All blog posts tagged with health and safety

Devon firm fined for worker's fall from forklift

Posted 03-05-2012

A North Devon farming business has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker fractured his skull falling from the prong of a forklift truck at an animal feed mill.

Richard Robinson, 64, from Pyworthy, near Holsworthy, was attempting to crush recycled material when the fall occurred a…

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Tagged as head injury, work at height, fall from height, forklift, prosecution, fine, devon, hse, hswa, safety and health, and health and safety

Case Law page updated

Posted 27-03-2012

The HealthSafetyNews.co.uk Case Law page has been updated with additional legal precedent.

The page now covers the following topics:

  • Duty of Care
  • 'Reasonably Practicable'
  • Due Diligence
  • Occupiers' Liability to Trespassers
  • Personal Liability of Executives
  • Stress
  • Suitability of Flooring

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Tagged as law, legislation, case law, legal precedent, duty of care, resonably practicable, due diligence, liability, health and safety, and safety and health

Most popular health and safety news articles and pages

Posted 13-03-2012

The ten most popular articles or pages on HealthSafetyNews.co.uk over the last 30 days have been:

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Tagged as health, safety, news, website, occupational safety, and health and safety

EU-OSHA announces winners of 2011 photo competition

Posted 07-12-2011

The three best photographs have been selected by the international jury. Krzysztof Maksymowicz of Poland was awarded the first prize for his photograph 'dress maker'. The competition called for entries on the theme of 'safety and health in the workplace', with a special focus on risk prevention. To …

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Tagged as photograph, photo, picture, safety, health and safety, competition, and eu-osha

Free health and safety guidance

Posted 01-08-2011

Don't forget to check out the free guidance available on the Health and Safety News home page.

There is a section in the right-hand column containing many useful guidance documents which can be downloaded free of charge.

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Tagged as guidance, health and safety, health, safety, tips, and hsg

The Fun Police

Posted 28-05-2011

I’ve just left the BBC Television Centre where I watched the filming of the pilot episode of Matt Morgan’s “The Fun Police” – a Channel 4 sitcom based in the Health and Safety Department of Brightsea Borough Council. The show stars Flight of The Concords’ Rhys Darby along with Jack Doolan (Cemetery …

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Tagged as bbc, channel 4, television, health and safety, sitcom, vic reeves, rhys darby, and matt morgan

High Wycombe landlord prosecuted for putting tenants' lives at risk

Posted 25-05-2011

A landlord has been fined after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found he failed to ensure gas fittings, including a wall mounted boiler, at a property he rented out, were safe.

The HSE reports that Mr Asif Azam of Whitelands Road, High Wycombe, plead guilty at Aylesbury …

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Tagged as fine, prosecution, gas, gas safety, and health and safety

First Aid Resources

Posted 20-05-2011

The health and safety links page has been updated. One of the new additions is a link to some useful First Aid Fact Sheets available on the Aid Training website.

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Tagged as first aid, guidance, information, health and safety, first aid at work, and emergency first aid

Who visits HealthSafetyNews.co.uk?

Posted 17-05-2011

Over the last two months, visitors to HealthSafetyNews.co.uk have come from the following countries:

68% United Kingdom

20% United States of America

2% Germany

2% India

The final 8% is made up of the following countries: Trinidad and Tobago, Singapore, Netherlands, Japan, Nigeria, Mauritius and Hong…

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Tagged as health and safety, visitors, and countries

Corporate manslaughter appeal refused

Posted 13-05-2011

Safety and Health Practitioner (SHP) reports that the Court of Appeal has refused an application to appeal from Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings which was convicted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, following the death of Alex Wright.

Previous related news: Cotswold G…

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Tagged as corporate manslaughter, health and safety, fatality, and appeal

Changes to the HSE reporting system

Posted 10-05-2011

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports that, from September this year, the majority of work-related injuries and incidents reportable under RIDDOR will have to be notified to the HSE via its website (fatal and major incidents and injuries will still be reportable by 'phone).

In a further step…

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Posted in H&S News
Tagged as hse, health and safety, riddor, infoline, guidance, help, and information

Australian bosses go undercover for safety truth

Posted 09-05-2011

As part of  WorkSafe Victoria's 'The Skeleton Project', three CEOs spent a day with their workers, under the cover of a workplace safety researcher, to find out more about musculoskeletal injuries.

Read more about The Skeleton Project and find out how it gave these CEOs a unique insight into the i…

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Tagged as health and safety, australia, musculoskeletal, and injury

Health and Safety Case Law

Posted 06-05-2011

The case law page of www.healthsafetynews.co.uk has been updated.

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Posted in Site Update
Tagged as case law, legal precedent, health and safety, safety, and occupational safety

Jobs - The Royal British Legion

Posted 04-05-2011

The Royal British Legion is looking to recruit three Regional Health and Safety Advisors. See the jobs page for further details.

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Tagged as the royal british legion, safety advisor, health and safety, career, job, work, and employment

Health and Safety News is now on Twitter

Posted 03-05-2011

HealthSafetyNews.co.uk is now on Twitter.

To keep up-to-date with the site, you can now follow it at http://twitter.com/HealthSafety

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Tagged as health, safety, health and safety, safety and health, occupational safety, and www.healthsafetynews.co.uk

Workplace health and safety – how to make a complaint

Posted 03-05-2011

If anyone considers that their employer (or someone else’s) work activity is putting their safety at risk or damaging their health, then concerns should be raised with that employer or person. If no improvement is made and their safety or health continues to be at risk, then this can be reported to…

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Tagged as hse, health and safety, local authority, health, and risk

Quarterly release of fatal injuries - first nine months of 2010/11

Posted 03-05-2011

Published at the end of March, the quarterly fatal injury figures for the period April to December 2010 provide emerging details of the count of workplace fatal injuries in 2010/11:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatalquarterly.htm?ebul=stats/apr-11&cr=02

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Tagged as hse, statistics, fatal injury figures, fatality, and health and safety

National Statistics 2009/10

Posted 03-05-2011

The following statistics are, or will shortly be, available for the period of 2009/10:

Blood lead exposure: 

The latest annual data based on HSE's exposure to lead study. The update includes the working population in the lead industry, exposure by lead industrial classification and data on the num…

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Tagged as hse, statistics, national statistics, health and safety, lead, work related illness, swi, and labour force survey

The Royal Wedding and Health and Safety

Posted 30-04-2011

During and following the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) many communities held street parties to celebrate

To try and ensure that health and safety was not used as an excuse for preventing such celebrations, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) …

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Tagged as prince william, kate middleton, catherine middleton, duke of cambridge, duchess of cambridge, street party, hse, health and safety, and royal wedding

Four Reasons, Eight Lessons - Reluctance to Report May Not Be Caused By Fear

Posted 12-04-2011

By Phil La Duke

Conventional wisdom holds that people won’t report near misses because they fear repercussions associated with admitting that they screwed up, but in most cases, conventional wisdom is wrong.

Near misses — incidents where no one was seriously injured but COULD have been — provide u…

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Tagged as near miss, accident reporting, safety and health, health and safety, blame, and culture
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