A major pipeline transportation company has been fined £2.3million for safety breaches after its employees were exposed to risk of serious injury and even death while working on a leaking pipeline containing petrol under pressure. Workers were excavating a suspected pipeline leak in the woodland adjacent to the B1398 and M180 near Holme, North Lincolnshire,...
Vehicles play a vital role in farm work but incidents involving vehicles are the number one cause of deaths and serious injuries on British farms. Incidents involving moving vehicles have been responsible for 30 per cent of all fatalities on farms over the past five years, that’s 48 lives lost in incidents that have destroyed...
An asbestos removal company has been convicted and its director given a prison sentence after failing to ensure the safe removal of asbestos. The company advertised as a licensed asbestos removal company and removed licensable material from domestic properties throughout Great Britain. An investigation carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that...
A manufacturing company has been fined after an employee lost parts of two fingers when his hand got caught in a machine producing face masks. The machine operator was working a night shift at the company’s site when they spotted a problem with one of the firm’s HX machines, the man attempted to adjust the...
A farmer has been fined £8k after a teenage worker suffered serious head injuries when a six-tonne dumper he was driving overturned. The 19-year-old and his friend, who was just 16, had been paid to move material as part of improvement works at the farm. However, the farmer had failed to ask either for their...
Those responsible for the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England have six months from April to register with the new Building Safety Regulator. The Building Safety Regulator was established to protect high-rise residents from unsafe building practices in England in response to the Grenfell Tower fire. Under the Building Safety Act, high-rise residential buildings...
According to the latest HSE statistics, working from height was the most frequent cause of fatal accidents to workers in 2017, accounting for 28% of the total. There were also 43,000 non-fatal accidents involving falls from height across all industries. Over 60% of deaths during work at height involve falls from ladders, scaffolds, working platforms and roof...
Leading voices in motor vehicle repair have teamed up with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to warn of the dangers of working under vehicles without proper equipment. Figures recorded by HSE in the five years up to March 2022 show that 13 workers in the motor vehicle repair industry were killed when work took...
If you are responsible for a construction site, do you have the correct facilities accessible to your employees and sub contractors? A construction company and its director have been fined after they failed to provide suitable welfare facilities at a construction site in North London. The building firm was in charge of the site where...
