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9th January 2019
What’s Happened? A court has recently heard how employees cleaned up asbestos debris and dust from a floor the size of a football pitch without any precautions. As a result, the firm has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay £7,184 in costs. Poor Management From April to November a construction firm was appointed to […]
13th December 2018
What’s Happening? The HSE has recently reviewed the success of the Report of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 and as a result has proposed some major changes. The changes are fairly wide reaching in that the HSE proposes to not only cut the number of accidents to non-workers which need reporting, but also […]
13th December 2018
What’s Happened? The owner of a building has recently been fined and given a suspended prison sentence after it was discovered that major refurbishment had taken place without an asbestos survey. When HSE Inspectors visited the large site in Manchester, they found that the Developer had renovated the building without firstly checking for asbestos. The […]
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 […]
12th December 2018
A recent case before the Employment Tribunal has highlighted the risk to employers of placing too much emphasis on the results of a drug test when dismissing employees to gross misconduct. In the instant case, a bus driver with 20 years of service consented to a random drug test by his employer. A saliva test […]
12th December 2018
Many businesses in the United Kingdom offer insurance benefits for employees in the event of their long-term or permanent incapacity during employment. This is commonly known as permanent health insurance (PHI) and typically provides a proportion of full pay to an employee for an often significant length of time where they are unable to work […]
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 […]
26th November 2018
Bowls of fresh fruit and mindfulness sessions are becoming increasingly common in the workplace as employers try to promote the wellbeing of their staff. A successful wellbeing strategy can improve employee attendance and retention, as well as productivity. It can also help shield you from compensation claims brought by employees for stress-related conditions which may […]
26th November 2018
Vicarious liability is an indirect form of liability that can open the door for legal action against the employer for tortious (wrongful) acts done by the employee. An employer can be liable for the acts of its employees, if they are carried out “in the course of employment”. In recent years, case law has dramatically […]
