At a glance – video round-up of the 10 biggest health and safety prosecutions of 2019.
September 21, 2020
A mechanic and landlord based in Kent has been sentenced after refusing to comply with enforcement notices issued by the HSE and Kent Fire and Rescue Service to protect workers and tenants from injury. Read More
September 18, 2020
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has notified AWE plc that it will be prosecuted under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (1974). Read More
September 17, 2020
'It is not good enough for companies to assume they are doing all they can to control the risk just because there have been no previous incidents,' says HSE, after a specialist industrial services company worker suffered a fatal injury. Read More
September 16, 2020
A firm has been fined £30,000 for breaching health and safety legislation after an employee injured his hand, a month after he had escaped unscathed in a similar incident which was not acted upon. Read More
September 3, 2020
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been issued with a Crown Censure by the HSE after a military diver died during training. Read More
September 2, 2020
A bakery has been fined after an employee amputated his right hand on a bagel production line. Read More
September 1, 2020
A manufacturer of adhesive tape has been fined after a worker was fatally injured while operating a rewind slitting machine. Read More
August 28, 2020
A trio of construction companies have been fined after a worker suffered fatal injuries while demolishing a two-storey building in preparation for a development project. Read More
August 27, 2020
A powder coating company has been fined after a worker in a factory suffered shattered lumbar vertebrae and had to be kept in a lying down position on his back for two weeks in hospital. Read More
August 26, 2020
A maritime freight and logistics company has been fined after a worker suffered multiple bone fractures to his foot when a forklift truck was driven over it. Read More