The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging service providers to have safe procedures in place for loading and unloading wheelchairs and mobility scooters, following the death of a motorised scooter user. Southwark Council of Peckham Road, London today pleaded guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 at the City of London… read more →
A fire in a shopping mall in Vilnius, Lithuania, was extinguished by a sprinkler system. The fire began in a deep fat fryer in the Chilli China restaurant in the Akropolis shopping mall on Tuesday, 6th October. The fryer was not fitted with a local suppression system so the fire got into the duct, which was coated with fat. It… read more →
Company directors are being reminded they must take their responsibilities for health and safety seriously and not “hide behind the organisation” following the case of a director of a pet food company who has been fined £10,000 for breaches of health and safety law after a worker was crushed to death. John O’Connor, who worked at the Butcher’s Pet Care… read more →
Two landlords from Haringey, London were sentenced to 6 months in prison and ordered to pay £5000 costs each following a successful prosecution by the London Fire Brigade. The prosecutions followed a fire on 31 March 2007, in a house that had been converted into bedsits. After the fire, safety inspectors from the London Fire Brigade found a number of… read more →
A school has been ordered to pay £19,000 after a 16-year-old girl lost most of her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during a school art lesson. The teenager was attempting to make a sculpture of her own hands during a lesson in January 2007 when the horrific accident happened, Boston Magistrates’ Court… read more →
Businesses are being warned to take correct precautions when their staff work at height, after a roofer sustained serious head injuries when he fell nearly four metres through a roof he was working on. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (25 September) successfully prosecuted 1st Response Roofing Ltd, of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, for three safety breaches over the… read more →
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today warned of the dangers of working on fragile roofs, following the conviction of a Lancashire-based company and a director for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The warning follows a serious incident in which Mr Lucasz Czuba, 26, of Longbenton, Newcastle fell seven metres whilst carrying out refurbishment work… read more →
The crushing of a vehicle spray painter has led to a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution that concluded today. North Kent Shotblasting Ltd, of Northfleet, in Kent was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court today (Tuesday 29 September 2009) following the death of Nigel Harrison on 20 October 2006. The death occurred at North Kent Shotblasting’s Grove Road site where… read more →
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to implement and maintain safe systems of work and to offer full training to staff to ensure that the health and safety of employees is not put at risk. This follows the sentencing on Friday (25 September) of Delico Ltd at Aylesbury Crown Court. The company was prosecuted after a cleaner… read more →
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning that care needs to be taken when using ride-on mowing machines following a court prosecution of an employer. A council employee fell from a ride-on mower onto a park bench on 21 may 2008, breaking two ribs and suffering a compressed lung. He was forced to stay off work for 11 weeks and… read more →
