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Hundreds break fire safety rules

Enter your comment here...It really comes as no surprise whatsoever to those of us who have been involved in firefighting and fire safety enforcement for the last 30+ years to find that there are unscrupulous landlords who will not spend one penny in providing fire safety measures within their properties. It was a battle when the Fire Brigades enforced the standards..................... Self Compliance ?? Don...

Comment | 2 Apr 2008
Hundreds break fire safety rules

One of the main problems being encountered in all tourist areas is the massive number of B&B premises that did not come under the Fire Precautions Act, apart from Section 10, that now are fully encompassed within both the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and Part 3 of the Fire (Scotland) Act. This is more of a problem than premises where a standard had been set, all be it very poor in some instances, than those where there w...

Comment | 1 Apr 2008
Hundreds break fire safety rules

Is it just Fire Safety (assume residential?) or healthnsafety - such as - how safe are the Blackpool Rides???!

Comment | 1 Apr 2008
Hundreds break fire safety rules

I note that Patrick has indicated that "Fortunately there has not been a major incident as yet to call into question the change s made to the Fire Precautions Act and subsequent legislation" - I think that the Penhallow and Atherstone on Stour Fires should make us think very deeply about these changes and if they were really for the better - only time will tell. Iain has also indicated that there is also a problem with the number of B&B esta...

Comment | 2 Apr 2008
Hundreds break fire safety rules

This was a foreseeable risk having removed the requirement for fire certificates and dependance upon landlords etc having to conduct their own fire risk assessment. Fortunately there has not been a major incident as yet to call into question the change s made to the Fire Precautions Act and subsequent legislation. I am sure this issue is widespread across the who...

Comment | 1 Apr 2008
Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act

...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 the Act, going so far as to call it "a truly brilliant piece of legislation, which has contributed to saving many thousands of lives." (p.23). Of course they would say that, you may think, given the professional bodies they re...

Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
Euromillions

... working in environmental consultancy. Some 20 years later he is the Practice Manager of the asbestos unit at consultants Bureau Veritas. David Sharp traces his hazardous journey. 16 CONkERING SAfETy fEARS The World Conker Championships takes place in the village of Ashton each autumn and attracts hundreds of competitors from all over the world and has done since it was started in the village pub in 1965. More recently, overzealous health and safety has been blamed for taking the fun out of the conkers. But is this really the case? Claire Fuller spoke to Ashton Conker Club and IOSH to see how a co...

Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
Sweeping changes

...at Work etc. Act 1974 by putting the safety of patients, including Mrs Cabrera, at risk due to the unacceptable storage of drugs and the administration of drugs. It was also ordered to pay costs of £25,000. Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector, Liam Osborne, said: "This was an absolutely heartbreaking case to investigate. Mayra Cabrera needlessly died as a result of comprehensive management failings. Had the hospital done CASES IN BRIEF Warning over safety of night shift workers An international food company that supplies major UK supermarkets has been fined after a worker was hurt while cle...

Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
The world in your hands?

...elines state that, for the offence of Corporate Manslaughter, the appropriate fine will "seldom be less than £500,000 and may be measured in millions of pounds". In comparison, for HSWA offences that have caused death, the appropriate fine will "seldom be less than £100,000 and may be measured in hundreds of thousands of pounds or more". The consultation document also puts forward criteria for the Courts to use to assess the size of the fine, including how foreseeable was serious injury, how far short of the applicable www.workplacelaw.net Comment WILL NOT RETURN! Out of business conviction beco...

Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
The Diversity Dilemma

... 24083 Awareness week highlights importance of risk assessments This year's European Week for Safety and Health at Work (19-24 October) focused on the importance of risk assessments in the workplace. To mark the week, organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and its partners, hundreds of events and activities relating to safety and health took place throughout Europe, ranging from conferences to training sessions and inter-company events. A new report Assessment, elimination and substantial reduction of occupational risks has also been published to mark the week. The repor...

Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
Changes to Workplace Law Magazine

...re considered to be high risk in respect to fire safety. This is due to the sensitive nature of the occupants (sleeping residents, the elderly, the disabled, young children and potentially those under the influence of drugs or alcohol) When you are responsible for a property portfolio consisting of hundreds of HMO, it would be vastly expensive to `replace' every single flat door or indeed install suitable fire detection into every property. It is critical therefore, for a strategy of implementation to be prepared over a period of time, sometimes ten years plus. An established property `risk register' ...

Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth

...e and the demand for those skills." The new points-based system is designed to be transparent and objective and is based on the Australian system which has been very successful there in attracting the right migrants to the country. So why have such well-known corporate organisations, not to mention hundreds of other companies, large and small, already fallen foul of the law? "The biggest considerations for employers are the legal obligations, which have been transferred over to them as stakeholders," explains Morris. "In practice this means for HR it's important to recognise this is a self-certified s...

Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
Reality bites: managing in a recession

... did not pay a penny. After April, this was cut, meaning that anyone who owns empty properties has to pay full rates on them -- a massive leap for both, but especially for the industrial sector. This is a highly unfair tax burden that is hurting both individuals and larger firms, threatening to put hundreds out of business and see many jobs lost. Worst of all, it is killing off regeneration projects by making them riskier and making a bad situation even worse as firms looking to survive the recession are now kicked in the teeth over premises they have no use for. Local economies depend upon a steady s...

Magazine issue | 6 Nov 2008
Health hazards: keeping a lid on panic

...ure. Communicating in a crisis is harder! How, for example, would you communicate to your employees that a worker has a lung disease caused by your office printer? What action would you take if the media got hold of a story about asbestos being present in your premises, potentially exposing tens or hundreds of workers to the health hazards? Get it wrong and, not only will the press have a field day with your reputation, but existing employees could flee in fear of what else they might be exposed to, and, with your reputation in tatters, you would have serious trouble recruiting new staff. All this on ...

Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2008
Facefacts: The real cost of social networking to your business

... paid holiday entitlement, when general figures in millions or even billions of pounds are bandied about by government and lobby groups. But for some companies, especially smaller ones, eight days' extra holiday a year for every employee will mean an immediate hike in the wages bill of tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, as they are forced to find extra cover for those not in work. The reality is that many companies are already complying with the new maximum holiday entitlement if they offer employees four weeks' annual leave with eight paid public holidays. But for those that are not...

Magazine issue | 16 Oct 2007
Licence to… protect your workplace?

... against a company at no cost. Reasons for claims include unfair dismissal, discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages and equal pay. When asked, almost half of the 30 delegates who attended the mock tribunal admitted that they had been on the receiving end of a tribunal claim. Employers can incur hundreds or thousands of pounds in costs just defending a case and are unlikely to be able to reclaim their costs. Recent cases are highlighting the importance of employers being aware of tribunal deadlines and procedures; in one recent case a company had to pay an employee £49,000 simply because they did ...

Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2006
The year of living dangerously

... relation to workplace deaths, fire safety, smoking in the workplace, discrimination and stress (to name but a few) has been examined inside and out, and we are likely to see the conclusions of these discussions taking effect within the next 12 months. During 2005, the Workplace Law Network carried hundreds of news and case reports on all aspects of employment law, health and safety and premises management, and Workplace Law Magazine got to the heart of some of the most prominent issues affecting employers across the country. Looking back over the issues we've addressed, Katy Brown identifies some of ...

Magazine issue | 1 Dec 2005
Who's looking at you?

... be addressed to The Editor at Workplace Law Magazine, Second Floor Daedalus House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2RE Fax: 0870 777 8882 Email: kelly.mansfield@workplacelaw.net workplacelaw 7 istockphoto.com Who's viewing your data? We have entered the electronic era. Fraudsters no longer need to break into your premises to get their hands on your confidential data -- they can access it by connecting to the web in their own homes. Or perhaps one of your employees could kindly email it to them? Francis Davage reports 8 workplacelaw without access to our computer networks, internet and email prog...

Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2005
Religious beliefs: should employers cater for all faiths?

...E SENSE IN TODAY'S WORKPLACE mobile phone, in the UK we had just introduced the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and were in the throes of introducing the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Two weighty pieces of workplace legislation and, like the original brick-sized Dyna-Tac, built to last. Since then, hundreds of separate pieces of health and safety legislation have been introduced. As society, technology, and working practices have evolved, much of the legislation governing work in 1973 and before would not make sense in today's workplace Like the cellular radio communications device, the world has simp...

Magazine issue | 1 May 2005
2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead

... much to driving at work as it does to any other area of your business. David Sharp is MD of Workplace Law Group E. david.sharp@workplacelaw.net workplacelaw 17 Images: istockphoto.com 2004 a year in review During 2004, the Workplace Law Network's online information and advisory service carried hundreds of daily updated news and case reports on all aspects of employment law, health and safety, and premises management. Looking back through the annals of the Workplace Law archive, Kelly Mansfield identifies some of the more curious if not impactful cases from the last 12 months. You have been ...

Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004