News and Prosecutions
£13k penalty for fourth guarding case in a week
21 July 2010
In the fourth HSE prosecution in a week involving machine guarding lapses, a European frozen vegetables supplier has been fined £10,000 after an operator lost a finger when his hand…
Piling chopped off Morgan Est worker's foot
28 June 2010
Construction giant Morgan Est has been fined for the second time in just three months for safety breaches that led to workers suffering amputation injuries.
Open hatch exposes two firms to fines
23 June 2010
A factory worker severed three fingers and a thumb on the exposed rotating blade of a mixing machine because the cleaning hatch was open and the emergency cut-out was not…
Council fined after unstable MEWP killed electrician
21 June 2010
East Ayrshire Council has been fined £56,000 after an electrician plunged six metres from a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP) that toppled over and landed on him.
NHS handed £90,000 penalty for patient’s death
10 June 2010
The death of a disabled man who suffocated after his head got stuck underneath the bottom rail of his hospital bed has led to a £50,000 fine for an NHS…
Articles
Multiplication game
10 March 2010
Tim Marsh argues that in creating a sustainable safety culture, two out of three is bad.
British Sugar gets personal
10 March 2010
Lucie Ponting reports on British Sugar’s half-yearly safety performance discussions designed to make safety issues “personal” for everyone in the company.
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.
Site specifics: young workers
11 August 2009
Bridget Leathley presents some of the best sites on the web for information on safeguarding young people in the workplace.
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…
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