Calls to Reduce Fatalities amongst Company Drivers
Companies are being urged to step up their commitment to safer business driving on UK roads, by recommending organisations they employ or hire carry the ISO 39001 accreditation, which shows their drivers have met some of the highest safety standards. The call comes from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), which recently conducted a survey revealing that […]
Company Fined for Edinburgh Warehouse Fall
A roofing company from Bristol has recently appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, where it pled guilty to failing to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to its employees when working at heights after an employee fell through a roof light. The incident happened in July last year at a warehouse in Gorgie Park […]
HSE prosecutes firm for insurance failure
A Sunderland firm has been fined for failing to hold statutory insurance that enables employees to claim compensation should they be injured at work. Section 1 of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 requires that employers carry insurance against the personal injury of their employees. As well as being insured, employers must make available details […]
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 […]
Workers need continued protection against ‘sharps’
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has published details of its response to a HSE consultation over a changes to ‘sharps’ regulations. In its response, IOSH highlighted the need for people in all professions to continue to be protected when working with sharp medical instruments, and warned the regulator against excluding non-medical workers from […]
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 […]
Analysis of work-related road risk
A national standard for the management of work-related road risk would be welcomed by businesses, and should include ‘back to basics’ advice to practitioners about the processes and interventions they should be using to manage and lower their risk, according to new research by TRL. Dr Shaun Helman, who led the research, said: “For some […]
Attorney General to apply for fresh inquests for Hillsborough victims
The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, has announced that although his consideration of the evidence is not complete, he has made the decision to apply to the High Court to quash the inquest verdicts of the 96 victims and order fresh inquests. He will now write to the families of the victims to give […]
Essex truck firm in court over life-changing injuries
An Essex firm has been prosecuted after one of its employees suffered life-changing injuries when he fell from a stepladder while spray-painting a lorry. The 51-year-old man shattered his left shoulder and collar bone, broke several ribs and received a deep cut to his head in the fall. The company was prosecuted by the […]
Government red tape blitz
Shops, offices, pubs and clubs will no longer face health and safety inspections, and over 3,000 regulations will be scrapped or overhauled in a radical plan by the Government to curb red tape and boost British business growth. From April 2013, the Government intends to introduce binding new rules on both the Health & Safety […]
