News and Prosecutions
Bakery directors exposed staff to live wires and dust
11 June 2010
Two directors who put their bakery staff at risk from exposed electrical wires and irritant flour dust have been ordered to pay penalties totalling £6500.
Hotel blaze evacuation delayed by poor precautions
1 June 2010
A catalogue of fire safety breaches has cost a hotel and its general manager more than £40,000 in penalties after the building’s occupants were lucky to escape alive from a…
Pub landlord ignored fire brigade notices
2 March 2010
Sixteen breaches of the Fire Safety Order, including one of failing to comply with a Prohibition Notice, have cost former pub landlord Bhupinder Singh Mann £16,015 in penalties.
Disabled guard led to night shift crush injury
19 February 2010
A night shift worker who was trying to clear a blockage in a conveyer had his hand crushed after his employer allowed the machine to run without a protective guard.
Bakery finds WAH Regs are not waffle
18 February 2010
The HSE has prosecuted a family-run bakery for failing to comply with the Work at Height Regulations after an employee fell 1.2m off a structural steel girder.
Articles
Implications of new Food Hygiene Regulations
1 March 2006
The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006, which became law on 11 January, brought into force a package of EU measures to update previous food hygiene Directives. Mark Jones explains the…
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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