productIT’S YOU as the employer and/or owner of the equipment. Why? Because the legal responsibility for ensuring the Thorough Examination (LOLER & PUWER) has been correctly carried out lies with the duty holder and not with the inspector.
newsSPECIALIST REMOVALS service Johnsons 1871 has launched a new initiative to reduce accidents and promote workforce safety.
newsTHE HEALTH and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has announced that it will be carrying out a workplace transport inspection campaign at manufacturing premises across Northern Ireland.
newsA BLACKPOOL clothing firm has been fined £40,000 after a man was seriously injured when he was hit by a forklift truck.
newsA FAMILY run haulage and storage business, has been fined following the death of a 25-year-old employee at its premises in East Lothian.
newsIN CLONMEL Circuit Court, Judge John Martin handed down a 12 month prison sentence on an employer who had earlier pleaded guilty to charges in breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007.
productAT VARIOUS exhibitions, specialists present their advanced warehouse safety solutions.
newsAPPEARING AT Coleraine Crown court, Mr Derek Nummy was fined £15,000. In addition a forfeiture order was granted in respect of the JCB loading shovel involved in the incident.
newsTRAVIS PERKINS Group has partnered with University of Salford Manchester’s specialist acoustics testing team to conduct an evidence-based study into the development of electric forklift truck sound alerts.
articleBritish Safety Council uses this page to answer YOUR questions.
Please send any problems, issues or general enquiries about health, safety and wellbeing to [email protected] and their experts will respond in future editions of HSM.
HSM publishes a weekly eNewsletter, delivering a carefully chosen selection of the latest stories straight to your inbox.
Subscribe here
Western Business Media,
Dorset House, 64 High Street,
East Grinstead, RH19 3DE
01342 314 300
[email protected]
© Western Business Media, 2026. All rights reserved.
