productCONSTRUCTION SITES may be able to stay open during the second lockdown but consistent measures must be taken to ensure site workers are protected and to minimise the risk of spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) infection.
newsENVA SCOTLAND Limited has been fined following an incident where a 28-year-old employee, Martin Kane, was fatally injured while cleaning a mobile shredder.
newsAT CORK Circuit Court, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a fine of €10,000 on a Cork farmer following a guilty plea to a breach of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.
newsA 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.
newsNATIONAL 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.
newsTHE 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.
newsTHE 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.
newsA SCAFFOLDING company has been fined for safety failings after scaffolding collapsed on to a street in Maidenhead while it was being dismantled.
newsUNITE 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.
newsTHE DORSET firm disputed the vehicles were end-of-life when they entered the site but admitted breaching the enforcement notice after ignoring several warnings.
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