At one time, what you could and couldn’t lift whilst operating in a workplace environment was down to what you could physically manage.
People love the phrase ‘can-do attitude’, but thankfully that doesn’t apply anymore when it comes to manual handling.
Whilst there are no legal limits…
A South Yorkshire firm has been ordered to pay £142,000 in fines and
costs for serious safety breaches after a worker died when he was
crushed by a one and a half tonne steel girder.
Steelworker John Mott, 47, who had worked in the steel industry since leaving school, received fatal injuries…
The death of a worker crushed under a 31-tonne concrete beam has led to two firms being fined a total of £130,000, plus costs.
Gary Drinkald, 43, from Aylesbury, was crushed after the concrete beam taken from the bridge fell from the back of a low-loader lorry.
Micor, the main contractor, admitted…
Konecranes UK Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching reg.8(1)(c) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998. It was fined £8000 and ordered to pay costs of £7529.
The company had been contracted to move an overhead runway from one end of a warehouse to the other. The workers attache…