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18th May 2022
What’s Happened? A Lancashire based engineering company has recently been fined £500,000 with costs of £145,487 following a fatal incident concerning one of their employees during the maintenance of machinery. The company specialises in the manufacture of containers and drums for the nuclear, aerospace and medical industries. An employee of the business was understood to […]
11th May 2022
In celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we will be enjoying an additional bank holiday on 3 June 2022, and the usual late May bank holiday has been moved to 2 June 2022. Whilst many employees will be glad of the upcoming 4-day weekend, are they all entitled to take the additional bank holiday as […]
4th May 2022
What’s Happened? A jam and preserve manufacturer has recently been fined £40,000 after a worker fell from a ladder and suffered multiple fractures. An employee of The Clarendon Food Company Ltd was understood to have been installing a security camera on the outside of their production building. He was using an unsecured ladder. As he […]
27th April 2022
Research by BUPA concluded that almost a million workers left their jobs before the pandemic due to experiencing menopause symptoms. A further poll by Research without Borders found the primary reasons for those leaving the workforce. These included the high pressures placed on them, the lack of flexible working arrangements to manage their symptoms, and a lack […]
20th April 2022
What’s Happened? A landlord and the Responsible Person for an office block in Bedford have recently been fined over £40,000 relating to a number of breaches of the Fire Safety Order. A site audit of the property was undertaken by Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (BFRS) resulted in various deficiencies being identified. As such, both […]
13th April 2022
What’s Happened? A roofer and scaffolder have recently been prosecuted over a fatal fall from the roof of a two-storey terraced house. The incident occurred due to neither contractor putting in place simple preventative measures in place to avoid the incident. Two roofers were working on the property’s roof – a 2 story terraced house […]
6th April 2022
This blog concerns the recently released new standard (BS 8629:2019) which covers ‘the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of evacuation alert systems for use by the Fire and Rescue Service in buildings containing flats.’ which came about after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. What is an evacuation alert system (EAS)? An evacuation alert system is an alarm […]
30th March 2022
What’s Happening From April 2022 the HSE has announced that it will be embarking on a targeted inspection of woodworking businesses across the UK – specifically looking at wood dust control. What is the Aim? The HSE has estimated that there are around 12,00 death per annum attributed to lung diseases which are linked to […]
23rd March 2022
Managing COVID-19 in the Workplace Following the publication of the government’s plan for ‘Living with COVID’ in February 2022, we were provided with a roadmap to the (potentially final) removal of all COVID-19 restrictions. We saw the first change implemented from 24 February 2022 which brought an end to the legal requirement to Self-Isolate upon […]