Calls for Return of Road Casualty Reduction Targets
Road safety charity Brake has urged the UK Government to reintroduce casualty reduction targets. The call follows the publication by the Department for Transport of its Reported Road Casualties in Great Britain Annual Report for 2014, which shows that 1,775 people died on the roads (a 4% increase on the year before). A further 22,807 […]
Changes to workplace accident reporting
Changes to the mandatory reporting system for work related injuries came into force on 1st October. The changes had been the subject of a consultation exercise that ran from August to October last year. RIDDOR The rules on injury reporting are contained within the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995, which place a […]
Major overhaul of Coroner Services in England and Wales
The needs of bereaved families will be put at the heart of a reformed coroner system by a new national code, according to Justice Minister Helen Grant. The new legal framework will ensure all 96 coroners in England and Wales will work to the same standards, ending the past inconsistencies which led to criticisms 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, […]
New regulations on preventing sharps injuries
New regulations to control the risks posed by needles and other ‘sharps’ in healthcare came into effect this month. The Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations came into force on 11th May 2013. Northern Ireland introduced equivalent regulations on the same date. The Health and Safety Executive introduced the new regulations to implement a European Directive. They […]
Reported Road Casualties 2011
Reported road accident and casualty statistics have been released by Transport Scotland’s Statistician. The statistics show that there were: With regards to road accidents, there were: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0.
General damages increase ruling published
The Court of Appeal in England this week amended a ruling that would have led to an increase in general damages in most civil cases from 1st April 2013. The general background to the case is the balanced package of measures recommended in the final report of the Review of Civil Litigation Costs produced by […]
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 […]
