Welcome to the latest news from Safety & Health Practitioner
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Making the News this week: New EU guidelines have been
introduced to
protect health workers from sharps injuries; an advocacy
group is urging men to pay more attention to their health after
new research shows that the
average man born in the UK can expect to be seriously ill for 15
years of his life; and the MP who was the architect of the
Gangmasters
Licensing Act 2004 has
introduced a new Bill that would see the Act cover the
construction industry.
In court:
A construction firm and its managing director have been fined
following the death of a workman
at a building site in Dundee; a farm
labourer died after crashing a faulty quad bike into a tree;
and a factory worker received a double fracture to one of his
fingers after his
hand was drawn into an unguarded machine.
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two weeks away.
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The most commented-on stories last week were:
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NEWS |
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EU-wide agreement on
medical sharps injuries
New European Union guidelines to
protect health workers from sharps injuries have
been announced.
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Men urged to pay more
attention to their health
The life expectancy of the average
man born in the UK is still less than 75 years,
and he can expect to be seriously or chronically
ill for 15 of those, an advocacy group for male
health has warned.
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Architect of Gangmasters Bill wants construction
extension
The MP whose Private Members’ Bill
eventually led to the Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 has
introduced a new Bill that would see the Act extended to
cover the construction industry.
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IN COURT |
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Company director
“wholly culpable” for bricklayer’s death
The death of a migrant worker at a
building site in Dundee has resulted in fines
totalling 9000 for a construction firm and one
of its directors – only the second successful
prosecution of a company director in Scotland in
the last six years.
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Faulty quad bike kills farm
worker
A farm worker was killed in a quad-bike
accident after he lost control of the vehicle and
collided with a tree.
Man tried to clear blockage
from unguarded device
A factory worker received a double fracture
to one of his fingers after his hand was drawn into an
unguarded rotating part of a chained conveyor.
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INDUSTRY
ROUND-UP |
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Well Done: MITIE wins Sellafield safety award
Strategic outsourcing and asset
management company, MITIE, has won an award for
health and safety performance at the Sellafield
Nuclear decommissioning site in Cumbria.
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Powered access: Depots with distinction
Powered-access supplier Lavendon
Access Services has announced a further seven
depots that have now achieved full accreditation
to the TechX (Technical Excellence) programme
– bringing the total number of
TechX-accredited branches to ten.
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Well
Done: Safe driving competition winner announced
Andy Peaker has beaten more than 50,000 other
British commercial drivers to win a national safe
driving competition, which was organised by telematics
company, Masternaut Three X.
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