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HSE publishes health and safety statistics for 2007-2008
New statistics published by the HSE...
News | 30 Oct 2008
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act received Royal Assent. So, after 35 years and huge changes in the way people in the UK work, is it still fit for purpose? That was a question we asked of many different experts this month and the answer was a resounding yes. Judith Hackitt, the Chair of the HSE, told Workplace Law Magazine that the HSAW is one of the best pieces of legislation ever written, and one she believes will eventually lead to the number of workplace deaths per year being in the tens rather than the hundreds (p.16). Nattasha Freeman, President of IOSH, was also full of praise for ...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Government intentions for health and safety regulation
...me of the important statements made on the DWP's initial findings. Implementation of EU directives The DWP expressed concern that the implementation of some EU directives in UK regulations has introduced a more absolute duty on employers. The Government responded: "The Government is satisfied that HSE complies fully with relevant policy in transposing directives into UK law. This includes minimising the burdens on business and avoiding going beyond the minimum necessary to comply with a directive unless there are exceptional circumstances. "The Government does not agree that the implementation o...
News analysis | 3 Jul 2008
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Health and safety 'not about hanging baskets'
...rse by their current or past work. 646,000 of these were new cases in the last 12 months; and36m days were lost overall (1.5 days per worker) – 30m due to work related ill health and 6m due to workplace injury.The Performance Report 2007 is available to download from the HSC website at http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/performance/performance2007.pdf To help reduce the burden of sickness absence, Workplace Law has published Occupational Health 2008: Making the business case – special report. The special report, written by Greta Thornbory, a leading occupational health and educational con...
News | 29 Nov 2007
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Health hazards: keeping a lid on panic
...shire Analytical Limited For further information on the cases featured visit www.workplacelaw.net/ news/case A Suffolk company has been fined £350,000 with £60,000 costs following an explosion at a factory. Storeys Industrial Products Ltd, formerly known as Wardle Storeys, was prosecuted by the HSE for a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The explosion on 29 November 2005, at its factory at Brantham Works in Suffolk, left 55-year-old worker John Balls with serious burns to his face, chest, abdomen and hands. 13369 8 www.workplacelaw.net 9 th annual Facili...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2008
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...llenge to raise £25,000. And this time, the journey is longer! NETWORK 22 PARTNER PROFILE: "I WAS MEANT TO BE A WEATHERMAN" School careers advisors told Dale Collins he should become a weatherman he would never get in anywhere to study law. Today he is a successful health and safety solicitor, HSE prosecutor, and Workplace Law Network advisor. 08 CASE LAW n Requirement for tidy hair is not discriminatory n Should DDA incorporate discrimination by association? TECHNICAL 28 LEGAL UPDATE In-depth technical guidance on: Transfer of undertakings 2006: solutions in outsourcing; Age discriminatio...
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
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Occupational health: an unnecessary expense?
...any's sickness absence in half. Take a close look at what occupational health has to offer: it covers a multitude of issues, from health surveillance to stress management. Caroline Merz looks at some of the services available, and asks what benefits they may bring. Justin Miller of B2 considers the HSE's latest Backs campaign, and the information it should have, but didn't, contain. Any business that is essentially manual in nature is going to come with its fair share of occupational health concerns. When you take a business like the Royal Mail -- one of the largest and most sophisticated distri...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2007
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Report on reducing construction deaths published
...e Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, said: "Despite the welcome recent fall in construction fatalities, any death or major injury is a tragedy for individuals, their families and their colleagues, and more work is needed to bring the number of accidents down." The latest provisional HSE fatal injury statistics for 2008/9 show 53 fatal injuries to construction workers were recorded, a fall from the 72 recorded in 2007/08 and from the average number of fatalities (70) for the previous five years. DWP will now be consulting with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the industry, tr...
News | 9 Jul 2009
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Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
...mployees should be treated as being at work. visit www.workplacelaw.net/cipd www.CartoonStock.com Missing some pieces? Latest | Case law Implications of the latest case law for employers ... Health and safety fatality prosecution thrown out of court An "unnecessary" prosecution brought by the HSE was thrown out of court 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...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...ath and what you can learn from it BUNCEFIELD spECIaL IssUE disaster Buncefield The planner Peter Power on Olympic-sized emergencies, and what to do about them. MAY 2009 Issue 47 Evacuate! The contingency plans to save city centre businesses in an emergency. The investigator Interview with the HSE's Buncefield investigator Taf Powell. Buncefield and your business: the lessons that all businesses can learn. Page 30 Legal update: REACH and facilities management. Page 26 plus: Legal calendar | Comment The data | Clinic | Client focus Case law and more ... Page 7 Page 22 Page 20 Contents ...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Headache? Try new and improved law and regulation!
...the UK. The Regulations would introduce no new requirements. 15974 All gas workers have to be signed up to the newly-named Gas Safe Register from 1 April 2009 under a new gas safety scheme. This replaces the requirement for all gas workers to be registered with CORGI. The scheme is overseen by the HSE. 17849 Despite concerns it would be postponed because of the economic downturn, the right to request flexible working is to be extended, as planned, to parents of children up to the age of 16. 17741 5 April The standard rate of statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay and statutory adopti...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2009
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Has the HSE lost its bite?
workplacelaw know-how to manage your workplace APRIL 2006 ISSUE 16 Health and safety policies and how to communicate them The Corporate Manslaughter Bill David Bergman on the CCA's objections Has the HSE lost its bite? The Executive's enforcement policy under attack Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Online Publisher of the Year 2005 - business IN EVERY ISSUE: EMPLOYMENT LAW, HEALTH & SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT workplac...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2006
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A new age?
...ssue 62 Belief system Amanda Trewhella assesses the implications of recent religious discrimination cases. Page 24 Virtual office Out with the old Suzanne McMinn with HR guidance on the end of the Default Retirement Age. Page 30 Comment: Those breaching safety rules must pay their way, says the HSE. Page 9 Legal update: The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 finally come into force in October. Page 16 Plus: News and case round up of the leading FM, health and safety and HR stories ... Social networking has grown faster than the policies to control it, says Roger Byard. Page 27 workplace law...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...of brand new films were just some of the ingredients that went into the 11th annual Workplace Law conference and dinner. 44 CLIENT FOCUS: WELL COORDINATED How Workplace Law helped a leading IT firm meet its health and safety requirements when preparing its new London office. teChniCaL 38 THE DATA HSE: In 2008/09 falls from height accounted for 35 fatal accidents at work and around 4,700 major injuries. They remain the single biggest cause of workplace deaths and one of the main causes of major injury. EAT: An experienced accountant, aged 50, who applied for jobs aimed at newly qualified account...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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2009: new beginnings
...hotography and illustration istockphoto.com www.CartoonStock.com production Controller Mike Horscroft publisher David Sharp T. 01223 431 050 Contributors David Walker Nick Hobden Sarah Robbins Bettina Rigg Steve Covell Neil Archibald Jamie Beatson Lucile Dume Elaine McIlroy Gordon Barr Pascal Faidy HSE Shepherd+Wedderburn Printed by Warwick Printing Caswell Road, Leamington Spa CV31 1QD Circulation 2,000 (ISSN 1745-0160) Workplace Law Magazine is published 10 times a year by Workplace Law Group. It is available free to premium members of the Workplace Law Network. For more information call our me...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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Euromillions
...ty can't just be common sense, says Craig Stuart. 09 WhAT'S IN A NAmE? `Naming and shaming' seems to have found its home in our penal system of the 21st century, says David Sharp. 24 ThE REGuLATED, ThE REGuLATOR AND ThE WORkfORCE: hEALTh AND SAfETy IN ThE 21ST CENTuRy Judith Hackitt, Chair of the HSE, chose the National Safety Symposium to give an address on how to make health and safety fit for the 21st century. Here is what she had to say... TEchNIcAl 28 LEGAL upDATE In-depth technical guidance on: risk assessment and sex discrimination; risk assessing an event away from the workplace; and c...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Evacuation versus invacuation
...ken), workers decided the only way to get out was to jump from the rig into the sea. Five men even jumped from the helideck, 175ft above the sea, to try and escape the blaze, but only two of them survived the fall. Following Piper Alpha, all offshore installations had to submit a safety case to the HSE to demonstrate, amongst other things, the provision and availability of temporary refuges (enclosed areas with 30 or more minutes of fire and smoke resistance) or `safe havens' for crew to wait in while the decision to evacuate is made, and provisions for safe evacuation and rescue. More than one r...
Magazine issue | 10 Jul 2008
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Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
...stomers. The attack took place in a small Scottish town, which is perhaps why the shop did not have a way of notifying the police in the event of an emergency except by phone. However, retail assistants are one of the groups of loneworkers most at risk, so what could have been done differently? The HSE has carried out research into loneworking by speaking to various organisations about their policies. These case studies found that good communication and sharing of information between employees and external organisations was seen as essential. This sharing of information included liaising with pol...
Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008
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Facefacts: The real cost of social networking to your business
...Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). 8102 NOVEMBER n Changes to Security Industry Authority (SIA) licensing in Scotland are implemented: From November 2007, it will be illegal to work as an operative in a designated security sector in Scotland without a front-line SIA licence. 11050 n The HSE's "Falls From Vehicles" campaign starts: The "Falls From Vehicles" campaign will take place from October to December 2007, and is being launched to cut the numbers of injuries and deaths caused by falls from vehicles across all industries, which costs British businesses nearly £37 in human and eco...
Magazine issue | 16 Oct 2007
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Contractors: are you watching them?
...d fell to his nd guilty vent. The client was fou fragile plus costs for failing and fined £27,000 ormation and to provide adequate inf actor was found supervision. The contr 0 plus costs for guilty and fined £3,00 aightforward failing to implement str s. controls and safeguard e Use of Source: HSE guidanc ponsibility. contractors: a joint res w workplacelaw workplacelaw 9 a a responsibilities be written into the contract? Susan Cha of Kennedys comments, "Work undertaken by a contractor is usually covered in a contract. It is good practice for health and safety responsibilities to be writt...
Magazine issue | 16 May 2007
