productAS AN employer, you must take appropriate action to protect your staff, and visitors from harm. This includes taking any reasonable steps to protect your workers and others visiting your premises from COVID-19.
productAS BUSINESSES and other organisations emerge from the pandemic, there will be a renewed focus on the health and safety of workplaces.
newsHONEYWELL HAS released the results of a comprehensive study on workers’ perceptions and feelings on the health and safety of their workplace. Conducted by Wakefield Research, the study surveyed 500 workers that typically work in buildings with 500 or more employees across the United Kingdom and was part of a global study of 2,000 workers in a total of four markets.
productEVERY YEAR there are around two recorded explosions at opencast mining operations caused by lightning strikes during blasting activities.
productWE’VE SEEN yet another lockdown through the pandemic, and this time around it’s hit the hospitality industry extremely hard. From pubs to hotels and restaurants; the industry as a whole has taken a huge beating. With lockdown here once again, following the ‘Christmas Relaxation’, it would appear that the nation remains at home as much as possible and inevitably do what they do best – order from home.
newsThe Health and Safety Executive, in association with Health and Safety Matters, will be hosting a free to attend digital conference on 2-4 March 2021 entitled ‘Safe Net Zero 2021 – Hydrogen’.
newsFOLLOWING Office of Rail and Road (ORR) investigation, Scotland’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has prosecuted Network Rail, who were fined £135,000 by Edinburgh Sheriff Court, for failing to maintain and improve the railway fencing near Musselburgh, East Lothian which left a 13-year-old boy with serious injuries.
newsA CONVICTED waste crime offender has been ordered to pay £2,101,708 following a confiscation case brought by the Environment Agency at Worcester Crown Court which concluded on Tuesday 22 December 2020.
blogCarl Waring looks at five accident at work facts that every employer should know.
newsA TEESIDE-based company has been fined £36,000 for illegally depositing waste following a successful Environment Agency prosecution.
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