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HSE warning after six year old's death at Tilbury
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to ensure they identify the risks in their workplace and manage them following the death of a six year-old boy at Tilbury Free Port, Essex. Port of Tilbury London Ltd was fined £100,000 (with £157,000 costs) at Croydon Crown Court after pleading guilty to breaches of Section...
Case | 9 Nov 2007
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HSE warns farmers to make sure machinery is properly guarded
The HSE has warned farmers and others using machinery to ensure guards are fitted, after a 16-year-old boy lost his thumb which was trapped in a potato grading machine at a Forfar farm. The warning came after the employer, Lumgair Brothers of Gask Farm, near Forfar, was fined £4,000 after pleading guilt...
Case | 6 Feb 2009
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HSE warns local authorities about maintenance following death of child
The HSE is urging local authorities to review how they maintain their railings and fences, following the death of 12 year-old girl. Vicky Thomas died after a section of fence at Osmaston Park in Derby collapsed on 12 May 2003. Thomas was playing on the six-foot high railings with two friends when a secti...
Case | 13 Feb 2007
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NHS Trust fined £75,000 after drug mix-up led to patient's death
An NHS Trust has been fined after a mother who had just given birth died when she was given the wrong drug. Great Western Hospitals NHS Trust was prosecuted by the HSE after 30-year-old Mayra Cabrera died at the Marlborough Road hospital in Swindon on 11 May 2004. Mrs Cabrera, who was also a nurse at the hospital, had just given birth to a boy, when she was wrongly given an epidural drug in her arm instead of a saline solution. She died an hour later followin...
Case | 20 May 2010
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...a single proposal that will reduce the high levels of workplace death, injuries and illness". For a full analysis of the Review, turn to p.18. 30840 NEWS IN BRIEf Time saving A new online risk assessment tool, which takes 20 minutes to help weigh up the hazards in offices, has been released by the HSE. Simplifying the risk assessment procedure for low hazard workplaces was one of the recommendations of Lord Young's health and safety review (see p.18). 30805 Live aid Employers are being urged to recognise first aid as part of their corporate social responsibility, not just as a legal requirement...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Warning over gas safety checks
...year-old suffered a heart attack due to lack of oxygen on the way to the hospital and died the following morning without regaining consciousness. He had worked as the tenant landlord at the pub for less than a month. The owner of the Aintree Hotel, Enterprise Inns plc, was prosecuted after a HSE investigation found that the fire may not have been serviced since 1979 and the chimney was completely blocked. The West Midlands based company, which owns approximately 7,700 pubs across the UK and has an annual turnover of £818 million, admitted breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Sa...
News | 6 Oct 2010
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Mental health charity fined after death of support worker
...d have been foreseen. "Mental Health Matters failed to identify and respond to the increasing risks to which Ashleigh Ewing was exposed in the course of her employment." But he added: "It cannot be said that the failings of Mental Health Matters caused Ashleigh Ewing's death." Mrs Pam Waldron, HSE’s Head of Operations said: "This is an unusual case which shows the need for employers to assess risks to employees who visit individuals in their homes and for arrangements to be reviewed when changes occur."We believe that if Mental Health Matters had carried out a risk assessment, it would hav...
Case | 2 Feb 2010
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Employee left paralysed after incident on farm
Farmers have been warned to ensure their workers are properly trained and machinery is regularly inspected and serviced, after a farm worker was permanently paralysed by a falling silage bale. The HSE prosecuted farmer Geoffrey Eccles after an incident at Shuttleworth House Farm in Burnley on 10 September 2007. A 21-year-old employee of Eccles suffered permanent paralysis from the waist down when he was crushed by a round silage bale weighing up to a tonne. HSE agricultural inspector Lisa Bailey...
Case | 15 Aug 2008
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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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Old git, or still work fit?
...d to concentrations of smoke several thousand times less that the smoker. In terms of inhaled carbon particulate, for instance, the occupational exposure limits are several times higher than those the anti-smoking lobby considers acceptable. Why? They have produced no palpable evidence, whereas the HSE (EMAS) has based its limits on seventy years of pathological evidence. If the objective is to reduce smoking-related disorders, then let's ban the sale of tobacco completely and have it over and done with. The target should surely be the smoker, rather than by-standers. It is the smoker's health th...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2006
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...Leisure 24 Department for Transport 7 Deutches Rotes Kreuz 26 Disability Rights Commission 6 Dundas & Wilson 26 DVLA 17 Environment Agency 14 Equal Opportunities Commission 6 Federation of Licensed Victuallers' Associations 20 Godfrey Davis 34 Greenwoods Solicitors LLP 5, 14, 28, 29 Hegarty & Co 18 HSE 6, 13, 17, 28, 29, 31 Investors in People 7 Jarvis Facilities Limited 27 Keith Bright Consultants 12 Kronospan Limited 27 Kiwk-fit 34 Kiwk Save 18 Lancashire Probation Service 24 LCC Support Services Limited 33 Leaseplan 33 Leicester City FC 18 MacRoberts Solicitors 12, 13, 15 Mills and Reeve 26, 3...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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The year of living dangerously
...e a legal requirement for all Public Space Surveillance CCTV operators (supplied under contract) to hold an SIA licence. 6145 11th The 2006 Safety & Health Expo, run by CMP at the Birmingham NEC arena, runs from 9-11 May 2006. The annual event is for safety and health professionals in the UK. The HSE's main Workplace Health and Safety Survey (WHASS) ends in May. Since October 2005 the HSE has sponsored a series of surveys that focus on a wide range of workplace factors as well as self-reports of work-related injury and illness. These surveys make up the WHASS programme. As a follow up to Ladder...
Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2005
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Scaffolding firm fine reminder of construction dangers
... his lungs, broke both wrists, broke two vertebrae and cracked another. He was in hospital for six weeks and will never be able to carry out any manual work again as his injuries have left him with considerable pain in his left leg and extremely weak wrists, which will require further surgery. An HSE investigation into the incident found the company did not prepare or survey the job properly at the outset and failed to supervise or train its employees adequately. Fred Lewis Scaffold Company Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fine...
Case | 27 Jan 2012
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It’s a WRAP
...using Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996) affecting construction contracts and impacts on both payment provisions in contracts and adjudication. 36140 recognised for its outstanding accredited online training services in the areas of health and safety, and environmental compliance. The HSE's public consultation on the proposed changes to the Control of Asbestos Regulations closes on 4 November. The consultation sets out the HSE's proposals to introduce revised Control of Asbestos Regulations to implement the changes required to comply with the European Commission's reasoned opinion ...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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Sweeping changes
...expert, talks to Sara Bean about the latest green challenges, and why it's important to define the meaning of sustainability. eMPLOyMent uPdate 13 NEWS Government action plan to end `excessive regulation'; and employees rate flexible working as highest priority. 45 END NOTE teChniCaL 38 THE DATA HSE: The Corporate Manslaughter Act has redefined the concept of sentencing with regard to health and safety breaches. 24 CONSTRUCTIVE THINKING Simon Toseland and Gary Plant on how the Altius vendor assessment scheme is meeting the aims of the `Safety Scheme in Procurement'. Richard Mills, CEO at Int...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
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Open for Business
... used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work after the death of an employee. Regentford Ltd was fined £250,000 after being convicted of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was ordered to pay costs of £71,603.01. When the HSE went to investigate the death of Balwinder Kumar, who was re-pointing brickwork when he fell from scaffolding, suffering severe head injuries in the first storey fall, the scaffolding Mr Kumar had been standing on had been removed. During the investigation it emerged that a BBC television crew film...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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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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The world in your hands?
...ions. 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 which determined there 45 END NOTE The passing of the Autism Act the UK...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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The Diversity Dilemma
...ealth at Work. 24 15 COMMENT While the passing of the Agency Workers Directive has been seen as a defeat for business, it could spell the end of the flexible workforce, says Rebecca McGuirk. timely update on the legal issues to consider when drafting or reviewing your alcohol and drugs policy. 22 HSE: Two fatalities occurred from Carbon Monoxide poisoning at a private property in Brecon; and vehicle movement assessments must be communicated to staff. 08 CASE LAW Workers and members of the public exposed to unacceptable levels of asbestos; and a building company fined £2,000 for burning waste ...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...bon Reduction Commitment 2010 and an explanation of how the Corporate Manslaughter Act addresses diseaserelated deaths. teCHNiCaL 30 ThE DATA EAT: Disability discrimination in that the employer had failed to make reasonable adjustments; and unfair dismissal for an unauthorised interview broadcast. HSE: Prosecutions for a fatality under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974; and imprisonment for Gross Negligence Manslaughter 37 END NOTE Having a disability doesn't automatically `qualify' someone to provide advice in the built environment, argues Jim Taylor, NRAC Access Consultant. In asso...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
