News and Prosecutions
Royal Mail fined £90,000 over distribution centre death
11 March 2010
Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 after it admitted failing to ensure the safety of an employee run over by a reversing heavy goods vehicle (HGV) at its Heathrow worldwide…
22kg box fell on toddler
18 January 2010
Discount retailer TJ Morris, trading as Home Bargains, has been fined after a two-year-old was hit by a 22kg box at one of its stores.
Porter fell from moving delivery lorry
22 December 2009
A courier company which was aware that loading dock workers could be left in the back of delivery vehicles as they drove off faces a £40,000 penalty after an employee…
National Tyre Services paid lip service to training
1 December 2009
Magistrates have criticised fast-fit tyre firm National Tyre Services for paying only lip service to health and safety training.
EAT swallows penalty for forklift fall
27 November 2009
Sandwich retailer EAT has been convicted under the Work at Height Regulations following a forklift accident at its warehouse in which a worker fell and suffered brain swelling and broken…
Articles
Is your PPE ethical?
16 October 2008
Outing high street clothing companies for the sweatshop practices of their suppliers is a staple of investigative media reporting in all the Western nations. But do you know what conditions…
Getting safety right on a multi-occupancy site
7 March 2008
In a multi-occupancy workplace - whether it's a shopping mall, an industrial centre, an office block or a research facility - clarity and cooperation are key.
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…
Asda pays
22 January 2008
Supermarket chain Asda has been fined £225,000 plus costs after admitting safety failures over the death of a customer in a store car park. Kenneth Farr was killed when a…
Dealing with dust extraction
1 December 2007
Many buyers of dust and fume extraction equipment only consult the manufacturer after the machinery it will operate on has already been installed. Consulting the experts at this late stage…
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