image_pdfimage_print

Author Archives: HSE

HSE urges Blackburn businesses to take five steps to become COVID-secure

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is out and about talking to businesses in Blackburn and the surrounding areas to ensure they are COVID-secure to help tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. To support the understanding of any patterns in the confirmed coronavirus cases in the area, HSE is working alongside Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council …

The post HSE urges Blackburn businesses to take five steps to become COVID-secure appeared first on HSE Media Centre.

read more

HSE

Plumbing and heating company fined after employee suffered burns in explosion

A plumbing and heating company has been fined after an employee suffered serious burns following an explosion at a domestic property in Preesall, Lancashire. Blackpool Magistrates’ Court heard that on 13 March 2019, John Leadley Limited had been replacing a gas boiler in the hallway of a bungalow. As part of this work, an employee …

The post Plumbing and heating company fined after employee suffered burns in explosion appeared first on HSE Media Centre.

read more

Health and Safety • HSE

Council fined following fatality caused by a tree branch striking a moving vehicle

Wirral Borough Council has been fined after a branch from a tree fell and struck the vehicle of a pregnant mother while she was driving with her two children. Elizabeth Stear suffered injuries and later, the sad loss of her prematurely born baby. Liverpool Magistrates’ Court heard that on the morning of 10 November 2016, …

The post Council fined following fatality caused by a tree branch striking a moving vehicle appeared first on HSE Media Centre.

read more

Health and Safety • HSE

Figures reveal that numbers of people killed have fallen, yet agriculture continues to have the highest rates of worker fatal injury

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today published a report that reveals agriculture has the worst rate of worker fatal injury in Great Britain. Last year, 21 people were killed in agriculture, one was a child. The report, Fatal injuries in agriculture, forestry and fishing in Great Britain 2019/20, has been published to coincide …

The post Figures reveal that numbers of people killed have fallen, yet agriculture continues to have the highest rates of worker fatal injury appeared first on HSE Media Centre.

read more

HSE

The Health and Safety Executive Welcomes Government’s Draft Bill to Improve Building and Fire Safety in England

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has welcomed the publication of the government’s draft Building Safety Bill, which aim to create the biggest change in building safety for a generation. The publication of the draft bill, on Monday 20 July, follows the announcement made by Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP in January that …

The post The Health and Safety Executive Welcomes Government’s Draft Bill to Improve Building and Fire Safety in England appeared first on HSE Media Centre.

read more

Health and Safety • HSE