Pressure group Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) has slammed a major construction firm for failing to put “very basic” measures in place to protect a worker who suffered fatal head injuries.
A care home in Wales has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 in fines and costs after an elderly resident was killed when he fell 12 feet out of a window.
An unregistered tattooist who ran his business from his “dirty and unhygienic bedroom” has been prosecuted by his local council for putting members of the public at risk.
An HSE inspector has slammed a boat company for a dangerous lack of planning during removal work at a factory, where a worker was knocked off some stairs.
A Midlands aluminium casting company has appeared in court to answer charges relating to a molten-metal splash that seriously burned one of its employees.
A highway maintenance worker slipped into a coma after suffering serious head injuries when the excavator he was driving struck a bridge on the M1 motorway in the East Midlands.
A social care organisation failed to take adequate action to protect service staff from a potentially aggressive client with learning disabilities, despite staff being exposed to a number of violent incidents involving the individual over a 21-month period.
Yet another easily preventable fatality had the employer complied witht he most basic of safety measures Like so many negligent employers they tried to put the full blame on the victim for his own...
There are many reasons why employers should address alcohol issues. The first is financial, a report by the EU in September showed that employers would save at least £3 for every £1 spent on alcohol...
Based on reports I have read the 2 girls chose to open a gate and walk across an operational railway line when sirens & red lights were still flashing indicating that another train was approaching. A...
I can't help wondering about the "specialist contractor" and their part in this incident. One might expect them to know immediately that the pipe would need to be purged before any work was carried...
