RIDDOR, or the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, is a set of regulations in the United Kingdom that determine how employers must record and report incidents in the workplace and how to respond to them. The regulations were first introduced in 1995 (coming int…
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HSE Workplace Fatalities – 2020/21
Over the past 18 months or so, the world’s focus has been on the coronavirus pandemic and how to keep everyone safe. Many businesses have paused or ceased operations during this time with workers furloughed or working from home.
But despite the obvious reduction in numbers of people at work, we…
Construction company fined half a million pounds for fatal demolition work
McGee Group Limited was fined £500,000 with £66,236.22 in costs for a breach of Regulation 22(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, following the death of 33-year-old labourer Dainius Rupsys in April 2014.
Southwark Crown Court heard that Mr Rupsys from Lithuania w…
ABCs Can Help Your First Aid Training
Coming across someone who has had an accident – or indeed being involved in or witnessing such – can be daunting. Thinking about it now, you may believe that you would panic; in fact, most people -when faced with such a situation – react with a calmness that may even surprise them, as your first ins…
How to protect yourself after a personal injury as a result of an accident
Every year in the UK more than 3 million people are seriously injured in accidents that occur in their homes, at their places of employment, in their cars or outdoors. If the accident is the fault of someone else, then the victim has the right to be compensated.
Personal Injury law is complex…
Building a safety net: Protecting the workplace with effective project management
Construction sites are considered high-risk environments. Pay a visit to one and you will immediately see why — with large teams of people simultaneously working on various aspects of the project, all kinds of tools and heavy machinery involved and in motion, and the different areas of the site itse…
Does what it says on the tin – The importance of health and safety labels
Whether you’re a small start-up business or you’re an established company with well over 100 employees, having an established set of health and safety procedures and protocols is always essential. It is likely that you have a wide range of different procedures in the event anything goes wrong within…
Reducing accidents at work - it’s easier than it may seem!
In the past year alone (2014/15), approximately 1.2 million people suffered from a work related disease. To put it into perspective, that’s approximately 1 in 60 people. This is also equivalent to 27.3 million working days being lost because of work-related illnesses and injuries, or over £14 billio…
Major Workplace Disasters
Research indicates that since the Introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974, fatal injuries to employees have fallen by 87%, and reported non-fatal injuries have fallen by 77%.
However, recent figure provide evidence that 153 workers have a work-related accident every 53 seconds i…
Male workers 20 times more likely than females to die at work
According to a recent data analysis from health and safety consultants Arinite, between the years of 2009 and 2014 male workers were more than 20 times as likely as females to suffer a fatality whilst at work.
In 2013/14 alone, 85 male workers died on the job compared to just four women. Of those…
Hampshire aircraft maintenance company fined after workers injured in falls
ATC (Lasham) Ltd. (a Hampshire-based aircraft maintenance company) has been sentenced for safety failures after three workers were injured in separate falls at its airfield in Lasham – two in the same month.
The company was fined a total of £35,000 and ordered to pay £32,430 in costs after admi…
‘tis the season to be fire-ready
As we all know, Christmas is a time for jollities and japes, overindulging in mulled wine and of course, one too many mince pies. For me, the most important part of the holiday season is taking the time to relax and step back from the trials and tribulations of everyday life.
Although Christmas is …
Faulty rope led to amputation for outdoors instructor
A Southampton firm has been prosecuted after an outdoors activity instructor was left permanently disabled when he used a defective rope for a simulated parachute landing.
Joshua Senior, 25, plunged some nine metres to the ground at the Rock (UK) adventure centre in Carroty Wood, near Tonbridge, …
Paper company fined for forklift crush accident
A Swanley firm has been prosecuted after a worker at its warehouse was injured after being crushed between a forklift truck and a pallet of paper goods.
The Swan Mill Paper Company Ltd. appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court (7 May) and admitted safety failings that led to its employee, a l…
Guarding failures left pensioner with life-threatening injuries at wood yard
A 73-year-old worker at a Norfolk wood yard was left with life-threatening and life-changing injuries that could have been prevented had the log splitter he was using been better configured and guarded, a court has heard.
Basil Fryett, of Great Massingham, King's Lynn, has spent almost six months i…
The story of Honda and health and safety
Guest post by: Ingunn Bjøru
An employee, Cesar Santos, literally gave his bosses two fingers recently at Honda in Swindon, but he probably didn’t enjoy the experience as much as he may have hoped. Whilst using an emery cloth to clean some equipment, his bosses were pressing him to complete the ta…
Workplace injuries cause 27 million working day loss in 2011/2012
Workplace injury and work-related illness led to the loss of 27 million working days in 2011/2012, new figures have revealed. According to statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) towards the end of 2012, 173 people were killed while at work, and 111,000 other injuries suffered …
Digger driver trapped under machine by falling wall
A digger driver has been hurt at the site of a construction project in Plymouth, Devon.
Emergency services at currently at Thorn Park off Mannamead Road where building work was being done at a private house.
RAIB Report: Station overrun incident at Stonegate, East Sussex
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into an overrun incident at Stonegate on 8 November 2010.
Report Summary:
"Shortly after 08:00 hrs on Monday 8 November 2010, a passenger train running from London Charing Cross to Hastings failed to stop at Stonegate station in …
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