News and Prosecutions
Builder ignored advice over unsafe roof working
10 March 2010
A builder has been fined £1500 after an HSE inspector saw two men working on a pub roof without proper safety equipment.
Two tonnes of falling metal crushed worker
9 March 2010
An incident in which over two tonnes of falling metal crushed an employee has landed a lorry-trailer manufacturer with penalties of more than £33,000 after it failed to provide proper…
Manufacturer overlooked drill entanglement risks
5 March 2010
A manufacturing firm that failed to assess and control the long-established risks from a rotating radial arm drill has been fined £40,000 after an agency worker seriously injured his arm.
Partially deaf council worker killed by reversing tipper
1 March 2010
Workplace transport failures have landed Rotherham Council and its contractor with fines totalling £105,000 after a reversing truck knocked down and killed a partially deaf council employee during road surfacing…
Carillion fined £185,000 after employee struck by truck
15 February 2010
Traffic management failures that led to a truck running over a worker on a building site have cost major construction contractor Carillion £194,821.
Articles
Hazardous environments: close to the wind
10 February 2010
The UK government has committed to generating 30% of electricity using renewables by 2020, but maintaining wind turbines is a hazardous business, writes Dave Merchant.
Home cooking: designing a health and safety system
9 February 2010
Duncan Spencer argues practitioners should be more confident in serving up safety systems tailored to their organisations.
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.
Only human
1 May 2009
Early in the morning of 22 May 2006, a senior lifeguard at a Total Fitness gym in the Wirral mistakenly added chlorine granules to an acid tank rather than the…
The greatest shows on earth
1 May 2009
This season, his risk assessments ranged from tumblers and contortionists to the high wire and sword throwing. But while most health and safety professionals would blanch at the prospect, for…
What do you think?
- Terms and Conditions
- Privacy Policy
- Advertise with us
- Reprint and Syndication
- © Lexis Nexis. All Rights Reserved.
- Partner sites: LexisNexis
- Magazines and Journals
- Conferences and Training
- Supplier Directory
- Taxation Jobs