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29th July 2024
What’s Happened? A company and its director have been fined after an employee was struck by an object while manufacturing large steel cable drums for the offshore industry. The employee had been working for the business at its Great Yarmouth site which is involved in metal fabrication. Although the company had manufactured steel drums previously […]
24th July 2024
The claimant (Orwin) began working as an ICT project officer for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in 2018. In April 2022, Caroline Lacey, then chief executive of the local authority, emailed all employees asking them to add their pronouns and a new image to their email signature relating to its corporate priorities. Having communicated […]
10th July 2024
What’s Happened? Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service has recently prosecuted a Blackpool landlord for his failure to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which put the lives and safety of tenants at risk. Fire safety officers from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service were understood to have carried out a routine inspection […]
3rd July 2024
What’s Happened Two companies have been fined after a teenage worker was exposed to asbestos during work to an outbuilding of a domestic property in Richmond, North Yorkshire. The 16-year-old had been working for a Joinery and Building company who had been hired by a principal contractor to refurbish a domestic property. The 16-year-old had […]
27th June 2024
A disabled teacher who received a four-day “career-changing ultimatum” during a forced school transfer has been awarded £61k by an employment tribunal. Allison Shearer, an English support teacher for Clydesdale Support Base in Carluke, refused to move to Kear Secondary School due to extreme anxiety believing it was inevitable that she would experience assault there […]
19th June 2024
What’s Happened? The Landlord of a residential block of flats in Sheffield has recently been sentenced to six months in prison, a £10,000 fine and an additional 250 hours of community service after admitting to violations of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. A fire broke out at the property in the early morning […]
12th June 2024
What’s Happened? A car wash firm has recently been fined £40,000 after it placed both employees and customers at risk from electrical hazards at its site in Devon. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspectors undertook site visits to the car wash site in Tavistock. They found employees were carrying out car washing outdoors, using electrical […]
5th June 2024
Introduction The advice line has received several recent calls from clients who have been subject to visits from the Health and Safety Executive. It can be confusing why some companies are taken to task by the HSE after accidents at work, and others aren’t. In this blog we explore the rationale behind HSE’s decision making […]
30th May 2024
A claim for direct race discrimination has failed after a Japanese language and translation specialist accused her line manager of harassment, bullying and unfair treatment on the basis of her ethnicity. In September 2021, University of London Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg alleged that her boss, Provost Claire Ozanne, raised the subject of Japanese food and that […]