Health and Safety News

A worker of a waste management company from the Black Country was badly injured because of falling from a height when the poorly maintained guardrail broke.
The Walsall & Aldridge Magistrates Court ordered AB Waste Management Ltd to pay £12,000 as fine and £1,836 as costs for infringing Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of [...]

A construction company was convicted for the death of its 25-year-old employee based on a video that was recorded during the making of a TV documentary.
Regentford Ltd, a Hackney company, was asked to pay £250,000 as a fine in a case involving the breach of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. [...]

The response of the government to Rita Donaghy’s report into deaths of construction workers involves adopting as many as 23 recommendations made by the report. The response is an outcome of extensive discussions across government, employers, employees and trade unions.
According to Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rita Donaghy and [...]

Philip White, HSE’s Chief Inspector of Construction, has said on record that the lives of many workers are at risk on construction sites because of the negligence of its contractors who do not follow the health and safety rules stipulated by the government. According to him, most of the accidents that occur at such construction [...]

The authorities of the Scottish Railway were in for a shock recently when two workers succumbed to the injuries sustained due to a fall from a height. These workers were engaged in painting and blasting work on rail bridges when this tragic incident happened.
One accident was on the Forth Bridge where painter Robert McDonald fell [...]

The HSE board has decided to introduce a statutory tower crane register after a comprehensive public consultation, in which the opinions of trades unions, construction contractors and other stakeholders were taken into account. The consultation went on for three months, and the register is now awaiting ministerial approval. About 100 responses were received by HSE [...]

An accident involving an employee working at height prompted a cautionary notice by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to employers to ensure that adequate safety measures are provided to all those working at heights.
The accident was said to have occurred due to the lack of barriers to break the employee’s fall. The worker suffered [...]

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned scaffolding companies to ensure their machinery and equipment are safe for the employees. The warning followed prosecution of Linmar Scaffolding Ltd for breach of regulation 8 (b) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, after a scaffolding raised by the company collapsed at an industrial unit in [...]

Construction companies and property developers have been warned by the HSE to make sure they provide safe scaffolding, which is inspected regularly, after fines were issued to two companies for a scaffolding collapse in Birmingham.
The scaffolding, measuring between up to 50ft high and covering 100ft along the side of a building, collapsed on 13 [...]

The HSE have recently re-launched an initiative to prevent falls from vehicles in the workplace. The governing body feels strongly that such accidents, often needless and tragic in nature, result in unwarranted physical pain and injury as well as monetary loss to UK business of around £35 million each year.
 
The campaign is designed to [...]