A Kent waste company has been fined £150,000 for several health and safety breaches. City of London Magistrates’ Court heard that a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection in August 2020 found that employees of BSP (Knockholt) Limited manually sorting through waste in its yard near Orpington were at risk of being struck by heavy … read more
A Derbyshire property owner has been given a community order after a father-of-two sustained life changing injuries when a wall collapsed on top of him during a barn conversion. Nigel Edwards failed to have a structural assessment of the outbuildings carried out as part of his planning for the project at his home in Woodhouses. … read more
The first Building Safety Conference, hosted by HSE’s Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is taking place today, Wednesday 22 March 2023, at Central Hall, Westminster BSR was created following Dame Judith Hackett’s review and part of the building safety reforms since the Grenfell tragedy. The event will see nearly 1,000 practitioners gather together to … read more
A London company has been fined £175,000 after a worker suffered serious head injuries that saw him hospitalised for seven months. The man, who was 35 at the time, was working at a domestic property on Elmfield Avenue, Crouch End, London, on 3 March 2019 when he sustained head injuries during concrete pumping operations carried … read more
A Hereford company has been fined £190k after an employee was seriously injured after falling into a pit. The man was working for Wyman-Gordon Limited, a company that produces forgings for the aerospace industry, when he fell into the bottom of a pit on 25 November 2018. He sustained deep cuts to his head that … read more