News and Prosecutions
Lack of edge protection led to drowning
18 August 2010
A council has been fined £20,000 after a man drowned when his car fell over the unprotected edge of a pier car park and into the sea.
Untrained worker left brain damaged by roof fall
9 August 2010
A six metre roof fall that left a worker permanently brain-damaged has cost two brothers a total of £25,000 in penalties.
Rotary valve severed miller's arm
9 August 2010
A cereal mill has been fined £16,750 after an employee’s arm was ripped off when it became entangled in a rotating valve.
Flapjack mixer severed fingers at McVities
2 August 2010
McVities manufacturer United Biscuits (UK) has been ordered to pay almost £13,000 after a mixing machine sliced off a worker’s fingers at its cake making factory in Halifax.
£10,000 fine follows power press amputation
21 July 2010
A specialist food packaging firm has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 in fines and costs after a worker lost three fingers when she caught her right hand in…
Articles
Control order
12 August 2010
Duncan Abbott offers a reminder that engineering controls should always come before behavioural ones.
Risk assessment: unsteady steps?
9 July 2010
Duncan Spencer questions the efficacy of the HSE’s recommended risk assessment technique.
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.
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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