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Medical companies and industry bodies are working to help healthcare organisations to comply with new EU regulations on the prevention of sharps injuries.
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MPs have said that the presence of asbestos in a majority of the UK’s state schools is a “national scandal”.
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Network Rail has admitted health and safety failings that contributed to the deaths of two teenage girls at a level crossing in Essex in 2005.
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A Durham community centre has been closed down temporarily by its local authority, after it was determined that the building posed serious health and safety risks.
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International manufacturer, Sansetsu (UK) Ltd, has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for an incident that saw a worker lose three of his fingers after catching them in a bubble wrap making machine.
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Aluminium casting company, JVM Castings Ltd, is facing a payout of £10,000 after being prosecuted for an incident in which a worker was burned by molten metal.
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The poor economic climate is seeing an increasing number of people going into work when they are not well, according to a new survey on employee health.
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Health and Safety Executive officers (HSE) recently visited basement construction sites across London and discovered serious safety failings at over a third of them.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new detailed guidance on the upcoming changes being made to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR).
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Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) have shown that the number of directors and senior managers that have been prosecuted under section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
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Recently agreed changes will come into effect in the near future. This means that under the revised regulations there will effectively be three categories of work with asbestos:
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IOSH is urging the Government to incorporate work-related road traffic accidents (RTA) into official statistics. The call came on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (20 November 2011).
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The introduction of the fit note to replace the sick note has not helped to reduce levels of employee sickness absence, according to new research.
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Proposals to recover HSE costs from duty-holders who materially breach health and safety law have been approved by the HSE Board.
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High street chocolatier, Thorntons, has been handed a £20,000 fine after a worker at the company's Derbyshire factory had her hand dragged into one of the machines as she was cleaning it.
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An incident in which a forklift truck driver had his neck broken by a falling computer cabinet has seen the logistics firm for which he was working ordered to pay more than £100,000 in fines and costs.
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Cameron pledges New Year attack on health and safety "albatross"
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A Preston-based construction company has been prosecuted after one of its employees was killed in an accident at work.
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A company has been fined £8,000 after failing to protect a worker from an electrical shock that could have proven fatal.
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Businesses will face radically scaled-back health and safety requirements when they take on an apprentice from 1 January.
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The annual uprating of statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay and statutory sick pay has been announced. These will rise from April 2012 in line with September’s RPI, by 5.2%.
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A consultation into The Health and Safety Executive’s proposals to roll out revised Control of Asbestos Regulations has been launched.
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Two Ely-based firms have been fined following a workplace accident in which an employee was seriously injured
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has reminded companies that they are obliged to provide suitable working temperatures for staff members.
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Birmingham-based property firm RVB Investments UK Ltd has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following a serious workplace accident.
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Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, Director of the King's Centre for Risk Management at King's College London, was appointed by the Government to chair an independent review of health and safety earlier this year.
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New figures published by the HSE on the 2nd of November 2011, show a fall in the number of people injured and made unwell at work.
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The Fire Industry Association (FIA) has produced updated best practice guidance (version 2) on fire safety in commercial premises.
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A major European food business producing raw and prepared chicken products has been fined £230,000 after two incidents at its Suffolk factory, one of which led to an employee losing his right hand.
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A 56-year-old factory worker suffered such serious injuries in an accident at work that he was nearly left permanently disabled.
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In March 2011, Professor Ragnar E Lofstedt was asked to review health and safety legislation, with a view to reducing the burden on business, whilst maintaining the progress that has been made in health and safety outcomes
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The government has announced that it is to launch a consultation into health and safety reform, following the publication of the independent Lofstedt report.
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A young man was crushed to death whilst working at the Sandyford abattoir in Paisley, Renfrewshire, late last week.
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A Shropshire-based poultry farm has been prosecuted due to a serious workplace accident.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revealed new statistics regarding the number of workplace injuries and fatalities.
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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned that proposals by the HSE to charge small firms for 'material' faults found during inspections could damage relationships and may be seen as a way to raise revenue rather than improve compliance.
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During September, the HSE's target 4,000 hours of face-to-face training to be donated by asbestos training companies to vulnerable tradesmen, has been exceeded by almost 100 per cent.
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The Shadow Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has called for a report by Professor Ragnar Löfstedt on health and safety in mining and other industries to be delayed while officials investigate the mining accident at Gleision.
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Since the 1st of October, more health and safety prosecutions will take place before Inquests as changes to a key agreement between those who investigate and prosecute work-related deaths seek to speed up justice. This only affects England and Wales.
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