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Companies warned to manage Legionnaires risk
Businesses have been warned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to be alert to the risks of Legionnaires Disease. The warning comes after the HSE called HM Prison Service to account over a case of Legionnaires Disease at Nottingham Prison. An inmate at Nottingham Prison was diagnosed with Legionnaires Disease on 8 March...
Case | 15 Jun 2009
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Companies using water cooling treatment warned about Legionnaires’ risk
...ive and up-to-date risk assessment in place and neither company had taken reasonable steps to control the potential spread of Legionella by assessing the risk or properly cleaning and maintaining the water cooling system. Employees had not been properly supervised. The management failings by both companies were present over a prolonged period of time, the investigation found. Eaton Ltd pleaded guilty and was fined £80,000 for breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Section 3(1) of the Act and ordered to pay £45,000 costs. Aegis Ltd was found guilty at a trial in ...
Case | 29 Jun 2011
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Care home fined £5,000 over Legionnaires' risk
A care home company has been fined £5,000 for failing to have the required precautions in place to control legionella bacteria. SJ Care Homes Ltd was prosecuted by the HSE after the company failed to comply with an enforcement notice issued at one of its nursing homes. HSE Inspector, Sandra Tomlinson, issued the notice after a routine visit to Beech...
Case | 8 Apr 2010
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
... push ahead with plans to introduce new dangerous dog laws, after a Glasgow postman was hospitalised following a savage attack by two Japanese Akita dogs. 22268 Although the number of new swine flu cases levelled off during the summer, as we go into the autumn a surge in cases has been predicted. "Companies should extend their current absence policy now to cover all types of absences and situations, advises David Woollcott, Senior HR Consultant. "They don't necessarily have to write a different policy but extend it; for example, an organisation with contingencies for flood or fire damage will already ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Licence to… protect your workplace?
...ing its mission to seek out those working illegally. Dianne Tranmer, SIA Assistant Director Compliance & Investigation said: "We will continue with our visits to ensure that only trained, qualified and fit and proper people are providing contracted security services. I would like to remind security companies to only deploy operatives lawfully, and for buyers of security services to verify that their security providers are operating within the law. Using unlicensed security operatives could damage your business reputation and your insurance cover may be affected". It's a difficult predicament for those ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2006
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
... fit staff are essential to ensuring a company remains efficient and profitable." Recent research commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions demonstrates that work is good for your health, so if it is good for the individual and good for the employer and the organisation, then it is worth companies investing some time and money into the health and wellbeing of employees. As the biggest single cause of sickness absence is stress-related conditions, it seems sensible to consider how best to reduce stress levels and provide a working environment that reduces stress and encourages positive, healt...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Health hazards: keeping a lid on panic
...reactions of your employees, your customers, and the media! An increasing amount of organisations are employing lone workers, in all areas of industry and business. Flexible Working Regulations have enabled employees to enjoy the benefits of working from home; today's 247 culture means that more companies are open around the clock; and greater automation in industry has meant a shift from the traditional 95 working day. Loneworking can be of great benefit to a business but it also has its problems. Health and safety issues that affect traditional employees still apply in some cases more so. ...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2008
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Contractors: are you watching them?
...reate `exclusion zones' around buildings? 19 Passport to good health and safety Caroline Holden of IOSH weighs up the pros and cons of health and safety passports. 34 Analysis Would you hire someone who was obese? 20 A human approach to contractor safety The majority of Britain's construction companies find themselves relying on personnel that are `employed' at arms length. Health and safety legislation is no less stringent in the duty of care it places on these companies but the obstacles that they must overcome to fulfil these duties differ considerably from those operating a more conventional ...
Magazine issue | 16 May 2007
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R v. Beckingham: case closed
... realistic prospect of manslaughter following Potters Bar crash In October 2005 the CPS announced that no manslaughter charges would be brought over the Potters Bar rail crash in which seven died and 76 were hurt. It concluded there was not a "realistic prospect of conviction" of any individuals or companies for gross negligence, manslaughter or other similarly serious charges over the crash. Paddington rail tragedy r manslaughte ped charges drop co beca compa me ny homicid to be charge the first Scot d with tish e (the S cu corpor ate ma cottish equiv lpable nslaugh a the dea ter) foll lent of th ow...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2006
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The sex issue
... from a complex article by the W.H.O on the disease itself. Nowhere has anyone taken the lead and thought about business continuity (well not that I could find). Your article was refreshing because someone had taken the time to look at what was needed and what should go into a risk assessment, what companies should be looking at. Of course writing a risk assessment isn't the end of it. The hard work comes trying to convince companies that the threat of the H5N1 may well have devastating effects on their business. I think it is fair to say the preparations should not prove expensive but the repercussion...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2006
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The year of living dangerously
...arly breaking the law? Craig Bowden This issue, the writer of the letter of the month will be rewarded with a Viking InterWorks USB Drive a small, removable, high-speed USB compatible data storage system using flash technology. The USB Drive allows effortless storage and file transfers via USB. COMPANIES IN THIS ISSUE... Archant Regional Ltd 19 Balfour Beatty 8,11,14, 25 Barclays 26 Bank of Scotland 34 BYL Training 21 Butler and Young Ltd 22 Centre for Corporate Responsibility 9, 10 Charles Russell 28 CIPD 19 CRE 19 CREDANT technologies 34 DEFRA 6 DRC 19 EOC 19 Fire Protection Association 20 F.S.T ...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2005
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Legionella trial special
...y to be charged with the offence in Britain. Had the council been found guilty of manslaughter, how, as a public-funded body, would it have been punished? Guidance on the Centre for Corporate Accountability's website advises that: `the only organisations that can be prosecuted for manslaughter are "companies". `Local councils have been established as "corporate bodies" by legislation section 2 of the Local Government Act 1972. As such, in relation to the offence of manslaughter, they can be treated just like any other company and the same principles of liability apply. `This means, in effect, that a...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2005
