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27th April 2017
Two family-run companies have been fined over £35,000 this month after admitting health and safety failings. Namely, failing to carry out an asbestos survey at their site in Manchester, where they were carrying out a basement conversion. Manchester Crown Court heard how Hatters Taverns Limited had appointed a sister company, Hatters Hostel Limited, as the main […]
18th April 2017
In our recent blog we announced that the HSE’s Fee for Intervention (FFI) scheme faced a Judicial Review at the High Court. Since then there have been further developments… What is FFI? OK, quick recap – Fee for Intervention (FFI) is the process under which the HSE charges for its Inspector’s time when it uncovers […]
27th February 2017
The UK’s largest construction safety group – Building Safety Group – has issued a report detailing a 42% rise in the number of hand-arm vibration non-compliance identified during their regime of site inspections. The increase was recorded over 20,000 site inspections conducted by the Group in 2016. The figure compares the first six months of […]
24th February 2017
The director of a construction company has been prosecuted for failing to take appropriate action, which resulted in a young worker receiving serious burns. The court heard how company director, David Stead, instructed a young worker to stand on top of a skip and pour a drum of flammable thinners onto the burning waste to […]
14th February 2017
The HSE’s much loathed Fee for Intervention (FFI) scheme is facing a judicial review, in early 2017. We will keep you posted on the result. However, don’t expect the scheme to disappear overnight. Even if the review goes against the HSE, it’s expected that it will lodge an appeal. What’s happening? Towards the end of last […]
9th February 2017
Two incriminating images taken by members of the public at a Manchester hotel development have resulted in the prosecutions of two company directors, one company and an employee. The pictures, which were taken just two months apart from each other, show workers balanced precariously on the roof of a Manchester hotel development. Unsafe working The first […]
25th January 2017
An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device which automatically diagnoses the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient. It can treat the patient through defibrillation which involves the application of electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm. Defibrillator use training Training in […]
23rd January 2017
In December, a property management company was fined £120,000 after a 29 year old man passed away tragically after falling down a lift shaft. Upon investigation by the HSE, it was found that the man had been trapped inside the lift and struggled to escape, having been unable to raise the alarm. Bolton Crown Court […]
3rd January 2017
Car Giant Volvo has recently been prosecuted £900,000, ordered it to pay costs of £5,820 after an employee was seriously injured following a fall from stepladders at their Truck and Bus Depot in Enfield, North London. The technician was servicing a lorry owned by delivery firm DHL when he identified that the access rope to […]