The actions of “multiple companies and work teams” contributed to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, a report released by BP has concluded.
BP Products North America Inc. (BP) has consented to pay a penalty of $50.6m (£32.5m) over safety issues stemming from the 2005 Texas City oil refinery explosion.
Behind the glitz and the glamour of events like the World Cup and the Olympic Games there are workers around the world sweating blood to fulfil orders for major sportswear brands and forced to work in unsafe factories for paltry pay packets.
Seven men have been convicted more than 25 years after a gas-plant leak in Bhopal, central India amounted to the biggest industrial disaster the world has ever known.
Work-related stress is as great a concern for European managers as workplace accidents, according to the results of a comprehensive pan-European survey.
A firm of consulting engineers and its senior project engineer have
been cleared of failing to design a safe system of work by not
designing an adequate support system for landings and staircases.
Berkshire-based Mowlem Railways, part of £2bn construction giant Mowlem, was fined a total of £75,000 at Belfast Crown Court on 10 March, the largest-ever fine in Northern Ireland for a breach of workplace health and safety legislation.
It is exactly 40 years since the United States’ OSH Act and the country’s first nationwide approach to workplace safety were introduced. The American system of workplace safety is, however, very different to that in the UK, so James Pomeroy compares the two at a time when many leading industry figures on this side of the pond are asking whether we need to change our approach.
Measuring worker exposure to noise, and the damage it does, can be very difficult in some industries. Here, Peter Zymanczyk looks at how studies into hearing loss among firefighters have revealed the sources of the damage and how best to combat it.
