A construction site worker from Rushden has been prosecuted after he struck another worker on the head with the bucket on a digger. The digger driver was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found he had been using a mobile phone while operating the excavator vehicle on a building site…
Junior School is to ban children bringing a snack of fruit or rice cakes to school on the grounds of “health and safety”. Their reasoning is that this is a health and safety risk to children at school with food allergies. Panel decision Whilst schools need to have procedures in place for managing pupils with…
A roofing firm and its managing director have been fined after they allowed workers onto a house roof in Tyldesley to use a jet washer without safety measures in place. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was alerted to the dangerous work at a semi-detached house by a member of the public on 6 June…
Workplace falls and dangerous machines have been named as the two most common reasons for companies being prosecuted over health and safety breaches in the North West. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) successfully brought 65 cases to court in the region during the 12 months from April 2013, with 14 cases involving work at…
Legislation Update – Timetable of changes: February 2014 The Heavy Fuel Oil (Amendment) Regulations 2014 March 2014 Regulation (EU) No 649/2012 – concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals was amended. This is commonly known as the PIC (Prior Informed Consent) Regulation. April 2014 Health and Safety Law Poster – by April 2014 the newest version…
The Government has urged local authorities to stop misusing health and safety rules to ban activities that are not dangerous and start using “common sense” instead. Ministers claimed that a school in Gloucester banned girls from wearing “frilly socks” in case they tripped over; a Hampshire school stopped a pupil bringing a chick to school…
A Hull-based company, which operates worldwide, has been prosecuted for neglecting the safety of its staff after an agency worker had an arm crushed when it was dragged into a machine. The worker from East Hull, suffered crush injuries to his right hand and arm in the incident at the Hull based employer a leading…
An agency worker based in N. London received life-threatening burn injuries in an explosion when he severed a 415-volt electrical cable, unaware it was still live, a court has heard. The worker hired by a building company, was among a team stripping out a property in Westminster prior to refurbishment. Th worker was stripping out…
A national printing company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a Leeds worker suffered a partial finger amputation because dangerous parts of a machine weren’t properly guarded. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the incident at the company in Leeds, on 12 February 2012. Leeds Magistrates were told that the 55-year-old employee was…
A recycling company from Redditch has been sentenced for serious safety failings after a worker was killed by a bale of waste weighing more than a tonne. Kenneth Swaby, 43, of Canvey Island, Essex, was struck by the falling bale as he walked past a stack of them, some five metres high, on 11 February…
