News and Prosecutions
HSE issues guidance for firefighters on balancing duties with risk
12 March 2010
A new policy statement from the HSE aims to clarify how firefighters can balance health and safety requirements with their operational duties.
Rail regulator raises Network Rail maintenance fears
5 March 2010
An Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) review of Network Rail’s maintenance restructuring plans has raised significant concerns over managers’ safety critical working hours, the classification of vital safety roles, and…
Manager’s stress costs MoJ £51,000
17 February 2010
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) prison service has paid £51,000 to a former manager in an out-of-court settlement after he was forced to leave his job because of workplace bullying.
Council worker killed by digger driven against one-way system
12 February 2010
The death of a council employee run over by a wheeled shovel loader has cost Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council and the vehicle’s driver £51,250 in penalties.
Disused boiler explosion killed pensioner
8 December 2009
An explosion that killed a pensioner has cost Severn Vale Housing Society and its contract plumber £66,500.
Articles
A good man in a storm
8 July 2009
Louis Wustemann learns about managing crises from the man who led the local responses to the Buncefield explosion, and the Hatfield and Potters Bar rail crashes.
What lies beneath
10 November 2008
Shelley Atkinson-Frost explains how to locate buried services safely.
In the line of fire: protecting emergency workers
9 June 2008
By definition, emergency workers often face danger at work. But as they go about the daily business of saving lives and protecting people, they now face an extra set of…
Leeds Hospitals' burning issue
6 March 2008
"The main thing about the new Order," observes Peter Aldridge, fire safety manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, "is that the fire service does now have quite extensive powers…
When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing
27 February 2008
Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, little has changed from the abject situation that we reported two years…
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