newsMultiple safety failings on house build site
AN IRVINE-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after multiple health and safety failings, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a house build site in Irvine.
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newsNursery fined £800k after baby chokes to death
AN EDINBURGH nursery has been fined £800,000 after an eleven-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food.
newsFine after care home resident chokes and dies
A CARE home company has been fined £640,000 after one of their residents choked on a piece of doughnut and died.
newsWorker injured during excavation work
A CONSTRUCTION company and its groundworks contractor have been fined after unsafe excavation work left a worker with serious burns to his hand and arm.
newsPlan demolition properly, urges HSE
GREAT BRITAIN’S workplace regulator is asking demolition and construction firms to double-down on thorough planning, management and control of demolition and refurbishment work.
newsContractor prosecuted due to partial building collapse
A BUILDING contractor was prosecuted after carrying out unsafe excavation works, which resulted in the partial collapse of a residential building.
newsFoundry fined £133k after worker suffers burns
A FOUNDRY has been sentenced for safety breaches after an employee suffered life-changing burns following an eruption of molten slag during a slag tipping procedure.
newsLivestock market prosecuted after employee attacked
A LIVESTOCK market partnership has been prosecuted after an employee was attacked by a horned bull prior to auction.
newsCommercial printing fined after employees injured
A COMMERCIAL printing company has been sentenced for safety breaches after two employees were injured in separate incidents involving a printing press and a palletising machine.
newsCare home resident dies following lift fall
A LIFT maintenance company has been sentenced and a care home owner cautioned after a resident and care worker plunged four metres to the basement in a faulty lift at a residential care home.
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