Child Pedestrians are at Increased Risk on Scotland’s Roads
Child pedestrians are two and a half times more likely than adults to be injured in road accidents, according to new figures from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH). Although accident rates are falling, more child and adult pedestrians are injured in road traffic accidents in deprived areas compared with more affluent areas. Over the […]
IAM Calls for Greater Traffic Education
Traffic education should become an integral part of the National Curriculum, in an effort to cut the numbers of young people killed and injured on UK roads, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has said. The call ties in with a survey by the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), which found that only seven of 15 […]
Employer Prosecuted After Worker Severs Thumb
The owner of a Derbyshire firm that specialises in refurbishing precision machining tools has been fined for safety breaches after a worker severed a thumb while lifting a heavy component. Mark Evans, who was 45, was working on rebuilding a rotary table device when the incident happened. As he worked on the tool, which is used for […]
FAI Delays Cause Suffering for Bereaved Families
Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAI) are taking too long and prolonging pain and upset for bereaved families, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has said, as a Scottish Government consultation on improving the inquiries process comes to a close. “The real problems lie with the huge delays before the matter gets as far as an inquiry,” […]
Transformation of Scotland’s civil court system
The Scottish Government has published details of controversial plans to overhaul the civil court system in Scotland, following on from recommendations made in Lord Gill’s Scottish Civil Courts Review (SCCR). The proposals will have a big impact on personal injury cases. Scottish Civil Courts Review The Rt Hon Lord Gill, then Lord Justice Clerk, now the […]
HSE Crown Censure of MOD over death of cadet
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has been censured over safety failings that led to the death of a 14-year-old cadet. Kaylee McIntosh died in August 2007 after becoming trapped beneath the boat she was in when it capsized on Loch Carnan in bad weather. A Health and Safety Executive investigation found a series of serious failings by […]
Cuts to consultation periods are “counterproductive”
The chartered body for health and safety professionals has welcomed a call by parliamentarians to allow adequate time for consultations on Government policy. Ministers are looking at slashing the time allowed for organisations to comment on some proposed law changes, from 12 weeks to as little as two. The aim is to make the consultation process more […]
Drivers urged to ‘GO 20’
A campaign launched at the start of Road Safety Week is appealing to drivers and authorities in Scotland to GO 20, to bring about a 2012 legacy of safe walking and cycling. Brake, the road safety charity, is appealing to drivers to slow down to 20mph or below in communities, and calling for widespread 20mph […]
HSE publishes data on workplace injury in Scotland
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently published provisional statistics on workplace ill-health and injury in Scotland in 2011/12. The figures show that: The HSE has also revealed that in 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available across the EU, the standardised rate of work-related fatal injury excluding traffic accidents was […]
New whiplash research
Lawyers have called for “sanity” in the national whiplash debate after claims dropped by 24,000 in the last year. An independent survey, commissioned by the not-for-profit Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) also found that almost 40% of people who have suffered a whiplash injury have never claimed compensation for it. The new information “injects […]
