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.
newsSAFE DIGGING searches exceeded 4 million for the first time last year, with more people than ever prioritising health and safety before putting a spade in the ground.
newsA SCRAP metal recycling company has been fined after two members of the public were injured when a large pile of scrap metal collapsed onto them at its site in Scunthorpe.
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newsAN OLDHAM-based construction company has been fined after a bricklayer was hospitalised for a month when the floor he was working on collapsed.
newsA CHELSEA restaurant has been fined £50k after a three-year-old child suffered serious injuries when their foot was trapped and crushed in a descending glass window.
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newsA CULTURE of underreporting is masking the full extent of workplace injuries in UK agriculture, according to new research from IOSH.
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