newsCarlsberg fined £3m following ammonia gas leak
CARLSBERG HAS been fined £3 million after a contractor died and another was seriously injured following an ammonia gas leak at one of its breweries.
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newsSmart motorways ranked top risk by courier drivers
A NEW survey has highlighted that couriers regard smart motorways and the removal of hard shoulders as the greatest risk to health and safety. Two in five drivers who regularly use national highways identified the smart motorways as the top danger.
newsWorker falls 30 feet through warehouse skylight
A BLACKBURN based warehouse owner has been fined after an employee of a roofing contractor Nizamuddin Gorji fell approximately 30 feet through a glass skylight on a warehouse roof resulting in severe life changing injuries.
newsDemolition company fined after fall from height fatality
A DISMANTLING and demolition company has been fined after a worker fell 30 feet to his death when part of a pipe bridge platform gave way.
newsBSC urges employers to back wellbeing
AT THE start of World Wellbeing Week, which takes place from 27 June to 1 July, the Chairman of British Safety Council, Peter McGettrick, has issued a rallying cry to all businesses and employers to make the wellbeing of their staff as important as their health and safety.
newsDuo jailed for 10 counts of modern slavery
A COUPLE who subjected victims to a life of misery and poverty by forcing them to work and spending their earnings, have been jailed for modern slavery offences.
newsDriver training will increase safety
THE UK’S booming logistics sector must not fall behind on safety and compliance while in a period of expansion, urges TTC. It is calling on the industry to continue to focus on driver training for all within the sector in order to increase road safety, decrease accident rates and lower fleet costs for operators, for the benefit of all.
newsDairy Crest given record fine
THE MAKER of popular brands like Cathedral City and others has been fined £1.5 million – the largest fine ever awarded for an Environment Agency conviction in the South West.
newsTributes paid to former IOSH president
TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to J Russell Brownlie, a former president of IOSH, who passed away recently in Edinburgh.
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ARE EMPLOYERS legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments for hay fever sufferers? Find out in this blog by Posturite, and consider office air purifiers to help. This summer we tentatively broach the subject of sweaty backs too…
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