Stress is still the biggest workplace worry
New TUC research finds that stress is still the biggest health problem facing most employers. Sixty-one per cent of union safety representatives questioned for the TUC's 2006 biennial safety…
1 Dec 2006

Roof fall fine
A £2,000 fine plus £8,400 costs have been handed down to timber firm Timbmet Rochdale after an employee was fatally injured falling 10m through a rooflight. Logistics manager David Carter…
1 Dec 2006

European Week 2006
This year's European Week for Safety and Health at Work, which focuses on the occupational safety and health of young people, will run from 23-27 October. The HSE is working…
1 Nov 2006

Back to backs
The Better Backs campaign, launched by the HSE last year, returns this month with workplace inspections, media advertising and awareness-raising events.
1 Nov 2006

Director fined for forklift fatality
A fatal accident in which a yard manager was run over by a fork-lift truck with no handbrake has ended with the conviction of both her boss and his company.…
1 Nov 2006

Forklift fine
A Leicester builder's merchant has landed a £44,000 fine and £4,000 costs after its failure to segregate pedestrians and vehicles at its premises.
1 Nov 2006

ECJ raps government over rest breaks guidance
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the UK government was breaking the law by not obliging employers to safeguard workers' legal rest breaks.
1 Nov 2006

Ridiculous EC case threatens UK safety law
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has warned that a European Commission court case against the UK government could "turn the health and safety clock back 40 years".
1 Nov 2006

Gold-plating takes shine off EU safety Directives
European health and safety directives are imposing unnecessary costs on small businesses because the UK is implementing them too rigorously, according to new research from the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC)…
1 Nov 2006

HSE makes risk a matter of principle
THE HSE has launched a set of "sensible risk management" principles designed to help businesses navigate a path between unsafe practices and excessive risk aversion. The principles (available at www.hse.gov.ukrisksensible.htm)…
1 Oct 2006

HSC "not complacent" as fatal injuries fall
Fatal injuries to workers fell to their lowest ever level last year according to the Health and Safety Commission's (HSC) latest statistics, published last month.
1 Oct 2006

Judges soft on safety offenders, argues Callaghan
The chair of the Health and Safety Commission (HSC), Bill Callaghan, has called for the courts to impose tougher fines for health and safety offences.
1 Oct 2006

HSE powers up
The HSE will take over sole responsibility for safety regulation in the electricity transmission and distribution sector after a transfer of part of the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI)…
1 Oct 2006

Corporate killing bill starts its journey
The government has finally introduced its much-anticipated Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill into parliament. Published on 21 July, the bill should make it easier to prosecute organisations where their…
1 Aug 2006

£817k bullying award
The High Court has awarded a former City worker who was bullied by her colleagues £817,000 in damages.
1 Aug 2006