A specialist construction company has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham. David Clover was employed by Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks Ltd to carry out ...

A worker who repaired potholes was diagnosed with Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), an occupational disease, following repeated exposure to vibration tools. His employer, Rotherham Metropolitan ...

Can behavioural safety directly reduce accidents at work? Dom Cooper looks at common assumptions and approaches to behaviour-based change. Without doubt, some of the criticisms have been justified by ...

Writing for RoSPA, Dominic Watkins, Partner and Global Lead Consumer Sector, and Nadine Robinson, ESG and Sustainability Director, both of DWF, explain how the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence ...

Health and safety professionals must look after themselves to ensure they protect others, the new IOSH President has said on her focus for this year. Kelly Nicoll became the 58 th President of the ...

Britain’s workplace safety regulator has published a guide of do’s and don’ts for people installing stone worktops. The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) guidance is designed to highlight the need ...

Last year, workplace injuries and ill health cost British employers a staggering £20.7 billion and 35.2 million working days were lost. By investing in high quality health and safety training your ...

A company has been fined £120,000 after an employee broke his leg while working on a property in Salisbury. The man, who was 23 at the time, fell from the roof of the house on Sherfield English Road ...

Mr Hatton, from Doncaster, had his right lower leg amputated with two toes on his left foot also being removed following the incident at Davy Business Park. The pallet was being removed from a ...

A company that produces stone products and its director have been fined a total of just under £20,000 after repeatedly failing to protect workers from exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS).

An MOT Testing centre in Finsbury Park has been fined £10,000 after a child sustained life changing injuries after being hit by a car and crushed. A 14-year-old boy was with an adult, sitting down, ...