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Construction companies warned about need for safe systems of work
The HSE is warning construction companies to ensure they provide safe systems of work after part of a man's leg was amputated when a tipper truck fell onto him, trapping him against a pile of brick rubble. M.J.Curle Ltd was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,500 at Shrewsbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to breach...
Case | 10 Dec 2008
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Construction firms warned about trench collapse dangers
A building firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker was injured and trapped for more than two hours when the trench he was in collapsed. Vickers Construction Limited, of Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, was this week also ordered to pay costs of £3,178.10 at Darlington Magistrates' Court after it pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The court heard how on 25 November 2008, an excavator was being used to ...
Case | 10 Mar 2010
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Construction company fined after floor collapse
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning construction businesses to ensure that they have safe systems of work in place following the sentencing of a company after a floor collapsed at a building site in Park Avenue, Bromley, injuring four workers. The men suffered various injuries including spinal fractures, broken shoulders, fractured ribs and cuts ...
Case | 25 Jan 2008
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Construction company fined for injury to contractor
A Northamptonshire construction company has been fined £150,000 after an accident involving a visiting IT contractor who suffered a serious multiple fracture of his left leg, where he was hit by a reversing forklift truck on company premises.Bill Williams, aged 60, was following a designated pedestrian walkway line when a forkli...
News | 13 Sep 2007
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Company fined after worker is electrocuted by overhead power line
...icient risk assessment would have identified the danger and the necessary control measures, and a safe system of work would have ensured the safety of the employees. "Despite receiving a warning from an electricity linesman who witnessed work being carried out under the lines just days before, the construction of the polytunnel’s metal frames continued. "Work which risks contact with overhead power lines should not take place within nine metres either side of a live power line. If it was not possible for the line to have been de-energised for the duration of the work, the polytunnels should not have...
Case | 29 May 2009
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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
...of the UK. Over the last ten years there have been between 270 and 300 involuntary workplace-related deaths in the country every year. However the most recent figures available show a drop in the number of deaths to 212 in the year to 31 March with more than half of these deaths being in farming or construction. Concern is still rife amongst unions, though, that successful prosecutions are still too rare and fines imposed are at `insulting levels.' The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill was passed into law in July and creates a new offence of corporate manslaughter in England, Wales and No...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2007
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Survival of the fit note?
...eriod of renewed industrial unrest, strike law reform might not be far off says employment expert, Rebecca Hill of Blandy and Blandy. 3. Refresher 08 CASE LAW Shell UK Limited fined £1.24m over the explosion and fire at the Bacton gas terminal; and a property developer prosecuted after a foreign construction worker is buried alive. Revisit key topics from the Managing Safely course 14 July 2011, London 16 LEGAL UPDATE As communication technology advances, the law of defamation has been in danger of becoming obsolete; and proposals to encourage a more flexible approach to work. COntinuinG PROfessiOna...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. © Workplace Law Group 2009 www.workplacelaw.net 7 Cdm regulations WoRkShop Central London tuesday, 20 october 2009 LAtESt INfoRmAtIoN oN: The requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 The role of the CDM Coordinator (CDMC) Managing contractors The requirements of Pre-Construction Health and Safety information and the Construction phase plan Understanding the concept of Construction (Design and Management) Comment | Is modern technolo...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Employers Could Face Risk of Criminal Proceedings during the Firefighters’ Strike
... in management, according to law firm Nabarro Nathanson. Ray Clarke of Nabarro Nathanson explains: "There is a clear duty on management to assess the increased risks with reduced fire service cover, particularly in regard to rescue, and implement appropriate measures accordingly. For managers on construction sites, the Health and Safety plan should be reviewed and supplementary arrangements put in hand without delay." Particular activities that should be considered are those in deep excavations, working at height with safety harnesses, confined spaces and unoccupied buildings; or where specialised r...
News | 29 Nov 2002
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Open for Business
... Suzanne McMinn. 27 SCREEN TEST Michael Stephens and Norman Mortell on why organisations that use employment agencies must ensure they have robust screening processes and policies in place. 08 CASE LAW TV documentary footage has been used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work, following the death of an employee. 40 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on fire. 16 LEGAL UPDATE Common Commencement Date: 6 April 2010 listings; employers have just under a year to prepare for the extension to statutory paternity leave and pay; and employment regulat...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
... location, business operation or risk horizon that applies." for any disruption caused before, during or after the games, albeit related to the geographic location, business operation or risk horizon that applies. In this sense there is a difference between pandemic influenza and the games, as many companies might be unaffected by the latter, but we will all be affected by the former; however, the BC planning concept remains the same. Let's take just one big threat that's out there now. I can well remember the day in July 2005 when it was announced London won the games for 2012. The cheer from Trafalga...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Euromillions
...t European health and safety giveaway. 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates taking place in October and November. 12 So what does the week involve? What's in it for you? And haven't we heard all this before anyway ...? 19 NETWoRK 19 hARD hATS: DOES COLOuR mATTER? Network Rail recently removed construction workers from the railway track because they were breaking site safety rules by wearing white, instead of blue, hard hats. So was this sensible? Workplace Law Network members give their thoughts. 10 CASE LAW n Worker falls in computer server room who is to blame? n Nightclub failed to risk asses...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
...hose involved in the production and management of from 1 July Energy performance hazardous waste. The new guidance puts the onus on producers of hazardous waste Certificates will be required for to ensure their outputs are properly classified and treated, and clearly sets out the legal buildings in construction, sale or rent obligations of waste management operators to reflect recent changes in the coding, (other than dwellings) with a floor area treatment, recovery and disposal of hazardous waste. of over 2,500m2. The focus of enforcement action by the Environment Agency will be on those who mis14335 des...
Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008
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Killing time
...ncil may have to pay out millions of pounds in back pay and the outcome will have major implications for the council's controversial `single status' pay package. 11741 Energy Performance Certificates will be required by a wider range of commercial buildings during 2008. EPCs will be required on construction, sale or rent of commercial buildings over 10,000m2 from 6 April 2008; over 2,500m2 from 1 July 2008; and all other non-dwellings from 1 October 2008. 13241 The Energy Performance of Buildings 2008: special report provides an indepth insight into the implications of key developments in energy manag...
Magazine issue | 27 Feb 2008
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Company fined £100,000 after employee killed by vehicle
...at Work Act 1974, Section 2 (1), failing to ensure the safety of an employee by the provision of safe working systems.The court heard that employee Joshua Beswick died on 1 September 2004 while walking across the company's yard at Ditton Road, Widnes. The company reclaims building materials for the construction industry.The resulting fine from the accident has sparked the HSE into warning employers about the dangers of moving vehicles in the workplace.HSE Inspector John McGrellis said: "Joshua Beswick, a 20-year-old labourer was killed instantly when he was struck by a wheeled loader. This was a totally a...
News | 24 Sep 2007
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H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?
...drive him to appointments? Legal experts offer their views on the implications of recent case law for employers P26 Technical guidance 28 Analysis 34 In-depth legal guidance on: giving employers the Bill for violent crime; difficult personalities: a fair reason for dismissal?; and Housing Grants, Construction Regeneration Act 1996: the implications for FMs Is the gender pay gap actually decreasing? 3 workplacelaw My passion Our passion? To make life easier for Clive By being a member of the Workplace Law Network Clive is part of the fast growing online community for workplace managers in the UK. Why...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2006
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...will qualify for National Insurance and income tax relief, capped at £50 per week. 4974 5329 · The General Election is expected to take place in May 2005, the result of which will determine whether promises made by the Government in the Queen's Speech 2004 will be followed through. 5434 · The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 will be implemented on 6 April. 5481 25th Working mothers are to be offered an extra three months' paid maternity leave under plans in a consultation published in February by Trade 15th Employers will no longer be allowed to sack someone ...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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Directors' responsibilities for health and safety
...al Asda Stores Balfour Beatty British Institute of Facilities Management Casella Winton Centre for Corporate Accountability CMS Cameron McKenna Computer Exchange Disability Rights Commission East West Developments Employment Relations Solicitors EMS Consulting Endemol UK plc Enron Eversheds Farrans Construction Ltd Greenwoods HSE Keymark Services MacRoberts Martineau Johnson MG Rover Group Ltd Micromuse Ltd Mills & Reeve Morrison Construction Services Ltd MRUK Research Nabarro Nathanson Network Appliance North of England Zoological Society Osborne Clarke Railtrack Royal National Institute for Deaf People ...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2005
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Face facts: how much do you really know about disability legislation?
...est, over two years after the introduction of Approved Document L2, according to the Building Research Establishment. All new non-domestic buildings have to demonstrate that they are airtight, either by reviewing designs or by putting the building through an airtightness test in the final stages of construction. The access provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 come into effect on 1 October, requiring service providers to take reasonable steps to modify physical features of premises that make it impossible or unreasonably difficult for disabled people to use the service. 398 Corporate kill...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2004
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...nation to help create a better future for us all. NEBOSH NATIONAL GENERAL CERTIFICATE Choose from one of four study modes to suit your individual needs: 1. Classroom 27 Sept9 Dec 2011 2. Blended 20 Sept9 Dec 2011 3. Fast-track 9 May6 June 2011 4. distance learning Study when you want NEBOSH CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATE Choose from one of two study modes to suit your individual needs: 1. Fast-track 2. Classroom 16 May3 Jun 2011 14 Sept9 Nov 2011 NEBOSH FIRE CERTIFICATE 1. Fast-track 37 October 2011 Workplace Law Magazine is published six times a year by Workplace Law Group. It is available free...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
