […]
23rd January 2019
Lighthouse is seeing more and more clients being pushed down the H&S accreditation route by either their clients or in order to be in with a chance of winning tenders. This blog aims to give a full overview of what these schemes are, and how to go about getting accredited. Overview When the HSE published […]
9th January 2019
What’s Happened? A court has recently heard how employees cleaned up asbestos debris and dust from a floor the size of a football pitch without any precautions. As a result, the firm has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay £7,184 in costs. Poor Management From April to November a construction firm was appointed to […]
13th December 2018
What’s Happening? The HSE has recently reviewed the success of the Report of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 and as a result has proposed a major overhaul of RIDDOR. The changes are fairly wide reaching in that the HSE proposes to not only cut the number of accidents to non-workers which need reporting, […]
13th December 2018
What’s Happened? The owner of a building has recently been fined and given a suspended prison sentence after it was discovered that major refurbishment had taken place without an asbestos survey. When HSE Inspectors visited the large site in Manchester, they found that the Developer had renovated the building without firstly checking for asbestos. The […]