News and Prosecutions
Accident reporting law changes take effect
06 April 2012
The new reporting requirements for workplace accidents came into force today, extending the period an employee must be off work after an accident before their employer has to notify the…
Print co ignored near misses
28 March 2012
One of the UK’s largest printing firms has been made to pay almost £200,000 after a maintenance engineer was crushed to death while repairing a machine.
RIDDOR changes on track for April
06 February 2012
The government has published the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences (Amendment) Regulations 2012.
Loader’s freight fall brings ‘pocket money’ fine
17 January 2012
A logistics multinational has been ordered to pay more than £48,000 after a worker suffered back injuries when he fell out of a delivery vehicle.
Developer’s shortcuts led to fatal fall
16 January 2012
A site manager has been prosecuted by the HSE after a labourer died following a five-metre fall from a roof.
Articles
The RIDDOR extension: are the changes enough?
07 October 2011
Lucie Ponting finds there are those who think the absence threshold extension is a distraction from the need for a bigger overhaul.
A matter of protocol
07 October 2011
Kevin Elliott hopes the HSE will press charges before inquests now the world-related dealth protocol allows it to go first.
Behind the line: accident data
01 April 2011
In the second of his features on interpreting statistics such as accident data, Dave Merchant looks at extrapolating trend information.
In the kingdom of the double blind
04 February 2011
Gathering meaningful risk and accident data can be tricky. Dave Merchant talks us through the pitfalls.
Private correspondence
06 November 2010
Kevin Elliott and Paul Verrico set out the rules for legally privileged documents after an accident.
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