newsTHE HEALTH and Safety Executive (HSE), working in partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT), has published updated guidance on work-related road risk (WRRR) for employers and workers.
newsAN EDINBURGH-based care company has been fined £20,000 for its failure to safeguard a worker who became the victim of abduction, assault and rape.
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articleOne of the recommendations in the recently published Löfstedt report was the formation of an independent regulatory ‘challenge panel’. The initiative was launched on 5 January and here we explain how it works.
newsProvisional data released by the HSE shows for April 2011 to March 2012 173 workers were killed – down two from the previous year.
newsLion Steel Limited has become the third company in the UK to be convicted of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. On 3 July 2012 the company pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter in a case concerning the death of employee Stephen Berry on 29 May 2008, who died from injuries following a fall through a fragile roof panel
articleLatest HSE accident statistics which suggest there has been a slight fall in workplace accidents should in no way result in a loss of focus on accident prevention, says Roger Bibbings of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
newsA pressure group has warned the HSE that it needs to change its “unrealistic” approach to occupational cancer if thousands more cases and deaths are to be prevented.
newsA Fleet Safety Forum report published by Brake shows that nearly six in 10 fleets (57%) do not test drivers for alcohol and 63% do not test for illegal drugs.
newsShops, offices, pubs and clubs will no longer face health and safety inspections in a radical Government plan to curb red tape and boost British business growth.
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