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Make sure scaffolding is safe, says HSE
...ised standards. Not only should those building scaffolds know what they are about, but there needs to be checks on how scaffolding is in fact set up - and of course scaffolds should be subject to regular inspection." The HSE is advising scaffolding companies to review their current practices to make sure that what they are doing is correct. The need to do so is particularly important when the recent severe wind conditions are taken into consideration.
Case | 5 Jan 2007
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Work at height warning after scaffolder killed
The HSE is urging employers and construction workers to make sure that they work safely at height following the death of a 31-year-old man. The man died after falling from scaffolding in the Hastings area on Monday 10th August. Construction has the largest number of fatal injuries of the main industry groups. In 2007/08 there were 72 fatal injuries in the ...
Case | 27 Aug 2009
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HSE inspection blitz catches 13 out of 15 sites
...used instead were found to be unsafe, without proper hand rails or toe boards.“ Wayne Crumpton, who also worked on the blitz, told Workplace Law Network: “It is about using the right kit for the job, and if you are using the right kit you have to use it properly. Use ladders for access, but make...
News | 13 Jun 2008
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Contractors: are you watching them?
...ter on the Beckingham defence team -- Mark Watson of Six Pump Court -- says on the issue of responsibility for health and safety: "The mere fact that you engage an expert contractor will not necessarily discharge your duty of care in that particular situation. "Therefore assurances such as `we will make health and safety our top priority' from a respected contractor does not necessarily mean that somebody thinking of engaging such a contractor can simply leave it to that contractor to sort out all of the relevant matters in relation to health and safety." This issue, we take an in-depth look at wh...
Magazine issue | 16 May 2007
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Open for Business
...d receive a penalty. The change is part of Lord Carter's aim of universal online filing by 2012, to help prevent fraud, administration time, and expense. HMRC is also introducing new penalties for late payment of PAYE. Under these changes, employers and contractors may incur penalties if they don't make payments of PAYE, National Insurance contributions, Construction Industry Scheme deductions and student loan deductions on time, and in full. Penalties will be calculated as a percentage of the late amount and, for in-year payments, the percentage charged increases as the number of late payments in...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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Killing time
...from 6 April 2008, when they will apply to companies employing between 50 and 100 staff. Currently the legislation applies only to businesses with over 100 employees. 13241 The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force in the UK on 6 April 2008. The legislation should make it easier to prosecute companies and other large organisations when gross failures in the management of health and safety lead to death. It will also lift Crown immunity to prosecution. Crown bodies such as Government departments will be liable to prosecution for the first time. 13241 The Tr...
Magazine issue | 27 Feb 2008
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CDM special
...gulations should have been consolidated into Planning and Building Regulations rather than being kept separate as the CDM 2007 Regulations. CDM 2007: an FM's perspective 14 Going for gold 18 8th Annual Facilities Management 22 Legal Update Conference and Dinner CDM 2007 -- the right 25 change to make? LEGAL UPDATE Case law 26 Legal experts offer their advice to employers on the implications of recent case law. Clinic 32 Is there a legal wind speed that you are not allowed to work in? isto ck Technical guidance 28 Analysis 34 ph oto .co m P26 Employment Tribunal proceedings: libel and con...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2007
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...ned a little sceptical with reason as to the Government's commitment to this move. But the general consensus seems to be that the introduction of a new offence would finally see companies paying the proper price for their management failures. Whether this threat of prosecution would, in turn, make employers more aware of their duties under health and safety law is questionable. As Kathryn Gilbertson of Greenwoods Solicitors points out, `You'll always have responsible companies and others that fly by the seat of their pants.' Also high on the Government's agenda next year is the issue of disc...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
