New figures published for fatally injured workers
New official statistics have shown that the number of workers fatally injured in Britain last year remains largely unchanged. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released provisional data for April 2011 to March 2012, which shows 173 workers were killed – down two from the previous year. The rate of fatal injury remains the […]
Company fined after fatal accident at work
Railcare Ltd has been fined £133,000 (reduced from £200,000 on account of their guilty plea) at Glasgow Sheriff Court for a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, following the death of one of their employees in December 2008. John Smith, a 53-year old employee of the company, […]
New figures show continued fall in workplace ill health and injury
New figures have shown that the ongoing trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work has continued. The statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that in Britain between April 2010 and March 2011: The new data confirms that Britain continues to have the lowest rate […]
Two thirds of Scottish workplace deaths in agriculture
Nearly two thirds of Scots killed at work last year worked in agriculture, analysis of figures published earlier this year by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown. Of the fifteen workplace fatalities that occurred between April 2010 and March 2011, nine were in agriculture. Across Great Britain, the five year average rate of […]
