Health and Safety News
We scour the Internet for Health and Safety related news items on an almost daily basis.
The news articles and clippings, curated by MD Safety, highlight the requirements for compliance with UK Health and Safety Legislation and best practice across all industry sectors.
The majority of the information and cases will apply to a greater or lesser degree to our broad range of Clients and lessons to be learned will be able to be gained.
Two companies fined for failing that led to crush injury
Two companies have been fined a total of £100,000 after an employee was crushed by machinery. Chivas Brothers Limited and Fire Protection Group (FPG) Limited pled guilty to health and safety breaches, committed between 20 December 2016 and 22 February 2017, at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.
Read MoreWorker’s arm became trapped in machinery
A rubber processing company has been fined after a worker’s arm was trapped in machinery. An employee of Marple Polymers Processors Limited was cleaning a stationary conveyor belt on a Banbury mixing machine, on 4 January 2018. Unaware cleaning was taking place, another employee started the conveyor belt system. The original employee’s left arm became trapped between the conveyor belt and the tension idler causing serious injuries to their arm and hand.
Read MoreConstruction company prosecuted for multiple safety failings
A construction company has been fined after repeated health and safety breaches, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a site in Bolton. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how inspections at the construction site at Manchester Road, Bolton, had taken place three times between October 2019 to January 2020 by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Read MoreHSE warns on work-related road risk
Driving for work is likely to be the most dangerous activity most workers will ever undertake, the Health & Safety Executive says. Company car drivers in the UK are 49% more likely to be involved in traffic collisions, even after correcting for demographic variables and their relatively high mileages. Countless other will suffer stress, anxiety and/or minor injuries from unreported incidents.
Read MoreUpdated Guidance: Driving and riding safely for work
Updated - Guidance on managing health and safety risks to workers who drive a vehicle or ride a motorcycle, other powered two-wheeler or bicycle on the road as part of work.
Read MoreWind farm firms admit safety failures that led to security guard’s death
The parent company of a contractor that was building a wind farm in Scotland and a security firm that employed staff to guard the remote site have admitted safety breaches after a security guard was trapped in snow for four and half hours and later died from hypothermia. Another security guard also had to be airlifted to hospital but survived the extreme weather conditions.
Read MoreHSE develops BIM safety guidance for clients
The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) BIM 4 Health & Safety Working Group is working with the UK BIM Alliance to develop guidance for construction clients on using BIM to improve design risk management. The guidance note will help clients produce project information requirements (PIRs) for design risk management and is based on the protocols of BS EN ISO 19650, the international standard for managing information over the whole lifecycle of a built asset using BIM.
Read MoreMorrisons denies charges in worker death case
Supermarket chain Morrisons has pleaded not guilty to four health and safety charges following the death of one of its workers in 2014. Matthew Joseph Gunn, 27, died 12 days after falling on the staff staircase at Morrisons' Ashchurch Road store in Tewkesbury on 25 September 2014. Matthew had worked for the company for 10 years and had suffered from epilepsy since the age of four.
Read MoreCompany fined after several workers contracted occupational disease
Construction company Peter Duffy Ltd was sentenced today for safety breaches after multiple employees were diagnosed with Hand Arm Vibration (HAVS).Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard that the company reported seven cases of HAVS between November 2016 and August 2018.
Read MoreFurniture company fined for safety failure after driver injured
A furniture manufacturer based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire has been fined after a delivery driver sustained serious leg injuries when he was struck by a reversing lorry in the yard. Derbyshire Magistrates Court heard how a visiting contractor driver had arrived at Belfield’s’ site in Furnace Road, Ilkeston, parked in position and pulled open the curtains of his lorry trailer for loading by a Belfield Furnishings’ employee.
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