Lightning warning systems ensure safety at mines
EVERY YEAR there are around two recorded explosions at opencast mining operations caused by lightning strikes during blasting activities.
EVERY YEAR there are around two recorded explosions at opencast mining operations caused by lightning strikes during blasting activities.
WE’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.
The 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’.
FOLLOWING 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.
A 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.
Carl Waring looks at five accident at work facts that every employer should know.
A TEESIDE-based company has been fined £36,000 for illegally depositing waste following a successful Environment Agency prosecution.
JUST 31% of people think hygiene practices in factories are adequate, according to the results of a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of Kimberly-Clark Professional.
SAFETY SIGNS manufacturer and safety products supplier Spectrum Industrial have launched a campaign ‘Let’s Wash Our Hands Of It’ to help raise awareness of the amount of germs lurking in the workplace.
Hand hygiene is playing an important role helping to break the chain of infection in your facility, says SC Johnson Professional.
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