Warning given about HSE Construction Safety Crackdown

March 15, 2012

The HSE have issued a warning of ‘an intensive inspection initiative aimed at reducing death, injury and ill health’ aimed at the construction industry. Inspectors will be in force throughout March, focusing on high risk activities on building sites.

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Asbestos in the spotlight as health & safety consultancy case comes to court

March 15, 2012

A firm of environmental consultants are prosecuted over the failure to find asbestos before the demolition of cinema in Cardiff.

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Water Management Warning to Business – Drought Now Official

March 9, 2012

South East of England is now officially a drought zone. See how it affects your health and safety and environmental obligations?

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Multiple Failures by Company Bring Fines and Bad Publicity

March 9, 2012

A case has just been brought to court that highlights so many breaches of legislation, it would make a primer for aspiring Health and Safety consultants. Many Enforcement Notices were served over a 7-month period by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) on manufacturing firm Skyways Shopfitters Ltd of Sky Studios, London. The HSE inspectors [...]

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Legionella Outbreak Leads to Prosecution for Recycling Company

March 9, 2012

When there is a health and safety scare, the net is spread wide in the search for culprits, and many companies may be caught up in the search for potential culprits. In this case there was an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Wales valleys in September 2010. No single cause was ever found, [...]

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RIDDOR Change To 7 Days Will Not Lessen Record Keeping

February 21, 2012

You may have heard that, ostensibly in an effort to reduce the paperwork impact on companies, RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will from 6 April 2012 (subject to the expected Parliamentary approval) apply only to seven consecutive days of absence or incapacitation. RIDDOR has until now had to be made [...]

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Man Dies From Roof Fall When Fixing Sign

February 21, 2012

An elderly man was sent up onto a roof to help to fix a new advertising sign, and the fragile roof gave way resulting in the man’s tragic death. This was another sad example of an entirely preventable death. Quality Exhaust Supplies and Fitting Service Ltd owns the vehicle repair garage called GB Autos, located [...]

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Workers claim compensation for alleged dangerous exposure to fumes and dust

February 21, 2012

Every workplace has its share of risk. This case may be at the top end of the scale and it relates to activities that took place many years ago: but it has lessons that should be heeded by every employer in terms of managing the health and safety of a workforce. The case concerns 300 [...]

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Maintenance & Construction Safety in Inspectors’ spotlight

January 31, 2012

All firms involved in construction and building maintenance must be on the lookout during February and March 2012 when HSE are mounting what they call ‘an intensive inspection initiative’ in this sector. As the number of new builds has shrunk due to the economic downturn, most builders are keeping busy where they can with refurbishment [...]

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The London 2012 Olympic Park – a model for CDM best practice?

January 27, 2012

The construction industry can be a dangerous place in which to work. But the enormous London 2012 Olympic Park construction project has taken the lead in its approach to health and safety in a way that should be emulated in other schemes. The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), in co-operation with the HSE, took an inclusive [...]

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