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 →
In February 2009, environmental health officers (EHOs) from Blackpool Council carried out a routine safety inspection at the football club’s Bloomfield Road stadium. The council discovered the club had failed to carry out a risk assessment, or create a written health and safety policy, to cover non-match days. The club was issued an Improvement Notice on 3 March and given… read more →
A company has been fined £27,500 and ordered to pay costs of £10,700, at Southampton Crown Court, after pleading guilty to to three breaches of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (as amended) 2002. Prysmian Cables and Systems Limited had pleaded guilty to charges relating to incidents which took place between 3rd January 2006 and 17th March 2008,… read more →
A new survey has revealed that just over 50% of UK businesses regard themselves as at “high risk” or “very high risk” of having their operations affected by the swine flu outbreak and in the light of this threat, 80% of companies are reviewing continuity planning. However, law firm DLA Piper, which carried out the survey, has warned that significant… read more →
A national pub group has been ordered to pay over £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation following a prosecution brought by the London Fire Brigade. Punch Pub Company Limited (formerly known as Spirit Group Limited) admitted guilt on two contraventions of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Sentencing occurred on… read more →
Around 850 people were evacuated from a hotel in Folkstone following a fire which started in a second floor guest room. Fire crews attending the Burstin Grand hotel in Folkstone last month were confronted with a heavily smoke logged guest room and corridor on the second floor of the eight-storey building. At its height, five fire appliances along with 35… read more →
Details of the enforcement notices relating to three blocks of flats owned by Southwark Council and issued last month by London Fire Brigade have been made available. The notices relate to Marie Curie House, which is next door to Lakanal House where six people died in a fire in July, and Castlemead and Perronet – two other blocks in the… read more →
The father of one of the Camberwell tower block fire victims today called for “justice to be done” after details emerged of fire regulation breaches by Southwark council. Documents reveal that Southwark failed to carry out a ‘sufficient’ fire risk assessment on three blocks similar to Lakanal House, where six people died on 03 July 2009. Phillip Hickman, whose daughter… read more →
Deansfield High School in Wolverhampton employed Making Learning Work Ltd of Brewood, Stafford in 2005 to locate extended work experience placements for 32 pupils at a cost of £650 each. Today the company pleaded guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was given one year’s conditional discharge and ordered to pay… read more →
