Stress Awareness Week: Employers have to fulfil legal duty
Britain’s workplace health and safety regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is calling on all employers during Stress Awareness Week 2024 to carry out their legal duty to prevent work-related stress and support good mental health at work.
HSE figures show the average employee suffering from work-related stress, depression or...Read More »
School trust fined after pupil injured
A school trust in Surrey has been fined after part of a pupil’s finger was amputated.
The five-year-old boy, a Year 1 pupil at Danetree Primary School in Epsom, had been leaving the toilet on 15 June 2022 when his right hand slipped and went into the hinge side of a...Read More »
Man spared immediate spell behind bars over unsafe gas work
A man from Blackpool has been spared an immediate spell behind bars after his unsafe gas work put people’s lives at risk.
Mehmet Kalyoncu, who pleaded guilty on the first day of a proposed trial, was given a 12-month custodial sentence suspended for the same period.
The 57-year-old, who was not Gas...Read More »
Company fined as employee fractures skull
A company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained a fractured skull at its site in Glasgow.
In addition to a fractured skull, the worker sustained a broken clavicle, a ripped earlobe and haematomas down his right side, caused by being struck by a telehandler bucket while working at Grayshill...Read More »
Routine inspection lands metal recycling firm with £650,000 fine
A major metal recycling firm has been hit with a £650,000 fine following a routine inspection by Britain’s workplace regulator.
ASM Metal Recycling, which operates four other metal recycling sites, including at locations in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, received enforcement action from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for failing to implement...Read More »