Welcome to the latest edition of the health & safety newsletter.
Featured articles
HSE has launched its consultation to extend the range of activities for which it recovers costs.
Following the successful prosecution of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, a second company, Lion Steel Limited, has been charged with Corporate Manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 following the death of one of its employees.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has produced a new Napo video and factsheet available in various languages to illustrate the safe working practices to be adopted when approaching workplace transport.
Two companies have been fined a total of £640,000 following the death of two workers on 11 May 2009 who died whilst attempting to save a co-worker working on a salmon farm in Scotland.
Euro Earthworks Limited has been ordered to pay £33,000 following death of construction worker who was crushed by a falling excavator bucket which contained two tonnes of concrete.
Marks and Spencer and a number of contractors working on store refurbishments have been fined after potentially exposing construction workers, staff and members of the public to asbestos.
Further information on the provisions of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 that came into effect in June.
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