Category: Health and Safety Executive
OIL COMPANY FINED £1.2M AFTER EMPLOYEES SUFFER SERIOUS BURNS
Oil refinery company, Phillips 66 Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after two workers in North Lincolnshire suffered life-changing injuries from an uncontrolled release of high pressure and high...
MANUFACTURING COMPANY FINED AFTER WORKER FATALLY INJURED
IFG Drake Ltd has been fined after a worker suffered fatal crush injuries whilst working on a machine at the site in Huddersfield. Leeds Crown Court heard how, on 24 March 2017, Mr Javeed...
GOVERNMENT ISSUES ‘WORKING SAFELY’ ADVICE FOR UK EMPLOYERS
The UK Government has published its ‘working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)’ guidance for employers to help them get their businesses back up and running. As lockdown measures...
HSE ASSEMBLES SPECIALIST UNIT TO SUPPORT UK COVID-19 RESPONSE
Britain’s workplace regulator has assembled a team of specialists to assist the government’s national effort to get personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline health care workers...
HSE ISSUES LEGISLATION EXEMPTION FOR BIOCIDAL HAND SANITISER
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has taken steps to support hand sanitiser manufacturers as UK production is increasing to tackle Coronavirus. Due to unprecedented demand for biocidal hand...
SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR GAS SAFETY FAILINGS
A Plymouth landlord has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks undertaken at his rental property in Canterbury Drive,...
HSE INSPECTIONS DUE FOLLOWING WELDING FUME ALERT
Workers must protect their workers’ health by controlling the risks from welding fume the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has said. HSE's current programme of inspections...
CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO ENHANCE SAFETY REGULATOR POWERS
As the board charged with implementing the new Building Safety Regulator meets this week and the government begins to frame its legislation, a UK construction body has called for enhanced powers for...
PROSECUTION OVER THREATENING OF HSE INSPECTOR
A senior inspector at Britain’s workplace regulator has stressed that the organisation will not tolerate violence, aggression or abuse of its staff after a man was sentenced for a public order...
POLICE FORCE FINED AFTER CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE INJURED
South Wales Police has been fined after an employee received an electric shock whilst installing computer data cables. Cardiff Magistrates’ Court heard that on the 16 October 2015, at...
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