News and Prosecutions
Complacent NHS Trust fined over legionella
9 October 2009
The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust must pay nearly £48,000 in fines and costs after it allowed unsafe levels of legionella bacteria to multiply in its water system.
HM Prison Service censured over Legionnaire's case
16 June 2009
HM Prison Service has accepted a Crown censure after an inmate at Nottingham Prison contracted Legionnaire's disease.
Failures at council made Barrow outbreak possible
1 June 2007
Barrow Borough Council's failure to carry out Legionella risk assessments and to appoint a "responsible person" to monitor its air-conditioning system, combined with badly drafted and managed contracts and a…
HSE report into Barrow-in-Furness legionnaire's outbreak
1 May 2007
Inoperative chillers, cooling towers and fans; biocide supplies left to run out; and a lack of system checks, all contributed to the UK's largest outbreak of legionnaire's disease.
DWP commissions health review
1 May 2007
The Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health have commissioned a detailed review of the health of the UK's working population.
Articles
If the mask fits
9 August 2007
Helen Collins takes a deep breath and explains the ins and outs of face fit testing for RPE.
NEBOSH National Diploma: Biological agents
2 May 2007
Following the recent case in Barrow, Cumbria, which was the culmination of an outbreak of Legionella bacteria at the town's main theatre and arts venue that caused the deaths of…
Five steps debate
Duncan Spencer's recent article in HSW questioning the utility of the HSE's five steps to risk assessment method has prompted a discussion between Spencer and consultant John Anderson.
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