The Perils of Renovation

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…

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Leading print firm’s safety failures led to injury

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…

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Recycling firm fined £100,000 for worker’s death

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…

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Consultation on Replacement of CDM regs 2007

The HSE are currently undertaking a consultation process with regards to proposed changes to the Construction, (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 One of the main proposals is to replace the current CDM Co-ordinators duties to that of the Principal Designer These changes, if implemented will have implications for anyone involved in a construction type process….

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Consultation on replacement of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007

This Consultation Document seeks views on HSE’s proposal to replace the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) and withdraw the Approved Code of Practice. The proposed Regulations implement in Great Britain the requirements of Directive 92/57/EEC on the implementation of minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile construction sites, apart from certain requirements…

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Unsafe Wall Collapses on Homeowner

A 61-year-old woman was  badly injured when a wall collapsed in her garden on top of her. The woman, from Waterloo, who does not wish to be named, suffered a broken jaw, a double fracture to her right ankle, plus cuts and bruises, when she was struck by the collapse of the two-metre, earth-retaining wall….

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Logistics company fined for workers’ fall from height

A logistics company, which operates worldwide, has been prosecuted after two Margate employees were left badly injured when they were knocked nearly five metres to the ground one of the workers suffering severe life changing injuries, following the incident in 5 May last year. During the prosecution it was heard that one of the men…

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Workers Injured Tackling fire – Employer Fined

Two workers suffered burns, one seriously, when hot material from an industrial drier hit them as they tried to tackle a fire at a factory in South Wales, a court has heard. The employees were trying to fight fire at a coal briquette plant in December 2012 when they were hurt. One of the employees…

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