A scaffolding company has been sentenced today for safety breaches after a 16-year-old apprentice joiner fell approximately four metres from a scaffold platform.
Link: Company fined after apprentice injured in fall from height
Source: Health and Safety
Companies and people working in food manufacturing are being told they must pay closer attention to how they manage workplace health risks or face serious penalties.
Link: HSE food manufacturing inspections target the causes of workplace ill-health
Source: Health and Safety
Martin McColl Limited and JMS Retail Concepts Limited have both been sentenced today after two members of the public tripped and fell over construction work outside a convenience store in Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan.
Link: Retail company and construction contractor fined over safety failings
Source: Health and Safety
A pest control company and one of its directors have been sentenced for the unsafe storage of unauthorised biocidal products and phostoxin (aluminium phosphide).
Link: Company and one of its directors fined for the unsafe storage of unauthorised biocidal products
Source: Health and Safety
A construction company has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when the first floor of the building he was standing on collapsed underneath him.
Link: Construction company fined after worker seriously injured
Source: Health and Safety
Three companies, Sembcorp Utilities (UK) Limited, Central Industrial Services (Northern) Ltd and R & A Kay Inspection Services Ltd, were sentenced today after an employee suffered serious fractures to his leg.
Link: Worker suffers life changing injury after pressure test failure
Source: Health and Safety
West Hill Projects Ltd has been fined more than £95,000 after a worker fell from height.
Link: Construction firm fined after worker fell from height
Source: Health and Safety
Dufell Roofing Company Ltd, a Darlington based roofing company was sentenced today after an employee suffered a fracture to his back requiring surgery.
Link: Construction worker suffers fracture to his back after a fall from height
Source: Health and Safety
A Swindon-based scaffolding company and its director have been sentenced after a worker was left with life-changing injuries.
Link: Company and director sentenced after work left seriously injured
Source: Health and Safety
An Essex-based road haulage firm has been fined after an employee was crushed between two articulated vehicles and subsequently died from his injuries.
Link: Road haulage company fined after worker killed
Source: Health and Safety
