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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 […]
22nd February 2023
Are written terms relevant for Employment Status? Yes, found the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)l in Ter-Berg v Simply Smile Manor House Ltd and others [2023] EAT 2. The EAT found that the Employment Tribunal has erred in not starting their analysis of whether the Dr Ter-Berg (The Claimant) was an employee by considering the terms […]
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 […]
1st February 2023
What’s Happened? A building firm has recently been fined £120,000 plus costs after a catalogue of health and safety failings which even included two builders being lifted into the air by a raised excavator bucket! A concerned member of the public is understood to have taken a photograph of the workers who were stood in […]
25th January 2023
In the case of Mr Tunnicliff v Baytree Car Sales and Others (2601351/2022) the tribunal determined that Mr Tunnicliff dismissal was procedurally unfair and Baytree Car Sales had fabricated a disciplinary process and documents. The Claimant, Mr Tunnicliff worked for the Respondent, Baytree Car Sales as a manager for 24 years before his dismissal. It […]
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 […]