Health and Safety News
16/5/2012
The owner of a roofing company in Aberdeenshire has been prosecuted after an employee of the company sustained serious injuries after falling five metres.
More info...14/5/2012
A pig farm in Northern Ireland has been fined £187,500 which amounts to the largest health and safety fine in in the history of the country. The agricultural company received the fine after an employee died as a result of serious safety failures at the farm.
More info...10/5/2012
A director of a construction firm has been fined after the contractor he employed died after falling through a roof of a building in Penryn, Cornwall.
More info...8/5/2012
A recent judgement by the Court of Appeal could have significant consequences for British businesses with subsidiaries. The Court ruled in favour of a man who was suffering from an asbestos-related illness who was seeking damages against the parent company of his former employer.
More info...3/5/2012
A self-employed joiner who wishes to remain anonymous is paralysed from the waist down as a result of a fall from balcony he was working on in a church in South Kensington.
More info...1/5/2012
A pest controller in West Norfolk has been prosecuted after storing hazardous pesticides in an unlocked garden shed.
More info...30/4/2012
An apprentice worker sustained serious injuries after falling from scaffolding that was not safely secured at a shipyard in Falmouth.
More info...26/4/2012
An egg company in Worcestershire has been fined after an employee had two fingers cut off while attempting to clean out a drain on a production line.
More info...25/4/2012
Although many businesses in the UK already have asbestos management policies in place, there certainly remains a lot of work to be done to make these policies as effective and thorough as possible according to a recent online survey.
More info...23/4/2012
The emergency services in the West Midlands have discovered a body in a burnt-put car in a salvage yard in Erdington, Birmingham.
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