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National food and drink manufacturing health and safety conference – October 2012

HSE — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:30:14 +0000

Following the very successful conference held in Nottingham in October 2011 and previous annual conferences, the next national conference is scheduled to be held in Harrogate on 9-10 October 2012.

Egg firm fined after worker’s fingers cut off

HSE — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:30:43 +0000

A Worcestershire egg company has been fined after a worker severed two fingers while cleaning a drain on a production line.

COSHH and your industry – How does it affect you?

HSE — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:33:00 +0000

How does Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) affect you in your industry? Select your industry to view key messages and how COSHH affects you.

Firms fined over woman’s roof fall

HSE — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:30:59 +0000

An animal feed producer and a maintenance contractor have been fined after a woman fell five metres through a fragile warehouse roof in Staffordshire.

Worker’s fall leads to fine

HSE — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:58:04 +0000

A partner in a Leicester food company has been fined after an employee fell around two metres while unloading a shipping container attached to the back of an HGV.

Nestle fined £180,000 after safety failures led to worker’s death

HSE — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:30:17 +0000

A Halifax man was killed at a Nestle factory in the town because the company failed to implement basic safety measures, Bradford Crown Court was told today.

Factory fall leads to prosecution for Lincolnshire company

HSE — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:00:31 +0000

A Lincolnshire food manufacturer has been fined after a worker fell from a breadcrumb-making machine.

Gust of wind blows worker off top of shipping container

HSE — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:49:27 +0000

A food manufacturing firm has been fined after a worker was blown off the top of a shipping container while moving corrugated metal sheets.

Stress in your workplace? – Harrogate, 22 February 2012

HSE — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:30:03 +0000

Harrogate and District Health and Safety forum – free event. The aim of this event is to help you understand the causes of stress in order to prevent identify and manage it in your workforce and relate this to what the law expects of the employer.

Norfolk companies prosecuted after worker crushes hand

HSE — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:42 +0000

Two Norfolk companies have been fined after a cleaner’s hand was crushed in machinery.

Chocolate manufacturer fined over fractured finger

HSE — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:42:47 +0000

High street chocolate chain Thorntons has been fined after a worker broke her finger while operating a wrapping machine.

Baker fined after worker suffers crush injuries

HSE — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:00:38 +0000

A baker from Hampshire has been fined after a teenage worker had his fingers crushed in a machine at a bakery near Ringwood.

North Yorkshire firm in court for safety breach

HSE — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:00:45 +0000

A North Yorkshire company has been fined under safety laws after a supervisor suffered severe injuries to his hand.

Health and safety ‘Common Strategy’ document revised

HSE — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000

The Food and Drink Manufacture Health and Safety Forum has revised its working document ‘A common strategy for improving health and safety in the food and drink manufacturing industries’. This document was originally drawn up between the HSE, the Food and Drink Federation and trades unions almost 20 years ago and re-written in 2004 when the Forum came into existence. This latest revision sets out the challenges, objectives, progress to date and proposed action/targets that each Forum partner will undertake to further improve health and safety in the industry.

Chicken Company fined £230,000 after workers loses most of his hand

HSE — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:00:26 +0000

A major European food business producing raw and prepared chicken products has been fined a total of £230,000 after two incidents at its Suffolk factory, one of which led to an employee losing four fingers, part of his thumb and some of the palm of his right hand.

Food firm sentenced over Wigan worker’s injuries

HSE — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:01:38 +0000

A food processing firm has been sentenced after one of its employees suffered serious injuries to her arm at a Wigan factory.

Perthshire malt company fined after worker loses part of leg

HSE — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:00:04 +0000

A national malt company, Pauls Malt Limited, has been fined after a worker had to have the lower part of his left leg amputated, when he became entangled in machinery inside a grain silo.

Company fined after worker’s fingers are crushed

HSE — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:30:59 +0000

A Gosport-based food company has been fined after a worker had her fingers crushed in a machine at a factory in Hampshire in 2010.

Meat plant worker killed by forklift

HSE — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:30:17 +0000

A Livingston firm has been fined £100,000 after a worker was killed when he was hit by a forklift truck so badly loaded its driver could not see him.

UK’s largest pork producer fined after worker severs fingers

HSE — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:00:13 +0000

The UK’s biggest producer of pork products has been fined after a worker severed two fingers in an unguarded mixing machine.