Worker Suffers Life-Changing Injuries After Fall From Height
A worker suffered serious injuries when he plunged nine metres through a fragile warehouse roof in Northampton. The man was walking on fragile asbestos cement sheeting during roofing work when it gave way beneath him and he fell onto a metal pallet and then the concrete floor. He sustained three fractures to his right arm, multiple fractures […]
Updated guidance to help protect workers’ safety
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published updated guidance for employers on how to protect the health, safety and welfare of their workers. The move follows a recent public consultation over the changes, which were proposed after Professor Ragnar Löfsted’s 2011 review found that the Workplace Regulations Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) was in need […]
Towards better detection of dangerous medicines
Proposed new changes to existing EU legislation, backed by the European Parliament’s Public Health Committee, would trigger an automatic EU safety evaluation in the event of a safety alert about a medicinal product in any EU Member State. These changes would ensure that the adverse effects of medicinal products will be better monitored, to prevent […]
Changes to health and safety reporting
With effect from 6th April, employers no longer have to report to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) injuries which keep workers off normal duties for seven or fewer days. Previously, injuries had to be reported if they kept workers off normal duties for more than three days. The change to the Reporting of Injuries, […]
