A company has been fined £2.6 million after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him in Lancashire. James Sim, a 32-year-old worker, from Barry, South Wales, a sub-contractor working on behalf of Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions...
Notifiable Non-Licensed Work (NNLW) September 2015 - Essential maintenance is required Essential maintenance work is required to HSE services and is scheduled to take place on 8, 10, 15, 17 and 22 September 2015. To minimise disruption this work will be undertaken...
Graham thinks that health and safety is a Great British success and the strategy is leading us to where we need to be in terms of focusing on the health of workers, as well as safety. [gc layout="2"][/gc]
An Oxford based company has been fined after disturbing asbestos insulation board (AIB) at a school. Northampton Magistrates’ Court heard how Amey Communities Limited (ACL) were contracted to carry out roof refurbishment at Lings Primary School, Hayeswood Road,...
Believed to be one of the first cases involving a company in the work at height sector, a Merseyside scaffolding firm has been fined £300,000 at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting a charge of corporate manslaughter following the death of father-of-three, Adrian...
As the trade body for mobile access towers, PASMA has expressed serious concern that yet again a preventable accident has caused injury - this time to a demolition worker – who fell from a tower. As originally reported in a Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...
A couple of photos from our latest IPAF 3a and 3b Training
Heating engineer fined after homeowners put at risk of asbestos exposure A self employed heating engineer has been fined after removing asbestos lagged pipework in a domestic property with no precautions to prevent exposure to asbestos fibres. Karl Locher pleaded...
A Stockport heating engineering firm were sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a Manchester school. Trafford Magistrates’ Court heard Flueclean were contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school. However, two...
Preliminary fatal injury rate calculations confirm that mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) are one of the safest ways to perform temporary work at height. This latest analysis complements IPAF’s release of its 2014 MEWP-related accident data and indicates that...
