health and safety at work

  The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries to work within in the UK. According to the Health and Safety Executive the construction industry accounts for 22 per cent of all fatal injuries to employees and 10 per cent of all r...

  Scottish Coal was recently fined £6,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The breaches lead to the severe injury of an employee, James Hunter in a workplace accident. The accident occurred when a l...

  The construction industry is a high risk industry. For those working in construction I’m sure it will come as no surprise that although the industry accounts for only 5 per cent of workers in Britain, statistically the construction industry ...

  You don’t expect to go to work and come home an amputee as a result of the fault and negligence of your employers but that is what happened to an engineer in Leicester recently. It is reported Benjamin Asare had been working as an engine...

  A recent report produced by Professor Andrew Watterson from the University of Stirling on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) linked an increase in workplace injuries to the recent, dramatic fall in HSE funding. It was reported that a number of ...

  I was shocked to read in the news that companies are still breaching health and safety regulations and causing needless deaths.  I read that Vion Food was fined £100,000 after a worker was run over and killed by a forklift truck in West...

  Network Rail has been fined £3 million for the Potters Bar Train crash for Health and Safety Failures.  The accident killed 6 rail passengers and one pedestrian walking near the station when the train was derailed. The company admitt...

  A company based in Stonehaven, East Coast Viners Grain LLP has been fined £4,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The breaches resulted in an employee of the company sustaining injuries after he fell...

  I was dismayed to read in the news about the 49 year old diver who died while working on the Acergy Osprey Vessel. It is thought that the diver suffered a heart attack. Emergency services were called, however, by the time the helicopter had made t...

  I was just reading that two Scottish companies have just been fined a total of £400,000 for breaches of health and safety legislation that resulted in the death of a stonemason’s labourer at a Glasgow Construction site. James Kelly ...

  According to the Trades Union Congress more people die every year at work than in war. In Great Britain last year 1.3 million working people we suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or previous employmen...

  A Tyneside construction company has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries following a fall from unsafe scaffolding. The company, Ian Allan Building Contractors Ltd, was prosecuted successfully by the Health and Safety Executive fo...

  It is like something out of a disaster movie - offshore workers exposed to nuclear radiation. But this is exactly what happened on a platform operated by Schlumberger Oilfield UK, who yesterday plead guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety ...

  Asbestos related diseases and conditions cause thousands of people to suffer injuries and symptoms every year. A lot of people who pursue compensation claims for asbestos related diseases and conditions were exposed to asbestos fibres in the workp...