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Construction company’s health and safety fine increased eight-fold
Scottish judges have substantially increased a fine payable by a construction company convicted last year of health and safety offences. Construction firm Discovery Homes (Scotland) Ltd were originally fined £5,000 following the death of Polish worker, Andrezej Freitag, in 2008 but now have to pay eight times the amount. At the original hearing in June 2009, the company was...
Case | 30 Jun 2010
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Government calls for better construction site health and safety
John Prescott has demanded that the construction industry drastically improves its health and safety record by signing up to government targets, speaking at the HSC's Construction Safety Summit Conference. The targets require the construction industry over the next four years to cut fatalities and serious injuries by 40 per cent (10 per cent each...
News | 28 Feb 2001
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Agencies accused of ‘flouting’ health and safety rules
Construction union, UCATT, has accused employment agencies of 'flouting' health and safety rules. It is now calling for the HSE to take action. UCATT officials say they have become increasingly 'alarmed' that many employment agencies require construction workers to supply their own Personal Protective Eq...
News | 18 Mar 2011
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...e efforts to register with us should not be concerned about facing fines." According to the Environment Agency, the top ten sectors affected by the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme will be: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Engineering Plastics / chemicals Public sector Packaging / paper / board Estates / construction / real estate Hotels / restaurants Steel Food manufacturing Retail Printing In general, a public sector entity designated as a `public authority' under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 and the Freedom of Information (FOI(S)) Act (Scotland) 2002 will participate in the CRC on the basis of ...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Health and safety review: Mixed reactions
...seem to make up their own rules and we get all the crazy stories.’’ In a Telegraph article, employers also warned against office workers being forgotten in the health and safety debate, citing examples such as RSI, trips and slips and electrocution. James Retallack, Compliance Director at construction firm Aggregate Industries, told the paper: “I don’t think you can or should separate offices from any other workplace. People can injure themselves just as easily in an office as in a factory or on a construction site.”
News | 15 Jun 2010
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TV documentary used to convict firm of health and safety offences
Footage filmed for a TV documentary about medics has been used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work after the death of a 25-year-old. Regentford Ltd, of Hackney, was yesterday fined £250,000 after being convicted of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, following an eight-day trial at Croydon Crown Court. It was also ordered to pay costs of £71,603.01...
Case | 7 Apr 2010
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Recession hasn’t affected health and safety, says CIOB
New research from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) suggests that 85% of senior level construction professionals don't believe the recession has affected the level of health and safety compliance in their company. Of the 1,260 respondents that took part in the CIOB's research, 35.7% also stated that their company had increased spending on health and safety (including training) over the la...
News | 25 Nov 2009
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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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Health and safety fatality prosecution thrown out of court
...court last month when the judge held that there was “not a shred of evidence that there was anything to be criticised in the actions of the defendants”.Two large engineering companies were being tried under section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA) and Regulation 10 of the Construction (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSWR) for failing to ensure the safety of a worker who died during the dismantling of a temporary working platform in the River Thames in November 2002.The deceased contravened safety procedures when he climbed out of a guard-railed area carrying heavy...
Case | 12 May 2009
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BBC Panorama: health and safety a laughing stock?
...out ludicrous reports of policemen stopping motorists for laughing in their cars, or council workers deeply offending mourners by desecrating unstable gravestones with safety tape and warning notices. Yet, equally, the news is also full of stories of employees who have died whilst working on unsafe construction sites, migrant workers whose gangmasters have complete disregard for health and safety and other similarly tragic accidents that could have been avoided if the so-called over-zealous all-pervading health and safety culture that the UK seems to have was actually effective.The HSE statistics speak fo...
News | 20 Apr 2009
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Construction health and safety reviews essential, warns HSE
Construction companies have been warned to keep health and safety under constant review throughout the life of a project. The warning comes after Sellafield Ltd and P C Richardson & Co. (Middlesbrough) Ltd (demolition contractors) were fined after pleading guilty at Carlisle Crown Court to charges brought by H...
Case | 25 Nov 2008
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HSE targets Bradford for health and safety blitz
...rs from the HSE and Bradford Council visited over 175 businesses recently as part of an intensive, two-week long, joint inspection initiative aimed at making the city a safer and healthier place in which to work.Between 20 and 31 October 2008, Bradford Council and the HSE focused their attention on construction sites and a wide range of inner city premises including retail outlets, garages, engineers and others. As a result, inspectors issued 75 improvement notices - where action was required to be taken as a matter of urgency to prevent an accident occurring---and 16 prohibition notices - where inspector...
News | 17 Nov 2008
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Spot checks at Derbyshire sites analyse health and safety
Levels of health and safety on construction sites across the High Peak area of Derbyshire are being reviewed in a new drive launched by the HSE today (22 September).Following an initiative earlier in the year – which discovered that almost half of the construction sites visited in the county were putting the lives of workers at risk – he...
News | 22 Sep 2008
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HSE focuses on health and safety of migrant workers
...h and safety laws towards migrant workers. The release of the guidance follows concerns that the health and safety of migrant workers is being overlooked; last year, an employer was fined and imprisoned for six months after a migrant worker was left permanently disabled following an accident on a construction site, and there have been calls for the Gangmasters Licensing Act to be extended to cover more employers that hire migrant workers. The HSE highlights that there is no simple answer to the question of who is responsible for the health and safety of migrant workers:“It depends on the relationshi...
News | 24 Jun 2008
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Health and Safety at Work Act: a positive burden on employers?
The first and second defendants were members of a group of companies, of which the third defendant was the managing director. The second defendant owned land on which a car park was being constructed. The first defendant employed workmen on the site. One of the workmen was asked by the foreman to drive a dumper truck with a load of spoil to a hole into which it was to be deposited. As the workman was driving down a ramp the dumper truck fell on its side, the workman was buried under the spoil and died. The first defendant was charged with cont...
Case | 15 Apr 2008
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Construction Health and Safety Tests Should be Compulsory, says CIOB
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is calling for a strategic approach to assessing risk on all construction sites, in response to the recent National Audit Office (NAO) inquiry into the UK’s construction industry health and safety records. The NAO report found that in 2002-2003, 226 workers in the UK were fatally injured. Of these, 71 were construction workers, the highest contribution to the overa...
News | 15 Jun 2004
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Health and safety investigations: from inspection to prosecution
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for health and safety enforcement in: the manufacturing industry; construction sites; farms; nuclear installations; schools; hospitals; and in any work involving the movement of dangerous goods or substances. The Environmental Health Officers (EHO) of a Local Authority is responsible for health and safety enforcement in: offices; s...
Briefing | 16 Oct 2007
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BBC Panorama: health and safety a laughing stock?
...ortionate but it is complex - sound not just a level on a db meter. You can't do sound level monitoring on an iphone and the noise regs when properly applied using a proper judgement of risk should never interfere with a cellists interpretation of Elgar. That there are serious uncontrolled risks on construction sites up and down the country going begging for a good H&S intervention whilst our artists are being assailed by over fussy regulation is a travesty and they are right to point this out. As professionals we need to avoid jerking our knee every time an investigation uses a slightly mickeytaking styl...
Comment | 22 Apr 2009
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Property development firm fined for five health and safety offences
A property development company which carried out construction work on a building without taking the required health and safety measures has been fined £3,000. Jomast Developments Ltd pleaded guilty at Teesside Magistrates Court to five offences in connection with work on a Victorian three-storey commercial building in Stockton, in June last year. The com...
Case | 27 Mar 2007
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Event management: health and safety considerations
...f the risk assessment appraisal and plan. Crush hazards - These can apply to crowd crushing or collapse of structures or equipment on to people. In a venue the owner would be responsible for ensuring that the correct number of people are allowed in to prevent crushing; at an outdoor event the construction of any structures should always be done by competent professional persons. Trip hazards - This includes trailing cables, cases left out or any sort of low-level blockage or obstacle that partly or wholly covers an access route. If somebody trips and injures themselves on these and you have pl...
News | 18 Aug 2006
