Extra checks on the safety of fairground and theme park rides will take place this summer after a string of incidents. Britain’s workplace regulator the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will carry out 100 inspections of various rides following incidents in London, Barrow, Cardiff, Hull and Barnsley. The HSE inspection campaign looks to promote the...
A joinery firm in South East London has been fined £20,000 for failing to control its employees’ exposure to wood dust. The company was inspected in May 2022 as part of a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign targeting woodworking businesses due to the significant health risks associated with exposure to wood dust, including the risk...
As we continue to live through a global health crisis and face ongoing risks in the world of work, we must continue to move toward building a strong safety and health culture at all levels. The annual World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April promotes the prevention of occupational accidents and...
Allergy Awareness Week 2023 takes place from the 24th of April until the 28h of April. Throughout the week there are lots of fundraising events that take place. An allergy is a reaction your body has to a particular food or substance. Whilst in most people these substances pose no problem, for allergic individuals their immune system identifies them...
A civil engineering contractor has been fined £800,000 for safety breaches after a 10-year-old boy died after falling down a manhole on a building site in Glasgow. The ten-year-old boy went out to play with his friends and got onto the construction site where he was able to enter a manhole within which, he fell. ...
The worker was trying to fix a problem that happened as he and colleagues were using a metal grab to unload Spantherm, a concrete building product, from some trailers. The metal grab shouldn’t have been in use. His head became trapped in the jaws of the grab after a rope connected to the locking lever...
The man was working when the incident occurred at the firm’s Birmingham site on 8 May 2018. He had been walking across a pedestrian crossing at the site when a forklift truck, being driven by another worker, collided with him, crushing his leg and ankle. The driver did not slow down while approaching the pedestrian...
A Derbyshire property owner has been given a community order after a father-of-two sustained life changing injuries when a wall collapsed on top of him during a barn conversion. The property owner failed to have a structural assessment of the outbuildings carried out as part of his planning for the project at his home in Woodhouses. The...
Violence and aggression at work is any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work.’ It is important to remember that this can include: verbal abuse or threats, including face to face, online and via telephone physical attacks This might include violence from members of the public,...
