HSM Podcast – Episode 22
EPISODE 22 of the Health & Safety Matters Podcast is now live and features an interview with veteran health and safety journalist Louis Wustemann on hybrid working.
EPISODE 22 of the Health & Safety Matters Podcast is now live and features an interview with veteran health and safety journalist Louis Wustemann on hybrid working.
MCR SAFETY offers a choice of products for your hands and eyes to ensure you keep safe and protected in the winter months.
THE SHE Awards is now in its fifth year and aims to recognise the key role that companies and individuals play in keeping people and premises safe.
THE DIRECTOR of an air conditioning company has been sentenced after a worker sustained a broken back when he fell five metres to the ground.
A SAWMILL has been fined after a worker injured his finger when his hand came into contact with the moving parts of a machine.
A LIFT maintenance company has been sentenced and a care home owner cautioned after a resident and care worker plunged four metres to the basement in a faulty lift at a residential care home.
A UK manufacturer of brick products, Ibstock Brick Ltd, has been fined for safety breaches after a worker’s hand was entangled and wrapped around the rotating shaft on a lathe.
A FARMING partnership has been fined after a farm worker was fatally injured following an incident involving a telehandler within the pig barn.
LAST YEAR, as the UK responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, sub-standard safety equipment entered the market putting lives at risk and potentially costing lives. Earlier in the summer, the Government published its Product Safety Review, calling for evidence and recommendations on how to strengthen outdated legislation to protect consumers from unsafe products.
BRITISH SAFETY Council is calling on the UK Government to approach the issue of air pollution with the same level and degree of urgency as it does climate change, and in doing so improve how it monitors and measures air pollution levels across the country.
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