Summary: A look at the differing healthcare systems in the U.S. and U.K.
With healthcare constantly in the news these days, you may be wondering how the American system compares to that of other developed nations. The United Kingdom is a good starting point for comparison on account of the cultur…
UK Coal and global machinery supplier Joy Mining Ltd. were ordered to pay a total of £568,000 in fines and costs for serious breaches of safety that led to the death of West Yorkshire pit worker Ian Cameron.
On 18 July, UK Coal Ltd., of Harworth, Nottinghamshire, and Joy Mining Machinery …
A Barnsley plumber, who left a householder in danger after posing as a
qualified gas engineer and badly fitting a new boiler at their home,
has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Self-employed trader Mark Dixon of Royston, Barnsley, charged the homeowner £1,200 to carry out the work at t…
With summer in full swing and temperatures getting hotter every day, the reality of a workplace fire is more real than ever. To protect workers’ safety, it is important that employers and employees map out a fire safety plan.
When developing an emergency fire plan, it is critical to take ce…
A demolition firm and its director have been fined for endangering workers at a site in Lancing, West Sussex.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Rabbit Demolition and Excavation Ltd. and its director, Colin Bell, for not providing a safe means for working on a roof during the demo…
The unsafe removal of asbestos insulation boards at a large independent school in Dorset led to several people being exposed to asbestos fibres, Dorchester Crown Court heard.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Sherborne School and Peter Eldridge, the director of a company responsibl…
A Northumberland firm and two of its directors have been sentenced for safety failings after a teenage worker died following a fall from a barn roof.
Jamie Lee Duddin, 18, of Corbridge, and another Scotts of Whittington Ltd. employee were carrying out repairs to the roof lights of the barn …
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has been fined £83,600 for failing to arrange annual safety checks on gas appliances in tenanted accommodation.
The local authority is required by law to arrange annual checks by a Gas Safe registered engineer and keep and maintain gas safety reco…
A Lincolnshire builder has been fined after a spot check by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed his construction site was unsafe.
Andre Wilkin, trading as Hillen Projects, was the main contractor on a refurbishment scheme at Danesgate in Lincoln when an HSE inspector visited as par…
A vehicle engineering, design and testing firm has been fined after two employees were injured when they fell from a platform.
One of the workers broke his collar bone and needed to take six weeks off work after the incident at Mira Limited's Watling Street site near Nuneaton on 5 July last yea…
A Stockport engineering firm has been prosecuted after one of its
employees lost four fingers on his left hand when they were crushed in
machinery.
The 62-year-old from Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire had been using a power press to cut electrical components from a thin strip of steel when his ha…
A nursing home failed to ensure the safety of an elderly, blind, wheelchair-bound resident who died after falling down a flight of stairs.
Patrick Foale, 75, lived at the Redmount Nursing Home in Buckfastleigh, Devon, when the incident happened on 1 November 2010.
Mr. Foale, who was diabetic, …
A Cheshire firm which makes large steel containers has been sentenced after one of its employees lost part of a finger at a factory in Ellesmere Port.
The 55-year-old man was trying to remove debris from the chains under a rotating table when his hand was pulled into the mechanism.
His emp…
Three Wirral employees could have been killed if they had fallen while
carrying out work to a warehouse roof in Birkenhead, a court has heard.
The men were seen repairing the leaking roof, up to 16 metres above the ground, without harnesses or any suitable safety measures to stop them falling…
New official statistics published on 5 July show the number of workers fatally injured in Britain last year remains largely unchanged.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released provisional data for April 2011 to March 2012, which shows 173 workers were killed - down 2 from the previo…
A Walsall bacon curing company has been fined after an employee lost three fingers while operating machinery.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted John Cox Cold Stores and Distribution Services Ltd., trading as Midland Bacon Company, after Daniel Wilfred severed three fingers when h…
An illegal gas fitter has been prosecuted for endangering lives by
undertaking potentially lethal work at a property in Colchester.
Kevin Cook, 55, trading as Team Electric, installed a gas fire at a house in Rowhedge, Colchester, in August 2010, although he was not registered to undertake ga…
An Essex granite manufacturer has been sentenced for safety failings
after a worker was crushed to death by stone slabs weighing three
tonnes.
Martin Rice, 57, was unloading a delivery of manufactured stone and placing it on storage A-frames in a warehouse when the incident occurred at The …
A North Yorkshire firm has been fined after a worker became trapped by the head and neck in a packaging machine at its factory in Whitley Bridge, near Selby.
Cromar Building Products Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for safety failings after it investigated the inc…
Bassetlaw District Council has been fined after a member of the public was killed by a reversing bin lorry.
Derrick Baines, 76, of Mellish Road, Langold, Nottinghamshire, was returning home from the shops on his mobility scooter when he was struck by the lorry on 10 July 2008.
On 3 July, the H…