A waste company’s “mixed messages” on safety may have contributed to an incident in which the driver of a refuse-collection vehicle reversed over a female pedestrian and fatally injured her.

An incident in which a well-established galvanizing-industry practice ended in a worker being badly burnt is one of several incidents that have prompted the HSE to look at how formal guidance for the sector on safe lifting can be improved.

Pall-Ex (UK), a Leicester-based haulage company that handles palletised goods, has been fined a total of £100,000 after a driver was killed when his forklift truck fell on him.