The Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) wants businesses to let it know to what areas of enforcement local authorities should pay most attention.

A council has scrapped a bonus scheme that encouraged employees to work with tools for long hours, thereby exposing them to excessive vibration.

A local authority has taken action against newsagent chain Martin McColl for failing to protect employees from workplace violence.

A Scottish local council has been fined £20,000 after a man drowned when he drove off the unprotected edge of a coastal car park and fell in to the sea.

A hotel must pay £135,000 in fines and costs after a member of the public drowned in an unsupervised swimming pool.

In a case that demonstrates that health and safety professionals are not immune to prosecution, a health and safety manager has lost his appeal against safety charges brought against him following a flashover incident.

A local council in Wales has appeared in front of magistrates after one of its employees was injured when a dumper truck overturned in woodlands.

Hilary Ross examines the New Look case – a prosecution under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRO) 2005, which caused some disquiet in health and safety circles, not least on account of the size of the penalty imposed.