Health and Safety News

In an unfortunate incident, a 75-year old man accidentally drove off a car park’s unprotected edge and plunged into the sea below. The car park was located on a pier. Argyll and Bute Council has been fined £20,000 for failing to conduct a proper risk assessment and installing protective barriers.
On September 17, 2007, Duncan [...]

Plastics manufacturer TS(UK) Ltd has been slapped with a fine of £140,000 following an accident where one of its employees was crushed to death after a wooden pallet weighing more than one tonne fell on him.
The incident took place at Middleton’s Stakehill Industrial Estate on July 15’ 05. The company was prosecuted by [...]

In a recent inspection, the Health and Safety Executive found that many Scottish farms were using All Terrain Vehicles in an unsafe manner. These ATVs have been the cause of many accidents in the past and have even caused some fatalities in Scotland. It is believed that on an average, over 1000 persons are injured [...]

All over the North East construction work has been put on hold after an intense inspection drive was started to put a stop on dangerous procedures on work sites.
The inspection drive started by the Health and Safety Executive was aimed at increasing levels of safety, focussing on roofing and refurbishment work. Sites from Teesside to [...]

A freight company in Leeds was recently prosecuted by the HSE, when a man working at the site of the company got killed while getting cargo off a container.
With up to £100,000 costs and £250,000 in fines to pay, Roadways Container Logistics Limited has surely landed itself in trouble. The court at Leeds found that [...]

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 [...]

A huge fine had been imposed on Royal Mail following the death of an employee in 2006 because of an accident.
Colin Smith, a 57-year old worker of Royal Mail, employed as a yard shunter, was removing the lock from a trailer that was parked in the loading bay of the Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC) [...]

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 [...]