Welcome to the latest health & safety newsletter.
Review of safety legislation for passenger shipsWe review the recent Costa Concordia tragedy and how it may have an impact upon the legislative regime governing passenger vessels.
RIDDOR due to change on 6 April 2012More details on the impending changes to RIDDOR’s (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) over three day injury reporting requirements.
Government reveals first regulations for the chop post-LöfstedtInformation regarding the Government-launched consultation that represents the first step in its bid to reduce health and safety legislation by half over the next two years.
Tribunal rules against worker blacklisted for raising health and safety concernsA construction worker may go to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that UK law does not sufficiently protect agency workers.
HSE announces another challenge panel to help rebut mythsThe HSE is inviting the public to inform it about absurd claims, or decisions made by non-regulators, that bring health and safety into disrepute, so that a new dedicated challenge panel can quickly disprove them.
Worker loses leg during building Arsenal StadiumThree companies have been fined after a worker was seriously injured during work to construct Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
Serious injuries after fall through skylightA worker broke two bones in his spine, fractured his pelvis and injured his arm after falling though a skylight.
Salmon farm fined £70,000 after drowningMore information on the case of worker, Peter Duce, who died after the overloaded boat he and four colleagues were using filled with water and capsized in February 2008.
Roofing firm prosecutedA company has been fined after a roofer fell more than two metres in October 2009 while working on the removal and replacement of a garage roof in North Wales.