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Council fined for excess green waste
Nottinghamshire County Council has been fined for depositing green waste at two different sites in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. Neither of the sites had the benefit of a Waste Management Licence. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Environment Protection Act 1990. Nottinghamshire County Council ...
Case | 4 Dec 2007
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Mug’s game? Excessive risk aversion
...Attitudes to the tribunal process workplacelaw 3 4 workplacelaw workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 054 A mug's game? Would you pay a health and safety consultant £200 to produce a 17 page document highlighting the risks to your staff of making a cup of tea? East Hertfordshire Council has, and claims it was money well spent. But were the council taking a sensible precaution or was it a case of health and safety overkill? The story can now join ranks with others on excessive risk aversion including hanging baskets being banned in case they fall on someone, trapeze artists being m...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2006
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It’s a WRAP
...iation to help businesses prevent waste and recycle more. Recycling Minister, Lord Taylor, said: "This deal will bring much-needed relief for smaller businesses that want to do the right thing but are struggling to get a decent recycling service. For the first time we've got solid agreement between councils and businesses to make it easier and more cost-effective for smaller firms to recycle more and improve their resource efficiency." 36670 NEWS IN BRIEF Back to work Office workers have been urged to take action to avoid developing back problems as they spend longer at their desks than ever. The Br...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...he Comprehensive Spending Review, which has seen the deepest cuts to public services for decades. The public sector has been hardest hit, with a £81bn total cut in spending which will result in an estimated cut of 490,000 public sector jobs, and will affect anyone who avails themselves of Local Council services. Of concern to all employers is the news that the retirement age will rise from 65 to 66 by 2020, six years earlier than planned. Meanwhile, the spending review came just days after another Government report; that into health and safety carried out by Lord Young on behalf of the Coalition ...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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The world in your hands?
...ating and mechanical services company meet its duties under the CDM Regulations. 22 ThE PERSONNEL TOUCh Sara Bean talks to Ali Moran, HR Consultant for Workplace Law, and Chair of the new BIFM People Management Special Interest Group (SIG). emPLoyment uPdAte 13 NEWS Employers face tough 2010; and Council found in breach of the Data Protection Act. teChniCAL 38 ThE DATA HSE: Failure to implement control measures led to a firearms injury; lack of training led to care home fatality; and an analysis of failure to comply with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. EAT: Analysis of a recent case whic...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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The Diversity Dilemma
...not illegal. 22 THREE YEARS OF THE RRO The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into force on 1 October 2006. Fire management expert, Peter Reading, discusses its impact so far. 45 END NOTE With the make-or-break Copenhagen climate conference coming up, Philip Hardy, Green Party County Councillor, shares his views. TEChNiCAL 38 THE DATA EMPLOYMENT LAW: In two recent cases, the High Court and the Court of Appeal agreed that an employee is entitled to be accompanied to an internal disciplinary hearing by their lawyer. 24 I FEEL FINE Sara Bean talks to a Liverpoolbased charity about a new...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
... redundant; inquiry considers the representation and treatment of women in finance; and concerns at cost of Agency Workers Directive. 22 fULLER IDEAS Claire Fuller, former Workplace Law Magazine editor, talks to Sara Bean about her time at Workplace Law and how volunteering at the Scottish Refugee Council has helped her appreciation of UK employment laws and civil liberties. 38 DIARy Coming soon from Workplace Law. 32 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on key management issues. Booking line: 0871 777 8881 Buy online: www.workplacelaw.net/nebosh Please quote reference 1843 whe...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
...subject of furious debate across the European Union. The European Parliament has been pushing for the abolishment of the right to opt out, so that the absolute limit of 48 hour working weeks would apply across the whole of Europe, including the UK. This was contrary to the proposals of the European Council, that had voted for retention of the opt-out but with increased controls and restrictions over its use. The final round of conciliation, which took place at the end of April, after five years of discussions, failed to reach agreement. For the time being this means that the opt-out is here to stay. ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
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Stress management special
...Leighton Paisner 26, 29 British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) 17 Catch 22 19 CBI 6, 13 Citizens Advice Bureau 27 Cloisters 19 Champneys 1, 3, 11 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) 12 CMS Cameron McKenna 6, 8, 15 Criminal Records Bureau 8, 26 Crutes 18 Darwen Borough Council 26 Detica 8 Department for Education and Skills 8 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) 7 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) 6, 7, 8 Dundas & Wilson 7 Elmbridge Borough Council 8 ENTEC 8 European Commission 6, 30 Eversheds LLP 8, 30, 33 Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company 2...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Sweeping changes
...has become all too easy to find absurd examples of workplace `health and safety issues'. 46 DIARy Coming soon from Workplace Law. 14 CASE LAW Booking line: 0871 777 8881 Buy online: www.workplacelaw.net/iosh Please quote reference 1843 when booking. Equal pay case wins `millions' for Birmingham Council workers; and terms of Disability Discrimination Act redefined. 27 TEAM TACTICS Karen Plumbley-Jones and Bill Smith of Bond Pearce discuss employment issues to be tackled during the World 15 COMMENT The BA dispute: Is it being `militant' for employees to "We will fight them in the baggage holds; ...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
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2009: new beginnings
...w Regulations suggests that compulsory checks on air conditioning units would add to any 'green audit' of a building which could lead to an 80% reduction in a building's energy consumption. 17570 The European Court of justice ruling in the heyday case is expected. The case, brought by the National Council on Ageing (which operates under the names Age Concern and Heyday), claims that the UK's age discrimination legislation is in itself discriminatory as it does not apply to those over the age of 65, thereby allowing employers to impose a mandatory retirement age. 16963 16 January The health and Safe...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
