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18th April 2023
What’s Happened? A manufacturing company has recently been fined £600,000 after a worker’s leg was crushed by a forklift truck. The employee was working at the companies Birmingham site at the time of the incident. He had been walking across a pedestrian crossing at the site when a forklift truck (that was being driven by […]
5th April 2023
What’s Happened? The HSE has recently launched a new campaign entitled ‘Asbestos and You’ with the aim of reminding those working in construction (and allied) trades to manage the risks associated with asbestos. Despite the product having been banned within the building industry since 1999, figures show that 5,000 people a year still die from […]
15th March 2023
What’s Happening? This is an important notice to remind those clients responsible for the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England that they have six months from April 2023 to register with the new Building Safety Regulator. Within England, there are approximately 12,500 affected ‘high-rise’ buildings. The new regulator will require all of them to […]
8th March 2023
In January this year, Kingsland Drinks Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching sections 2 and 3 of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 following a fatal incident involving a delivery driver in their yard. John Fitzpatrick was waiting for his trailer to be loaded when he was struck by a forklift truck. He was […]
1st March 2023
Introduction A recent employment tribunal has concluded that an employee’s long covid symptoms amounted to a disability. What factors were taken into account, and what are the health and safety implications of this ruling? What’s Happened? The employee of a homeless person’s charity had been employed as a caretaker for over 20 years when he […]
15th February 2023
What’s Happened? A West Yorkshire-based company has recently been fined £120,000 after a dad died following a fall from the roof of a building site. The employee and a co-worker were using ropes to install a lightning protection system to the front of a Warrington office block being converted into flats, it is understood that […]
8th February 2023
What’s Happened? A care home provider has recently been fined £400k after an eight-year-old child suffered serious injuries when a tree fell on her. The girl was understood to be out for an evening jog with her father alongside the grounds of the Southampton based care home. As she was running on a pavement outside […]
18th January 2023
What’s Happened? A Kent-based food production company has recently been fined £858,000 after a 26-year- old employee had to have his right arm surgically removed following a machinery incident. The employee was understood to be removing filling ingredients from a paddle mixer at the company’s factory site when his arm became entangled in the unguarded […]
12th January 2023
There were a number of large fines handed out to some household names by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) for breaches of UK safety law in 2022. In August, Dyson received a £1,200,000 penalty after an employee was struck by a large item of machinery. Also in August, B&M Retail Ltd was fined £1,000,000 […]