Tradespeople across Great Britain are being warned about the hidden dangers associated with asbestos.  The warning comes as part of the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Asbestos and You campaign targeting tradespeople about the personal risks from asbestos that still exist in  properties across the country today.

Climbdown likely after cross-party Lords revolt threatens to defeat Jacob Rees-Mogg’s retained EU law bill.  Ministers have begun a full-scale retreat over post-Brexit plans to ditch thousands of EU laws by the end of this year, after Tory peers warned they would join a mass cross-party revolt in the House of Lords.

A manufacturing company has been fined £600,000 after a worker’s leg was crushed by a forklift truck.  The man was working for AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings Limited when the incident occurred at the firm’s Birmingham site on Bordesley Green Road on 8 May 2018.

An East Yorkshire garden landscaping supply company has been fined £600,000 after an employee died while loading a lorry.  Brian White, 59, was working for Kelkay Limited when he was operating a forklift truck at the company’s site on Heck and Pollington Lane, Pollington, East Yorkshire, on 15 June 2018.

As part of its collection of guidance documents for those with a legal duty for fire safety in relevant premises, the Department for Housing Communities and Local Government (DLUHC) has published three new fire safety guides for those responsible for small premises.

On 23 March 2023, at Chester Crown Court, Christopher Colebourne pleaded guilty to seven counts of “failing to comply with the Fire Safety (Regulatory Reform) Order 2005”.  Mr Colebourne is the sole director and owner of Oddies Bar Crew Ltd, which includes flats above the bar and an adjacent takeaway.

A Peterborough company has been fined £500,000 after a young father was killed in an explosion at a firework factory.  Twenty-four-year-old Brendan Ledgister was working for Le Maitre Ltd when one of the products he was using ignited and caused an explosion on 2 October 2018.

Dr Karen McDonnell, RoSPA’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser and Head of RoSPA Scotland, discusses the main risks relating to driver behaviour and how employers can help to tackle them…  

A major pipeline transportation company has been fined £2.3million for safety breaches after its employees were exposed to risk of serious injury and even death while working on a leaking pipeline containing petrol under pressure.  Workers at Exolum Pipeline System Ltd, formerly known as CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS) Ltd, were excavating a suspected pipeline leak in the woodland adjacent to the B1398 and M180 near Holme, North Lincolnshire, between 7 to 10 March 2018. The employees were working in an area where a previous repair had taken place.

A coroner has concluded that an ambulance worker in Wales who caught Covid while attending to an infected patient died from an ‘industrial disease’.  Coroner Paul Bennett said 59-year-old Alan Haigh’s employment as an emergency medical technician during the pandemic presented the ‘greatest risk’ to his health.