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3rd May 2023
What Happened? A West Yorkshire-based supply company has recently been fined £30k after an explosion of flammable liquid led to a fire at its premises in Halifax. An employee at the site had been decanting a flammable chemical named heptane from a metal drum into a plastic bulk container without suitable precautions. The so-called ‘splash […]
27th April 2023
In the recent case of Farzana Yasin v Swift Lawyers Ltd (2407552/2021) the Employment Tribunal held that Ms Yasin (‘the Claimant’) was discriminated against on the grounds of pregnancy but was not unfairly dismissed. The Respondent was a Law Firm and the Claimant commenced employment in 2017 as a paralegal working on cavity wall insulation […]
20th April 2023
What’s Happened? A company has recently been fined after an employee fractured his back and ribs following a fall from the roof of a house where he was working in Cheshire. Why did the accident happen, and what can you do to protect your workers from falls from a height? Chain of Events Employees of […]
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 […]
29th March 2023
Shirley Lyons (“the Claimant”) was employed by Starplan (“the Respondent”) as a designer/sales consultant from June 2013 until her resignation in April 2018. At the Respondent’s Christmas party in December 2017, the Claimant was the only female employee in attendance. At a restaurant, one of her male colleagues commented on her breasts and cleavage whilst […]
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 […]