newsRETAIL WORKERS are subjected to growing levels of intimidation, aggression and unwanted filming as abuse against store staff soars, according to the charity calling for a turnaround in behaviour in the run-up to Christmas.
newsA VEHICLE recovery driver has pleaded guilty after a runaway Range Rover he failed to secure rolled down a hill in Bournemouth, dragging him beneath the vehicle before crushing a member of the public who attempted to help.
newsCOTSWOLD RAINWATER Services Ltd pleaded guilty to an offence of Corporate Manslaughter on 10 September 2026 in the Crown Court at Oxford.
newsA SOLE trader has been sentenced after his stepson was fatally electrocuted while working on a domestic property in Chester.
newsONE OF the country’s leading distributors of firearms for sports shooting and law enforcement has been fined £800k after a worker suffered burns at its site in Lincolnshire.
newsTWO COMPANIES have been fined a combined £1.3 million after a window unit fell from the 26th floor of a luxury development in London, killing a coach driver on his break as he walked below.
newsA WASTE and recycling company in the West Midlands has been fined after a man described as ‘thoughtful and kind’ was killed while discharging a fire extinguisher.
newsA MAJOR food manufacturing company has been fined £594k following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), after an employee and their colleague suffered scald injuries when they were carrying out maintenance work on steam pipework in the company’s factory in Melton Mowbray.
newsTWO COMPANIES and a self-employed contracts manager have been sentenced after a worker was crushed to death when an unsupported trench collapsed at a site in Surrey.
newsALMOST ONE in four contractors start work before compliance checks are complete (23%), new research reveals, exposing a gap between contractor management policy and day-to-day practice.
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