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NHS asked: how are you preventing violence against staff?
Although the number of reported assaults against NHS staff appears to have gone down, this is probably as a result of a failure to report all incidents, Sue Frith, Deputy Head of the NHS Security Management services has said in an interview with Workplace Law Network.Numbers of physical assaults remain high, with 55,000 attacks on NHS staff reported ...
News | 6 Jun 2008
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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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Who's looking at you?
...McKenna 29 Companies House 15 Department for Transport 20 Department for Work and Pensions 12 DTI 26 Elonconsulting 18 Employers Forum on Disability 10 EMO Cargo 24 Experian 15 FBI 20 First Quench Retailing 20 G&K Roofing Contractors 25 Gifford 18 Greenwoods Solicitors LLP 18, 23 Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust 24 Howatt Nicoll 18 HSE 20, 23, 27 Information Commissioner 16 Inland Revenue 24 JRB Consulting 18 Keith Bright Consultants 18 Kronospa 25 MacRoberts 24, 27 McKinsey & Company 10 Metropolitan Police 15 MI5 15 Mills and Reeve 24, 31 Monster Worldwide 9 National Criminal Intelligence Service 15...
Magazine issue | 1 Jul 2005
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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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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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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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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
... and maintaining systems, whether indoor or outdoor. There's time lost during breaks, which is likely to be increased if long journeys are required. And there's the continued `invisible' cost of higher sickness absence levels among smokers, more days lost to ill health, the additional burden on the NHS and so on. Then what happens? You will incur increased costs in providing facilities for smokers, either as a oneoff expenditure (if an external structure) or ongoing (for maintenance or replacement of air filters if an indoor provision). Your smokers are likely to be happy, but you risk loss of wo...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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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
