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17th September 2020
Garden Discount Centre Limited (GDC) of St. Olaves, Great Yarmouth, have been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,745 following a serious accident involving one of their employees and an excavator. Accident The incident occurred during contracting works being conducted at a school in Cromer, Norfolk. Jeremy Buck was acting as banksman, watching […]
8th September 2020
What’s Happening? We advised back in March 2020 that The Health and Safety Executive had released a statement, which extends the validity of various qualifications including Emergency First Aid at Work and First Aid at Work due to the current pandemic. To qualify for the extension, you must be able to: explain why you haven’t been able to […]
1st September 2020
Three companies have been sentenced for Health and Safety breaches following a fatal incident during the demolition phase of a regeneration project in Newport on the Isle of Wight. Incident Ryde Demolition Ltd had been appointed to conduct part of the demolition works on a residential redevelopment in 2016. On 13 October 2016, David Shayler, […]
25th August 2020
80 year old Frank Finnie was discovered at the bottom of a fire escape stairwell of Aberdeen Indoor Market in June 2018. An investigation into the circumstances around his death found that the management company of the shopping centre – Market Village Company Ltd, had failed to maintain the lighting in the stairwell and that […]
18th August 2020
What’s Happening? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is contacting businesses in Greater Manchester to make sure workplaces are COVID-secure to help tackle the local outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. Inspectors will be carrying out spot checks of workplaces across Greater Manchester, putting employers on the spot, and making sure that they are complying with […]
22nd July 2020
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have stated that they will be making checks on Yorkshire employers to ensure that they are aware of their obligations to comply with the Safer Workplace guidance issued in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The official HSE statement confirmed that ‘Inspectors are out and about visiting businesses across […]
15th July 2020
A Health & Safety Consultant has been prosecuted for providing inadequate advice to one of his clients. Clive Weal fell foul of Section 3(2) of the Health & Safety at Work Act, requiring a self-employed person to conduct their undertaking in such a way as to ensure that they and others are not exposed to […]
9th July 2020
Since lockdown easing measures were announced, UK employers have new guidance measures to follow in order to make their workplaces COVID-19 safe. As was to be expected, the Health & Safety regulator – the HSE – have received excessive numbers of complaints and concerns relating to COVID. Between 9th March and 29th June, 23,569 COVID-related […]
25th June 2020
Two directors of The Blackpool Pier Company have been handed 300 hours of unpaid work after the decision was taken to demolish part of an asbestos lined arcade while visitors to the attraction were free to access the adjacent areas. The company has also been fined £134,000 and ordered to pay costs totalling £38,000. It […]