newsSurvey reveals workers’ building concerns
HONEYWELL HAS released the results of a comprehensive study on workers’ perceptions and feelings on the health and safety of their workplace.
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newsRecognising health and safety in manufacturing
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.
productArco experts support longest cave rescue in Welsh history
IN NOVEMBER 2021, nearly 300 people united to help rescue a man from the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system near Penwyllt, Powys. The caver had fallen, leaving him trapped underground with severe injuries and at the centre of a rescue mission taking three gruelling days.
newsHSE clamps down on South Yorkshire businesses
WITH A recent South Yorkshire inspection campaign drawing to its conclusion, the Health and Safety Executive has found that 65 per cent of businesses visited were in breach of the law.
newsMultiple safety failings on house build site
AN IRVINE-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after multiple health and safety failings, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a house build site in Irvine.
newsNursery fined £800k after baby chokes to death
AN EDINBURGH nursery has been fined £800,000 after an eleven-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food.
newsResearch highlights fire safety inadequacies
WITH EMPLOYEES and customers returning to workplaces and stores following the pandemic, new research by JLA has revealed that many companies are ill-equipped to deal with the growing risk of fires at their sites – posing huge risk to employee and customer safety.
newsFine after care home resident chokes and dies
A CARE home company has been fined £640,000 after one of their residents choked on a piece of doughnut and died.
newsWorker injured during excavation work
A CONSTRUCTION company and its groundworks contractor have been fined after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm.
newsBSC responds to cladding announcement
MICHAEL GOVE, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing, has set out plans to raise £4bn to replace combustible cladding on buildings of heights between 11m and 18m.
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