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HSE warning follows several incidents involving asbestos
The HSE in North Wales is warning those people who are commissioning refurbishment work to ensure there is no asbestos present before works starts. HSE inspectors have investigated a number of incidents in recent months where contractors have disturbed asbestos while carrying out refurbishment work. Site o...
News | 3 Dec 2008
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HSE warning follows several incidents involving asbestos
The survey methodology for pre-refurbishment work has been in place in HSE document MDHS100 since 2001. UKAS accreditation to ISO 17020, the standard survey companies must comply with to demonstrate competence has been available since this time too. Regulation 4 of the control of asbestos regulations 2002, which obliges dutyholders to have an asbestos management plan has ...
Comment | 4 Dec 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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Survival of the fit note?
... Law IOSH Managing Safely Certificate Choose from one of three study modes to suit your individual needs: 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates for summer 2011. heaLth and safety, fM and enViROnMent uPdate 07 NEWS The Government spells out its aims to make the UK a 'zero waste' economy; and the HSE explores relationship between the woodworking industry and nasal cancer. 27 14 CASE LAW Employee refused time off to visit mosque was not discriminated against; and former intern wins right to pay. 34 27 UNRESOLVED ISSUE? The Employment Lawyers Association has some key concerns on the proposals i...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...M, health and safety and HR stories ... The Warwickshire case demonstrates that fire prevention is needed more than ever. Page 42 Contents In this issue ... Latest 05 EDITORIAL Facing the future. 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates for 2011. heaLth and saFety and enViROnMent uPdate 07 NEWS HSE delivery plan includes charging regime from April 2012; and the Waste Regulations 2011 have now taken effect in England and Wales. 9 15 COMMENT The Equality Act's `costly dual discrimination rules' have been dropped by the Government as part of a drive to cut down on red tape, but does that expose...
Magazine issue | 3 May 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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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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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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Killing time
...the organisation as a whole. Find out how the organisation has essentially reinvented itself from p. 26. Returning to practicalities briefly, key to how the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act will actually work in practice, is in its enforcement and investigation. It appears that the HSE will not be a prosecuting authority for Corporate Manslaughter. With the weight of investigation on the shoulders of the police, there are considerable implications for how this responsibility will be managed in terms of the resources and finances of the police service. At a recent corporate mansla...
Magazine issue | 27 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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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
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Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?
...uction of the Temporary (Agency) Workers Directive. 5145/5240/4925/5551/5516/5571 june issued proposals to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR) and the Health and Safety (Consultation with Employees) Regulations 1996 (HSCER).The proposals can be viewed at: www.hse.gov.uk. The closing date for comments is 18 May. 21st The Workplace Law Summer School 2005 is taking place on 21-22 June, offering practical expertise in employment law, human resources, management development, health and safety, and premises management issues, in a relaxed and friendly learning e...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2005
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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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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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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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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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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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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
...rding to where you are in the world. Neil Archibald reports. 8 workplacelaw kp oc ist o .c to ho m I n many developed countries health and safety legislation sets minimum standards of what is expected of an employer by way of safeguarding a worker's rights while in the workplace. In the UK the HSE has undertaken research revealing that 70% of all workplace accidents are the direct result of management failings and the same percentage of deaths and serious injuries are avoidable. It also estimates that some 80% of workplace deaths involve some form of human factor. Geoffrey Podger, Chief Exec...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 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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Mug’s game? Excessive risk aversion
...g to wear goggles to play conkers. As well as proving fodder for people to shake their head and ask "where has common sense gone?" they raise the interesting question: when it comes to health and safety how far is too far? Why are employers going to seemingly extreme lengths in order to do what the HSE itself admits is impossible, namely the eradication of all risk? Health and Safety Consultant Bill Scholes believes it is down to a growing fear of being sued. As one Workplace Law Network member commented in our online forum: "the problem is because of our fear of not doing enough in this litigiou...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2006
