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13th December 2018
What’s Happened? A Staffordshire social club has recently been fined £20,000 after a volunteer fell from a ladder while putting away some Christmas decorations. A member of The Lea Hall Social Club in Rugeley, was putting extra decorations back in the club’s loft when the loft ladder gave way dropping him two metres on to […]
26th November 2018
What’s Happened? The HSE have recently released the annual injury and ill health statistics for 2017/2018. The annual statistics cover cases of work-related ill health, workplace injuries, working days lost, costs to employers in Great Britain along with details of HSE enforcement action taken. What do They Say? It’s a well known fact that Great Britain […]
1st November 2018
The Scenario This question is commonly asked by clients when our consultancy team are undertaking fire risk assessments at sites. When you’re putting together your buildings excavation strategy you’ll need to appoint key members of staff to take charge in an emergency situation. But once you’ve done that, what training is actually required…….and how often […]
30th October 2018
What’s happening? As most will be aware, the much loathed ‘Fee for Intervention’ (FFI) scheme was introduced in October 2012 by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which allows its inspectors to charge for their time if they find that a business is “in material breach” of H&S legislation. The idea of the scheme being […]
30th October 2018
What’s happened? London Zoo has recently been fined £40,000 after a cleaner fell from a faulty ladder while working inside their hawk aviary. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that the employee suffered neck injuries in the accident while removing droppings from a shelf under the birds’ perches. The ladder she was using had been retrieved from a […]
23rd October 2018
What’s happening? The HSE has recently announced that Construction firms across Great Britain will be targeted on their health and safety standards on the latest inspection initiative this month. The inspections are to be specifically targeted on key areas, with focus given to respiratory risks and occupational lung disease. The Inspectors will be looking at […]
25th September 2018
What’s happened? A company boss who wound up his company in order to avoid paying a health and safety fine has recently found himself back in court and banned from being a director for the next six years. How this did happen, and why was he caught out? The Back Story In 2014 an employee […]
11th September 2018
The Scenario Someone at work has suffered an accident at work and you have had to complete a RIDDOR report for the HSE. The problem is that after doing that, further information could come to light. Are you able to change the contents after it’s been submitted? And if so, how do you go on […]
3rd September 2018
The HSE release fatal accident statistics annually a few months after April. The provisional Fatal Injury Statistics for 2017/18 for 2017/18 have recently been released showing that 144 workers were fatally injured during the period. This figure has risen by 7 comparative to the 2016/17 period, however the report suggests that this is not due […]