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16th March 2022
What’s Happened? A Yorkshire based Roofing and Construction company has recently been prosecuted for breaches of health and safety regulations after an employee sustained multiple injuries when he fell through a gap in scaffolding whilst working on a building in Scarborough. The 20-year-old labourer was working on the roof of the property when he fell […]
3rd March 2022
What’s Happened? A company that specialises in the manufacture of ventilation ducting has recently been fined £13,000 plus costs after an employee’s hand was drawn into the rotating parts of a machine, resulting in serious injury. It is understood that one of the companies’ apprentice employees was instructed by another apprentice and a trainee on […]
22nd February 2022
There have been a number of employment law and HR updates making the news in February. In our latest blog, we take a look at these events. Wales: Suggestion of 4-Day Working Week Trial The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to trial a shorter working week. A new report, […]
17th February 2022
What’s happened? A landlord of 15 flat block has recently been fined for failing to ensure that gas fittings, appliances and associated flues were checked for safety after a tenant tipped of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) about his concerns. David Mackman was the landlord for at least 15 flats in an old tenement block. […]
9th February 2022
What’s Happened? A holiday apartments owner and his company have recently been ordered to pay a £12,800 fine for failing to put in place suitable life safety fire safety measures in one of its properties. Fire Safety Breaches The company owns holiday premises in Torquay which consist of separate flats leased out to tenants. Following […]
9th February 2022
What’s Happened? A recycling company has recently been fined £17,500 after an 18-year-old employee was injured whilst clearing a blockage in a waste metal chute. Fall from Height The young employee was injured when he fell through a chute, approximately four metres above a concrete yard, whilst clearing a blockage. In an attempt to break […]
27th January 2022
What’s Happened? A construction company has been sentenced after an employee was fatally injured in Liverpool when he fell six metres through a roof whilst working on a replacement roof project. This was a tragic incident, which resulted in a needless loss of life and could have easily been avoided by properly planning the work […]
19th January 2022
What’s Happening? New PPE Regulations are coming into force on 6th April 2022 which amend the existing requirements by extending employers and employees duties regarding PPE to a new category of persons – defined as Limb (b) Workers. Please note – this is a significant change, and businesses need to carefully consider whether the change […]
12th January 2022
What’s Happening? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is set to clamp down on businesses in Sheffield and Rotherham after a sharp increase in the number of serious and fatal incidents noted by its inspectors within the last five years. 22 inspectors from HSE’s Yorkshire and North East field operations teams plan to visit more […]