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 […]
Welcome drop in major workplace injuries
Although reports of workers suffering serious or fatal injuries in the course of their work continue to occur too frequently, recent figures indicate that there has been a fall in the overall number of major injuries arising in the workplace. Significant decline in major injuries According to the latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive, the incidence of […]
Rise in Scottish workplace fatalities
There was a slight increase in the number of workers killed in Scotland last year, despite an overall fall across Great Britain, according to new provisional statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Great Britain as a whole saw 148 workers fatally injured between April 2012 and March 2013, compared with 172 in the previous year, […]
Scottish worker fatalities increase
The risks facing workers across Scotland would appear to be increasing rather than falling, as the latest provisional figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that 20 workers lost their lives while at work in Scotland last year – an increase of six on the previous year. HSE disappointment The HSE has expressed […]
Workers’ Memorial Day
On Saturday 28th April, unions and safety campaigners around the world will be marking Workers’ Memorial Day and remembering the two million men and women who die every year as a result of work-related accidents and diseases. In the UK over 20,000 people die prematurely every year as a result of injuries or accidents caused […]
