Health and safety seminar

DONCASTER is to host a seminar for some of the country’s top health and safety professionals next month.
The Spring into Safety 2008 seminar takes place at Thornhurst Manor Golf Club on Wednesday March 5.
The event is organised by the Health and Safety Executive and Askern-based Advanced Safety Group.
The aim is to raise awareness of issues [...]

Higher standard of training must reflect proper risk assessment

Allison v London Underground Ltd
Before Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls, Lady Justice Smith and Lord Justice Hooper
Judgment February 13, 2008The statutory requirement for an employer to provide adequate training for its employees imposed a higher duty than the common law duty which incorporated reasonable foreseeability; the statutory test was what training was needed [...]

How childhood is ‘being ruined by health and safety regulations’

 generation of youngsters is having its childhood ruined by mounting political correctness and bureaucratic red tape, a hard-hitting Government report states.Children’s education is being fundamentally damaged and communities undermined by ludicrous rules and an “everyone must have prizes” mentality.
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Safety chiefs investigate after 20,000-volt accident

SAFETY experts were yesterday investigating how a worker received a severe shock from a 20,000-volt power line while operating a cement wagon.
The man, whose name has not been released, was standing beside the lorry-mounted concrete pumping machine, using a hand-held remote control, when the accident happened, just outside Cockfield, near Barnard Castle, on Wednesday evening.
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