newsNew sentencing guidelines published on 3 November aim to ensure a consistent, fair and proportionate approach to sentencing organisations or individuals convicted of corporate manslaughter, health and safety and food safety and hygiene offences.
newsAn international campaign to raise awareness of occupational cancers has directly reached hundreds of thousands of workers in its first year.
blogWith health and safety being pushed to the fore in the drawn out Thomas Cook case, James Jameson, VP product strategy at risk management software platform, Rivo, asks if we are about to see a greater importance being placed on good health and safety practice? And, if so, how can companies avoid the kinds of breaches – and damage caused by such – in light of Thomas Cook’s failings?
newsThe owner of a Bedfordshire joinery and carpentry business pleaded guilty to failing to report an accident, where a person had two fingers amputated, which had occurred at his workshop.
newsInternational steel giant Tata has been fined £180,000 after pleading guilty to safety breaches after an employee narrowly escaped death when he was showered in scalding molten metal in a massive explosion at its Rotherham plant.
productFor over 100 years, Mines Rescue Service (MRS) has developed its specialist skills, experience and knowledge gained from working in a difficult and potentially dangerous environment, to effect the rescue and escape of mine workers from underground.
productEffective immediately, TC Security Services, part of TC Facilities Management (TCFM), has been awarded the contract to provide manned guarding services to a prime headquarters building in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
productSafety interlock and valve management systems expert Smith Flow Control has appointed Tracey Goldsmith as its new president.
newsHuman error was to blame for the Alton Towers roller coaster crash on 2 June according to the Staffordshire theme park.
productCenturion Safety Products have appointed Jeff Ward as the new chief executive officer. He will be based at the global headquarters in Thetford, England.
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