IOSH Aims to Improve Occupational Safety for Fashion Workers
With the aim being to improve the safety of those working in supply chain factories, which are commonplace in the fashion industry, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has teamed up with Fashion Revolution and politicians. The collaboration, which took place of 29 June 2015, involved looking at projects that has been setup to […]
How Many People in the UK are Killed at Work Each Year?
According to new figures recently published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), between April 2013 and March 2014, 133 people in Britain died in workplace accidents – 17 less than the previous year, 42 less than 2010/11, 46 less than 2008/09 and the lowest number since records began. With the number of fatal injuries now at 133, the […]
Firms fined for asbestos failings
Two Lincoln companies have been fined after workers were exposed to asbestos during the refurbishment of a Northamptonshire hospital ward. One of the companies was hired by the other to carry out an asbestos survey before work began on the hospital. The survey identified an asbestos coating on the underside of the ceilings, but missed […]
Health and safety law reforms
The Government has announced plans to begin a major cut back of health and safety legislation as early as January. It will begin an immediate consultation on the abolition of large numbers of health and safety regulations and intends to have removed the first rules from the statute book within a few months. It will […]
Cement firm fined after worker’s death
A multinational cement firm has been fined £200,000 following the death of a worker in an explosion at its Rugby premises. The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted CEMEX UK Operations Ltd, which makes cement and building products for the construction industry, after the death of 28-year-old Peter Reynolds in 2008. The force of the explosion […]
Firm fined over cooling tower drowning
A maintenance contractor must pay a total of £155,000 after a man fell into a water filled sump at a North Wales power station and drowned. Michael Benn, 37, from Glenrothes, Fife was one of a team of three working to remove sludge and debris from part of a cooling tower at Connah’s Quay Power […]
Call for reduction in workplace dust level limits
The TUC is calling for urgent action to reduce dust levels in the workplace, a hazard which is responsible for thousands of deaths in the UK every year. The TUC publication says that there is now clear scientific evidence which suggests that the current UK limits for inhalable and respirable dust should be much lower. […]
Glasgow demolition worker fatally injured
Whiteinch Demolition Limited, a Glasgow demolition contractor, has been fined after a worker was killed when a weight from a face shovel machine fell on him. On 12 May 2008 Bernard McCarroll, aged 68 years from Croy, was dismantling a hydraulic excavator at the company’s yard in Glasgow by the process known as burning, using […]
Worker crushed between two skips
An Ayr recycling company was fined £80,000 after a worker was severely injured when he was crushed between two skips. Steven Graham was standing in between two skips at a recycling centre run by Lowmac Alloys Ltd when a shovel loader weighing more than 18 tonnes hit one of the skips, pushing it towards the […]
Stewardess sues BA after injury at work
An air hostess is suing her employer, British Airways, after she was hit on the head by a falling ice canister while at work, reports the London Evening Standard. The 41-year old was fetching a drink for a passenger from the rear galley of the plane when the incident took place in 2008. The injury […]
