Contractor fined following dumper truck incident
A BUILDING contractor has been fined after an employee suffered serious injuries when the forward tipping dumper truck that he was operating rolled over at a construction site in Windermere, Cumbria.
A BUILDING contractor has been fined after an employee suffered serious injuries when the forward tipping dumper truck that he was operating rolled over at a construction site in Windermere, Cumbria.
NATIONAL EXHIBITION Centre Limited was fined £400,000 with costs of £8,864.34 and a £170 victim surcharge having pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
THE NASUWT has submitted a ten-point plan to the education ministers in the four nations of the United Kingdom to secure safe schools during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
THE OWNER of a Henley restaurant has been ordered to pay more than £22,000 after South Oxfordshire District Council successfully prosecuted the company for breaking a number of food hygiene and health and safety laws.
A SCAFFOLDING company has been fined for safety failings after scaffolding collapsed on to a street in Maidenhead while it was being dismantled.
UNITE IS calling on MPs and councillors to ensure that decent welfare facilities are installed at all lorry parks built in the county, to manage transport delays as a result of the UK’s transition deal with the European Union ceasing at the end of December.
THE DORSET firm disputed the vehicles were end-of-life when they entered the site but admitted breaching the enforcement notice after ignoring several warnings.
STATISTICS RELEASED by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that Great Britain is still one of the safest places in the world to work with the lowest number of deaths on record.
MORE THAN one-in-three (35 per cent) workers have an active concern about the transmission of Covid-19 in their workplace – with low-paid workers most likely to be worried, but least likely to raise concerns or see their complaints resolved – according to new Resolution Foundation research.
A DUNBAR brewery company was fined £10,000 after admitting discharging caustic effluent into a sewer which caused damage to a waste water treatment works.
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