Health, Safety & Quality Consultancy
The HSE has recently published an updated Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) L24 which is designed to make it easier for employers, building owners and landlords to meet their obligations on how to protect the health, safety and welfare of their workers.
New information from the HSE state that workers are more likely to have an accident in the first 6 months at a workplace as during the whole of the rest of their work life. The extra risks are due to:
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A Spalding farming business has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 in fines and costs after a farm manger was killed when he was hit by a fork lift truck.
The employee was walking from his car across the yard at the farm when he was struck on 31 October 2010.
A Sheffield teenager with a temporary job at a major glass recycling firm in West Yorkshire had his arm crushed when it was drawn into the unguarded danger zone of a machine, a court has heard.
The 18 year old Sheffield worker, who was employed by a local staffing agency, had been working as a temp at a glass recycling company in Pontefract, for varying periods over some 6 months. (more…)