Two Companies Fined For Breaches Of Health And Safety Legislation After Two Workers Seriously Injured, UK

The Health and Safety Executive has again urged construction companies to take sensible, effective precautions to protect employees and others affected by work at height.
This follows a sentencing at Aylesbury Crown Court, at which Environmental Reclamation Ltd (ERL) of St Albans, Hertfordshire, was fined a total of £30,000, and ordered to pay £21,360.11 costs for [...]

City building sites the focus of health and safety crackdown

A CRACKDOWN on dangerous or unsafe building sites has been launched across the Capital.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) warned that it will be “out in force” carrying out spot checks on refurbishment projects this week with environmental health officers
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Lack of safety protection led to teenager’s fatal fall from scaffolding

A firm that tried to claim a 17-year-old employee had four years’ experience as a scaffolder was fined £50,000 after the young man was killed in an 18-metre plummet from the unsafe structure on which he was working.
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Safety Inspectors sound Northumberland alert

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned the construction sector in Northumberland it will not tolerate poor safety standards that puts refurbishment workers at risk of dying or serious injury.
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Lawyers in call to recognise bosses’ safety efforts

EMPLOYERS with good health and safety records should be publicly praised as a reward for putting workers’ safety at the top of their agendas, according to lawyers acting for injured workers.
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Councils conduct ‘chainsaw massacre’ on trees over health and safety fears

Over-zealous council chiefs are ripping out the ancient trees that line Britain’s streets and parks because of misguided fears about health and safety.
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Legal Q&A Safety at work

Slips and trips are the most common causes of workplace injuries, with almost 11,000 major accidents each year. This month the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched a new initiative aimed at reducing the number of slips, trips and falls in the workplace – targeting, in particular, construction workers, electricians and kitchen managers.
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Health and safety review may lead to locking of Elizabethan Walls

BERWICK’S historic Elizabethan Walls could be locked at night as part of a move being considered by English Heritage and the local council.
The health and safety of the Ramparts is being examined following last summer’s death of a woman who fell around 25 feet from the walls near the Scotsgate arch and died two weeks [...]

Manual Handling Health & Safety Course Launched on ALISON

Manual Handling Health & Safety Course Launched on ALISON. Companies across the UK and Ireland are under increasing pressure from their respective health and safety authorities to wise up to manual handling regulations or face potential prosecution. In response ALISON has partnered with leading health and safety industry experts, Praxis42, to, provide a range of [...]

E.coli butcher failed to adhere to food safety rules

WILLIAM Tudor was granted his first butcher’s licence despite not possessing a relevant food safety certificate.

E.coli butcher failed to adhere to food safety rules