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HSE’s gas safety webpages are designed to remind people about the risks of the silent killer, carbon monoxide poisoning, as we all turn on our heating appliances as the weather gets colder.
Following the failure of a company to report an accident which led to serious injuries being sustained by a contractor working on a roof, the HSE was notified by the victims mother.
Figures released by the HSE show that there were 171 work related deaths between April 2010 and March 2011, an increase from last years fatal rate of 147 and that 26.4 million working days were lost to injury and ill.
An Inquiry into the death of Alison Hume who died after falling 45 feet down a mine near her home in Galston in Ayrshire in July 2008, has concluded that she might have survived if she had been rescued sooner.
Following a review of the 200 regulations and the 53 Approved Codes of Practice owned by the HSE, this report sets out recommendations designed to. . .