Health and safety inspectors believe illegal gas fitters are operating in Hampshire. Great Britain’s workplace regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is investigating several reports of unsafe gas work carried out in Portsmouth and Havant. Investigations are ongoing after several houses needed gas servicing work to be redone by competent Gas Safe registered engineers. … read more
A property management company has been fined £200,000 after an employee was left in a wheelchair after falling eight metres through a rooflight. Robin Williamson, an asbestos surveyor employed by City Property (Glasgow) LLP, suffered severe injuries after he fell while carrying out a survey on the roof of Netherton Community Centre, Glasgow on 5 … read more
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one of three people who were on the incomplete first floor of a building that was being constructed in Croham Valley Road, Croydon on 23 June 2021. Several pallets of … read more
A food production company has been fined £858,000 after an employee had his arm amputated after becoming entangled in an industrial food mixer. Lee Simpson was removing filling ingredients from a paddle mixer, from which the contents could be removed at the front, at David Wood Baking Limited’s premises in Sheerness, Kent when his right … read more
The world’s longest-running plastics trade association, the British Plastics Federation (BPF), has become the latest partner to join the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Working Minds campaign. The latest statistics from HSE show there were an estimated 914,000 cases due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2021/22. That’s an 11% rise from the 822,000 … read more