Health and Safety News

The law on smoking in public carriages and vehicles used for work is in the news with the fining of a cab driver for smoking in his cab.
The hackney carriage driver, Paul Dalgleish was found smoking in his carriage on two prior occasions and let off with a warning. However, an enforcement officer apprehended [...]

The new mission of the Government is to reduce the number of smokers to one in every ten people from the current one in five by 2020. It is considering various strategies to achieve this goal.
The smoke-free rules were enacted three years back and they categorised many places and vehicles as smoke-free areas. In these [...]

Although his Higher Walton based company was issued a warning for breaching anti-smoking laws in the past, Martin Lenehan, Operations Director at Metric Scaffolding UK Ltd was caught red-handed, smoking on his desk. He was caught and prosecuted by South Ribble Borough Council in January.
When caught, Lenehan refused to pay the £50 fixed penalty and [...]