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NHS Trust cleared of safety breach following worker death
An NHS trust has been cleared of breaching health and safety rules over the death of its laundry production manager, who was crushed by a machine.In December 2005 Bayunga Meya, 47, crawled underneath a machine to correct a fault, but a colleague restarted it unaware Meya was there. The father of three fro...
Case | 11 Dec 2008
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...zed. 30244 Trust fined after healthcare worker contracts hepatitis C A healthcare worker at a Worcestershire hospital contracted the Hepatitis C virus after injuring herself on a needle used to take blood from an infected patient. The worker, who had been training at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust for three weeks, was instructed to take blood from a patient known to be infected with the virus. The HSE investigation found the employee was not made aware of the patient's infection status until after the injury occurred and was not supervised during the procedure. Despite action to counte...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Hospital Trust fined after employee electric shock
A hospital has been fined £8,000 after a worker suffered severe injuries whilst operating a steam cleaner.East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust was ordered to pay the sum plus further costs of £8,466.71 after pleading guilty to breaching the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.The incident, which occurred at the Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-On-Sea, resulted in the...
Case | 15 Sep 2008
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Perk of the job? Managing the risks faced by loneworkers
...from home or as mobile workers, communicating with loneworkers has never been more important; especially given what can happen if communication systems are not in place... Service, figures reveal there were 55,000 physical assaults on staff in the year 2006-7. Here, she tells Douglas Kitson how the NHS is working to manage the threat these workers face. 14 ChALLENGE 26 MANSfIELD TO GhANA IN ONE bIG LEAp This month, Workplace Law Magazine's own Editor, Kelly Mansfield is the subject of the challenge, as she prepares to travel to Africa at Christmas on a mission to support communities in Ghana. 0...
Magazine issue | 5 Jun 2008
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Facefacts: The real cost of social networking to your business
...rganisations taking the leap into prohibiting employees from using the site at all, seemingly drastic measures that don't necessarily address the problem. Transport for London, Lloyds TSB, the Metropolitan Police and Credit Suisse are all reported to have banned the site, and, more recently, Medway NHS Trust and Kent County Council. Commenting on the ban, a spokesperson for Medway NHS Trust said: "A decision was taken by the IT and Operations departments ... to add a number of sites, including facebook.com, to the restricted list. This is part of work ongoing within the Trust, to monitor interne...
Magazine issue | 16 Oct 2007
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Directors' responsibilities for health and safety
...that New Labour is putty in the hands of the commercial and institutional barons. The HSE appears to have adopted the corporate line: that the best way of dealing with it is to rely on voluntary compliance. Evidence shows that this is not working and killing at work is on the increase. Consider the NHS it is one of the nation's largest employers and is also the country's largest `killer'. A National Audit Office paper indicated some 5,000 persons die each year as a result of nosocomial infection. If Trust Senior Executives were to be criminalised and held responsible for these deaths it would ...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2005
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A new age?
...al pay case A nurse has won what has been calleda'landmarkequalpay claim' after it was found that her employer, City and Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust, failed to justify her pay being 14 lower than her male comparator's, a maintenance supervisor. This wasatestcaseintheequalpay claims against NHS Trusts of whether employers can justify paying women less than men under the old Whitley Council pay system. Experts predict it will have implications for thousands of claims being pursued. 35136 www.workplacelaw.net Employment update | Comment Members and affiliates share their thoughts and o...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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ETs on the rise
... and education), makes good sense. But we want to see Lord Young advocate that investment in prevention is what saves lives and money and make clear that there has to be a re-prioritisation in Government if this is to happen. At present, it seems relatively easy to secure funding for treatment (the NHS budget is ring-fenced) but very difficult to redirect resources to prevention, which would save a lot of those costs (as well as personal misery). This has to change. We need to look at how we use our resources to best effect. We have suggested to the HSE and ministers that there could be a much be...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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Sweeping changes
...icantly higher than the private sector rate. 28357 fOR MORe On this and OtheR heaLth and safety neWs Go to ... www.workplacelaw.net/news www.workplacelaw.net 7 Health and safety update | Case law health and safety case law Implications of the latest health and safety case law for employers ... 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 Mayra Cabrera died in hospital when she was wrongly given an ep...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2010
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Open for Business
...Nurse loses crucifix case A Christian nurse moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix at work has lost her discrimination claim. Shirley Chaplin claimed she was prevented from expressing her religious beliefs by not being allowed to wear her crucifix necklace. Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust argued that the policy covered any necklace as they could constitute a health and safety risk for those in a clinical-facing role. Mrs Chaplin said she felt that she was being asked to 'hide' her faith. 27227 Suspended sentence for NHS worker who lied about qualifications A senior...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...g their own cars for work, adequately insured? asks Dawn Girardi. 24 CENTRE OF ExCELLENCE David Sharp explains the challenges involved in choosing and preparing the new Workplace Law Executive Centre, opening in central London in April. 46 DIARy Coming soon from Workplace Law. 14 CASE LAW Senior NHS Consultant wins whistleblowing claim; and age bars for job applicants can be legal, rules EU court. Fu 27 ALTERED IMAGES Public relations expert, James Boyd-Wallis, outlines the communication and reputation management issues employers should consider when dealing with an employment dispute. LL F...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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The world in your hands?
... principles alone it is still difficult to assess whether a particular case should fall within a particular band or what sum would be appropriate. In practice, the best way to assess what sum a Tribunal is likely to award is by reviewing previous decisions. In Rowe v. Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2008) Ms Rowe and a number of other nurses were caring for a child. Both Ms Rowe and the child were of Afro Caribbean origin. Ms Rowe and her colleagues were sat with the child discussing a hen party. Ms Rowe asked why she had not been invited and the colleague said that it was b...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...politan Borough Council, female healthcare workers, admin staff and cleaners claimed they should not have to name a specific male employee as a comparator when filing an equal pay grievance. The Court ruled in their favour. It is believed that the ruling will affect up to 7,000 local government and NHS staff with unresolved claims. www.workplacelaw.net Important decision on ETO reason defence in TupE cases A recent Employment Tribunal (ET) decision in Royden & Others v. Barnett Solicitors has serious adverse implications for outsource providers and their clients. The ET held that the new outsour...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Soap star: The hygiene special issue
...ndon 22 September 2009 become knowledgeable on: n Recruitment and selection including conducting interviews n Performance management and employee relations n Training and development n Human resource planning It is time to stop the finger pointing of who is to blame for the poor cleanliness of our NHS hospitals, says Derek Butler. 20 ALLERGIC REACTION Local authorities should use their powers to ensure that more public toilets are available to the public, says Mike Bone. 09 pubLIC buILDING = pubLIC TOILET? Soap is one of the few substances that all workers come into contact with on a day-to-...
Magazine issue | 3 Mar 2009
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Evacuation versus invacuation
...rmal in patient load and staff," says David Probert, Chief Operating Officer at the hospital. "The timing helped to avoid any major problems with patients, but although there were fewer to evacuate than would be on a normal day, there were also correspondingly fewer staff to help move patients." In NHS buildings, given the complexity of the design and needs of the patients, complete evacuation is always thought of as a last resort. However, a full evacuation was decided upon fairly early on in proceedings due to the quick spread of smoke and danger of the roof collapsing. Each ward was evacuated ...
Magazine issue | 10 Jul 2008
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Health hazards: keeping a lid on panic
...s and a sealed plastic bag rather than a vacuum cleaner. Care should also be taken to not inhale the dust. However, Mike has seen that, when it comes to mercury, even having procedures in place won't ensure that staff will remain safe. When Mike was working as an occupational safety officer for the NHS in Southampton, he came across a severe case of mercury poisoning caused by light bulbs: "We had a lamp crusher [to crush spent fluorescent tubes] and what people had to do was run water on them as they were crushing lamps, and not crush too many at a time. I got called down because a chap had been...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2008
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...5 Mills and Reeve 26, 33 Millwall FC 19 Morriston Hospital 19 Nabarro Nathanson 13 Network Rail Infrastructure 27 Osborne Clarke 14, 33 Pinsent Masons 12 PJ Facilities 33 Prudential 19 RAC 34 Security Industry Authority (SIA) 14 Shepherd + Wedderbun 20, 27 Smurfit News Press 27 Starbucks 23 Swansea NHS Trust 19 Temporary Labour Working Group 7 Tom Giannini Architects 9 TUC 28, 34 Virgin Trains 18 West Midlands Police 20 Wilfield Shopfitting and Exhibitions 27 Advertisers in this issue Breathe CMS Cameron McKenna Kennedys Osborne Clarke THB Group T. 01223 209 920 www.breathegroup.com T. 020 7367 3...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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Stress management special
...fety Executive (HSE) 7, 12, 13, 15, 19 Humberside Police 26 Inskip Partnership 8 Kennedys 8, 33 Knightsbridge Petroleum (UK) Ltd 33 Marks and Spencer 27 Martineau Johnson 19 Masons 7, 20 McGinley Recruitment Services 27 Mills & Reeve 8, 26 MPH Accessible Environments 8 National Union of Teachers 19 NHS 6, 8 North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service 8 Northumberland County Council 18 Osborne Clarke 6 Pfizer UK 1, 17 PME Ltd 12, 14 R&P Long Ltd 27 RMC 27 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 17 Scotland Yard 26 Somerset County Council 18, 19 Steelecase 33 Tarlo Lyons Recruitment and Resourcing...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Cultivating success: how to cut costs and stimulate growth
...nificant issue is that Leighton and his team transformed the business while sitting in an intense public spotlight. As we will no doubt see next month, what happens at Royal Mail can become a highly charged public and political issue. The postal service is viewed by the public as almost akin to the NHS, rather than a commercial operation the `Postman Pat' image of a stalwart of the (often rural) community who finds time to check that everyone is OK as he does his rounds remains a potent one, as is the notion of the Post Office as village lifeline. Yet it is one that is increasingly at odds wit...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2009
