Totalscaff (GB) Ltd. has been fined after handing over unsecured scaffolding to a client, putting builders at risk.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector visited a site at Claremont, Hastings, on 20 April 2010 where building repairs and external work were being carried out.
The inspector not…
Meningitis Awareness Week (19-25th September) sees the launch of an online video to support the Meningitis Research Foundation's (MRF) Counting the Cost of Meningitis campaign and builds support for vaccination against meningitis and septicaemia.
The shocking lifelong costs of surviving meningitis …
A toddler was injured when part of a streetlight was dropped by a workman in Hackney as she was passing underneath, a court has heard.
One-year-old Taahyra Kasham was being pushed along a London street in her pram by her mother, when a reflector from a streetlight hit her on the head.
Street ligh…
A Cardiff construction site manager has been fined after failing to comply with two safety orders issued to protect workers from injury.
Mr Haider Zaman was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for ignoring two Improvement Notices served while he was refurbishing two residential pr…
A worker sustained serious burns in an electrical explosion after a North London company failed to carry out basic Health and Safety checks.
On the 30th April 2010, the injured man was working on a construction site at Leonard Street, Islington, when the electrical blast occurred. City of London …
A Cupar farming partnership has been fined £112,500 after a worker was killed when he was crushed between the rollers of a potato harvester.
Keith Wannan, 34, from Cupar, died as he was replacing rubber sleeves on the rollers of a potato harvester to prepare it for the new harvesting season.
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A five year-old boy has died in a playground accident at a school in south-west London.
It is currently thought the boy fell from a climbing frame during lunchtime but there are no further details. Police are investigating and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.
The UK’s nuclear power stations have all started ‘stress tests’ as part of an agreement to test all such facilities across Europe, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) confirms today.
Following the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan, every nuclear power generating country in Europe…
Stakapal Ltd. has been fined after a man was pulled into unguarded rotating parts of a machine.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted storage equipment manufacturer Stakapal Ltd following the incident on 20 December 2010, when employee Adrian Taylor, 41, was working on a multi-roll formi…
A fairground attendant has been in court after a teenage girl plunged head-first onto concrete when a restraint bar opened on the ride she was on at a York carnival.
The 13-year-old girl escaped serious injury despite falling around four metres from the 'Cliffhanger Miami Trip' ride as her friends w…
Newport City Council has been ordered to pay over £160,000 after a disabled man died when he was trapped in a ceiling track hoist installed in his home.
Michael Powell, 53, suffocated when he attempted to hoist himself over his bed, on or around the evening of 20 January 2008, and was unable to cal…
Alexander Dennis Ltd. has been fined after a worker was injured by a bus floor platform which slipped while being lifted into position.
Samuel Murray, 56, from Plains, North Lanarkshire was working in the welding bays of bus body manufacturing firm, Alexander Dennis Ltd, in Falkirk on 16 September 2…
Formac Electronics Ltd. has been fined after a builder was exposed to high levels of a type of asbestos linked to cancer.
Jonathan Arnold, 49, of Castle Cary was fitting pipework for a new central heating system at Oxford House, in Combe Down, Bath when he was exposed to high levels of blue asbes…
First Uranium has reported that an accident at its Ezulwini gold mine killed a drill operator. It is the fourth death at the South African mine in the last twelve months.
The drill operator was killed by a collapse in the mine. In August, a man was killed in another accident, which is under interna…
Addressing work-related stress doesn't have to cost the earth; often it's about identifying practical solutions after assessing the possible causes.
Based on the 6 risk factors included in the Management Standards, this document allows you to check if you're doing enough to address the causes of …
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has urged employers to do more to reduce the worrying number of work-related road traffic accidents (RTA).
IOSH made the call after research it commissioned with TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) revealed that many companies are spending mon…
Lives are being put at risk because people are avoiding learning first aid for fear of getting it wrong, a leading charity warns today.
A British Red Cross poll of more than 2,000 adults across the UK found that nearly two-thirds of respondents thought people avoid learning first aid because of the …
This consultation sets out HSE's proposals to introduce revised Control of Asbestos Regulations to implement the changes required to comply with the European Commission's reasoned opinion on the UK Government's transposition of Directive 83/477/EEC as amended by 2003/18/EC on the protection of worke…
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) will launch OiRA at the XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in Istanbul between 11 and 15 September 2011.
The OiRA project is a multinational, collaborative endeavour to develop easy-to-use and cost-free web tools aimed at mic…