Two men working on a residential tower under construction in London were fortunate to escape death when a defective cradle they were in fell about 90 feet. On 4 June 2020, Marcel Botnaru and Radu Baracu were working in the cradle at level nine of the Pennington Street building. The …
Earlier this year, IOSH magazine covered the work of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Rose Leese-Weller, whose investigations had brought a failing local exhaust ventilation (LEV) inspection company to account. Quite aside from Rose’s investigations, though, as part of its ‘Dust Kills’ campaign HSE has also been undertaking proactive and targeted inspections …
Three companies have been fined a total of £420,000 after a slate tile fractured the skull of a three-year-old child. The slate came off a roof at a construction site at the Moonfleet Manor hotel in Weymouth, Dorset, and struck the young girl on 13 June 2019. She had been …
Three companies have been fined a total of £600,000 after an engineer was fatally electrocuted while repairing an appliance in a hospital kitchen. Craig Stocker, working for Serviceline (part of AFE Group), died on 13 December 2017 while fixing a macerator (food waste disposal unit) at Bishops Wood Hospital, operated …
A haulage company in Wales has been fined £100,000 after a worker fell from a loading bay and died. The 63-year-old, from Hungary, had been preparing a load of trailers in his lorry ahead of departure from Williams Haulage Limited’s site at Deeside Industrial Estate on 16 March 2020. The …
An educational trust has been fined after 15 schoolchildren and their teacher were injured when their classroom ceiling collapsed during a lesson. Fifteen Year 3 pupils, aged between seven and eight, and their teacher had the ceiling collapse onto them at Rosemead Preparatory School in London, at around 9.30am on …
An incident where the skin on a worker’s palm was completely degloved by a conveyor system has landed a leading workwear company with a £400,000 fine. On 16 December 2021, Sharon Chaplin, 51, was working an evening shift for workwear company Johnsons Textile Services Limited at the company’s site in …
Advice on the fire safety matters that should be considered by local planning authorities, applicants and other technical specialists involved in high rise residential and educational accommodation buildings at the planning stage, has been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Ron Alalouff reports. Planning Gateway One established the HSE as …
Dr Karen McDonnell, RoSPA’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser and Head of RoSPA Scotland, offers advice on how employers can tackle the vital issue of fatigue. Fatigue is a major but under-recognised hazard in the workplace, adversely affecting workers’ health, safety and wellbeing as well as overall organisational effectiveness. …
Time tracking software is not the most effective way to motivate remote workers, experts have said. Employee engagement company Weekly10 said employers need to motivate remote workers in other ways such as realistic goals, incentive programmes, transparent feedback and celebrating success. It comes after their research showed 16% of employees …
