Still room for improvement
Injury and ill-health statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive show that while Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in Europe, too many workers are still being injured or made ill by work.
Injury and ill-health statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive show that while Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in Europe, too many workers are still being injured or made ill by work.
The UK branch of a Swedish farming group has been fined after an employee suffered serious cuts to his fingers while cleaning a machine at its pastry manufacturing site in Bedford.
A worker had to have three toes amputated after his foot was crushed beneath a 300kg press die as he moved it from the bed of the press he was working on, a court has heard.
A Tameside gate manufacturer has been fined £10,000 after it ignored a formal warning about installing guards on two circular saws.
HSE calls for New Year resolution on health and safety blame game…
A West Yorkshire company has been sentenced after a worker died when he was crushed beneath a one tonne silo of varnish that slid from the tines of a forklift truck and toppled onto him.
A West Yorkshire company has been sentenced after a worker died when he was crushed beneath a one tonne silo of varnish that slid from the tines of a forklift truck and toppled onto him.
For the first time since the infamous ‘Struxnet’ incident it would seem, a cyber attack has caused confirmed physical damage.
A Hertfordshire-based company has been fined after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he was struck by a 3.2t reel of paper at its premises in Essex.
A Rutland company which manufactures children’s bedroom furniture has been fined after a machine operator suffered serious hand injuries in a makeshift vacuum cleaner.
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