The owners of a manufacturing company appeared in front of magistrates to answer charges relating to an incident in which an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press.
Supervisors of unpaid work placements (formerly known as community service) are being subjected to increasing abuse and threats from offenders, with staff feeling intimidated and scared at work, according to a union for probation staff.
David Cameron seems committed to releasing the Police from the ‘burden’ of health and safety rules that might impede their duty to the public, while Lord Young believes that all emergency services should be excluded from the HSWA. Peter Atkinson considers whether the same rigorous health and safety workplace standards exercised in non-emergency situations should apply to the blue-light services in a crisis.
Evolving life on Earth, from the time of primordial single-cell organisms to humankind, has been immersed in a sea of radiation. In certain work environments it is a source of incidental pollution, so Dr Chris Ide explains the risks and suggests what can be done to address them.
Innovation is crucial in health and safety if people are to continue to be protected from hazards that are arising and evolving all the time in the world around us – and particularly in the workplace.
The entire library of codes of practice and best practice guides for the door and hardware industry are now available for free download from the Door and Hardware Federation (DHF) website.
I work in Utilities, we dig holes in urban streets. Claims from compensation lawyers refer to clients tripping over or even falling into holes several months before, long after we've reinstated and...
Exempting them will not result in one extra life saved. Thousands of support staff will instead be exposed to workplace hazards impacting on sickness absence, future claims and bad working...
If the accident isn’t 100% your fault, you are entitled to make a slips and trips on street injury claim, however, you need to ensure you receive the best advice about how to make your claim,...
in this new world of 'just-in-time' delivery practice, drivers do not have the time to examine loads, particularly mixed or complex loads such as this, training is non-existant and the whole way that...
I'm amazed that a company as large as this has got away with what appears to be a slap of the wrist. It beggers belief that a systems checking procedure wasnt in place previously, this cant be the...
