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Letter bombs – Checklist of what to look out for
Police are urging office workers to be alert to suspicious packages, after seven letter bombs were posted in England and Wales in three weeks, leaving six people with minor injuries. Assistant Chief Constable Anton Setchell has warned companies, organisations and individuals to take extra care when handling mail. Several of the devices were sent to companies with links to motoring. In ...
News | 8 Feb 2007
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Security breaches put employers on red alert
...lth and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 – requires employers to develop procedures to deal appropriately with serious and imminent danger, and appoint competent persons to activate those procedures. Employers must consider all potential dangers when drawing up these procedures, for example, fire, bomb threats and public disorders. High risk, low priority Peter Power of Visor Consultants – Workplace Law’s specialist advisor on crisis management – suggests that security is too far off the radar of many organisations. A good example of this is that when, earlier this year, MPs held a vo...
News | 16 Sep 2004
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Self-Storage Facilities: Bomb Scare Leads to Security Alert
The counter-terrorism squad is meeting with the country's biggest providers of storage to discuss security measures, following the discovery of half a ton of explosive fertiliser in London last week - reports Property Week. An agreement with the large storage providers is already in place, which
News | 5 Apr 2004
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...d London won the games for 2012. The cheer from Trafalgar Square could be heard in our office in Piccadilly. There was a particular frisson on the streets of the West End that day I have seldom, if ever, experienced before. However, just a few hours later, another sensation swept across London when bombs detonated on the transport system, killing 52 commuters and four suicide bombers. Comment | Buncefield: the legal ramifications Members and affiliates share their thoughts and opinions ... Buncefield: the legal ramifications Lesley Collins, Collins Solicitors Comment It was six a.m. on 11 Dece...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Questions over safety of underground following 7/7 attacks
According to allegations made before the Home Affairs Select Committee last Thursday, basic safety measures that would save lives in the event of another terror attack on the London Underground have not yet been implemented.More than three years after the bombings of 7 July 2005 in which 52 commuters died, the Tube is still unsafe, said MP Patrick Mercer, former Shadow Minister for Homeland Security.The bombings - targeting King's Cross, Russell Square, Edgware Road, Aldgate and Tavistock Square - also injured nearly 800 people. A report by the London As...
News | 17 Nov 2008
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Business continuity - Buncefield anniversary
...o be relocated as a consequence of the explosion, and 16 businesses had to relocate. When the incident happened it raised issues of business continuity for businesses and left many employers wondering if their business could have survived. This year has also seen the 1st anniversary of the London bombings and the threat of Bird Flu, both of which have also raised the issue of business continuity and how prepared businesses are for when things go wrong. All of these events have highlighted just how important business continuity actually is. As business continuity expert Peter Power, Managing Di...
News | 8 Dec 2006
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Legionella trial special
...the familiar world threatens to collapse. Source: Visor Consultants www.visorconsultants.com/disaster crisis and, adds Power, 'many of those crises are not what you might think. Nowadays they are very often `creeping catastrophes' that have little or nothing to do with buildings, systems, fires or bombs.' So while you're focussing your time on preparing for a terrorist attack or earthquake, perhaps it would be wiser to consider how the people in your workplace might manage a more realistic problem. The difficulty is, that in generating endless systems for dealing with potential crises, employers ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2005
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Stress management special
... is undoubtedly a problem for the workforce. The good news is that employers are at the very least aware of the issue, so with a few positive measures in place we should be able to do what Richard Reeves, author of Happy Mondays: putting the pleasure back into work advises, and stop the "rhetorical bombing of work." Kelly Mansfield E. kelly.mansfield@workplacelaw.net News Company index ACMS UK 8 Amery Lafarge 28 Anderson Leigh 33 Armani 27 Balfour Beatty Rail Infrastructure Services Ltd 27 Berwin Leighton Paisner 26, 29 British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) 17 Catch 22 19 CBI 6, 13 ...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
