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Safe and sound at work – Do Your Bit with subsidised training from HSE

HSE — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:37 +0000

HSE are offering two new subsidised health and safety training courses designed to either help organizations get started with worker involvement; or improve their existing arrangements for involving workers.

The courses are designed to help organisations achieve the potential benefits associated with a collaborative approach to health and safety at work. These include lower accident rates, increased productivity, efficiency and quality.

Safe and sound at work – Do Your Bit with subsidised training from HSE

Contractor fined for failing to provide toilets for workers

HSE — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:04 +0000

A Bridlington building firm boss was today (4 March) fined for not providing adequate toilet and washing facilities for staff on a construction site.

HSE prosecuted Bryan Ellis Brown, a partner in Bryan Brown & Son, of Flamborough, Bridlington, after finding problems on the site on 23 July 2009.

View press release ‘Contractor fined for failing to provide toilets for workers’

Rotherham council and contractor fined after employee killed by reversing truck

HSE — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:00:36 +0000

Family hopes lessons will be learned after “horrific” loss. Rotherham Council was today fined £75,000 after an employee was killed by a reversing truck.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) also prosecuted contractor Brocklebank & Company (Demolition) Limited over the incident during a council road surfacing operation.

View press release ‘Rotherham council and contractor fined after employee killed by reversing truck’

Safe and sound at work – ‘Do your Bit’

HSE — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:50:48 +0000

Tell employees about health and safety and they’ll know about it. Involve them and they’ll understand, we know from experience that workplaces where employees play an active part in health and safety often have lower accident rates.

Safe and sound at work – ‘Do Your Bit’

Shattered Lives – Sainbury’s case study

HSE — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:21:18 +0000

Sainsbury’s recognised that it needed to revise its footwear policy. Feedback from stores was that steel toecap footwear wasn’t guarding against slips and was too heavy and inflexible.

Shattered Lives – Sainbury’s case study

RR780 – Monitoring the slip resistance of emerging workplace footwear

HSE — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:56 +0000

The objective of this study was to generate information on the slip resistance of emerging footwear using a test developed by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) – the HSL ramp test.

View research report RR780 – Monitoring the slip resistance of emerging workplace footwear

Serious incidents involving agency workers

HSE — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:54:27 +0000

This revised Local Authority Circular requires enforcement officers to inform the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) about serious incidents at work involving agency workers and details the arrangements for doing this.

View LAC 2-5: Serious incidents involving agency workers

Work related stress – together we can tackle the causes

HSE — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:48:44 +0000

If tackling stress was as easy as popping bubble wrap or doodling, work related stress would not be one of the main causes of absence in UK businesses.

On this website, you’ll find useful case studies from these occupations which provide an insight into how stress can be managed effectively in the workplace.

Load Safety – planning load handling

HSE — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:23 +0000

Unsafe loads on vehicles injure more than 1,200 people a year and cost UK businesses millions of pounds in damaged goods. Planning how you secure the load is an important step to keeping workers safe.

Load Safety – planning load handling

Farms – ‘People are still dying’

HSE — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:34:17 +0000

People are dying in needless accidents on British farms. That’s why, a year into the Make the Promise campaign, it’s still crucial that more farmers make the promise to come home safely.

Cheshire oil worker paralysed

HSE — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:15:52 +0000

Stephen Rizzotti’s life changed forever on 9 February 2007 when he was paralysed from the waist down at a Shell oil refinery.

Watch and listen as Steve tells his tragic story

Stress at work – are you dealing with it?

HSE — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:00:12 +0000

Stress affects people in different ways. If it’s not spotted or understood, it can lead to more physical and mental problems.

Help to deal with stress

HSE in Scotland – free news and updates

HSE — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:01:43 +0000

Get regular news and updates about health and safety in Scotland for free by email.

Subscribe to the HSE in Scotland eBulletin

£50,000 fine after man crushed to death by scrapyard claw

HSE — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:38:29 +0000

The death of a man crushed by a scrapyard grab claw has prompted a prosecution by HSE and a £50,000 fine.

Read ‘£50,000 fine after man crushed to death by scrapyard claw’ press release

Food retailer fined after worker suffers severe injuries

HSE — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:00:12 +0000

A major food retailer was fined after an employee was knocked unconscious and severely injured following a four metre fall at a Wembley warehouse.

Read ‘Food retailer fined after worker suffers severe injuries’ press release

Central Scotland stoneworkers safety event aims to clear the air

HSE — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:15:48 +0000

Construction workers in central Scotland are being invited to an event this Monday (30 November) to find out more about protecting themselves from Silicosis – a potentially lethal lung disease caused by breathing in stone dust.

Read ’stoneworkers safety event aims to clear the air’ press release

Scaffolding business fined after worker falls through roof

HSE — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:40:55 +0000

A scaffolding business was today fined for health and safety breaches after a worker fell more than 10 metres through a roof.

Read ‘Scaffolding business fined after worker falls through roof’ press release

Company fined after wall collapses on Wigan worker

HSE — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:20:56 +0000

A construction company in Leigh has been ordered to pay £11,517 after one of its workers was seriously injured when a wall collapsed on him in Wigan.

HSE prosecuted Hughes Brothers Building & Joinery Ltd following the incident at its site on Millers Lane in Platt Bridge.

View press release ‘Company fined after wall collapses on Wigan worker’

HSE consults on EU artificial light regulations

HSE — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:13:16 +0000

HSE has today released a consultation document outlining how it plans to implement a European Union (EU) Directive to protect workers from hazardous sources of artificial light.

Intense sources of artificial light in the workplace, particularly from UV radiation and powerful lasers can harm the eyes and skin of workers and need to be properly managed.

View press release ‘HSE consults on EU artificial light regulations’

Statistics – big improvements in Britain’s record

HSE — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:16:34 +0000

Britain became a healthier and safer place to work last year, according to figures released today by HSE.

Statistics show there has been a significant reduction in the numbers of people killed, injured or suffering work related ill-health from April 2008 to March 2009.

Statistics press release