Archive for the ‘Latest News’ Category
05/12/2011
SAFETY ALERT – Mobile crushing plant – unintended movement of tracks
Investigation of a fatal incident by HSE has identified that unintended movement of some mobile crushers can occur when there is an earth/ground fault. This can result in unintended movement of the machine track(s) and the potential for injuries from being struck by or trapped by the machine. Where damage/deterioration of the electrical control cables [...]
30/11/2011
Safety rules to be relaxed to boost apprenticeships
From the start of next year, training providers and employers offering apprenticeships will no longer have to comply with any requirements that go ‘above and beyond’ health and safety legislation. Announcing new measures last week as part of the Government’s Plan for Growth, Business secretary Vince Cable said red tape that can deter employers [...]
29/11/2011
Bags of asbestos and large sheets have been illegally dumped in two areas of Leicester.
The waste was found on Freeman Road North in early November and a week later more was discovered at Thurnby Lodge Boys Club on Thurncourt Road. In both cases, corrugated asbestos waste was found in large sheets or smashed up and sealed in plastic bags. Leicester City Council’s environmental crime team said it was investigating. [...]
28/11/2011
Summary of Prof. Lofstedt’s report into H&S in the UK
Below is an excerpt from the Executive Summary from Professor Lofstedts report into H&S in the UK. I think that its bang on accurate ….misinterpretation is killing safe practices (no pun intended) and causing overkill (still no pun intended) In general, the problem lies less with the regulations themselves and more with the way they [...]
28/11/2011
Workers reveal time lost to errors
Three quarters of workers have said they waste up to two hours every week because they do not understand how to get their work completed. The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) surveyed 2,000 workers and three out of four said hours were wasted due to management giving unclear information and no direction. The CMI calculated [...]
25/11/2011
Man dies after tyre blast at firm
A man has died in hospital after a tyre explosion at a small family business in Wales. The victim, who has yet to be named, is thought to have been inflating a tyre at the metal fabrication workshop in Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire, when the accident happened. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue service sent [...]
24/11/2011
Presenteeism V Flexible Working
Two-fifths of workers feel under pressure to be seen at work in a growing trend that has been blamed on the tough economic times, a study has said. More than a quarter thought the amount of time spent at their office desk was considered a measurement of their performance, said the survey which found an [...]
23/11/2011
Include work related roads traffic accidents into official stats
IOSH has called for the Government to include work-related road traffic accidents into official occupational health and safety statistics, insisting that employers have “a moral and legal responsibility to look after their employees every mile of their business trips”. Speaking at the start of Road Safety Week (21-27 November), an IOSH spokesman said: “Each and [...]
21/11/2011
Continued fall in workplace injury
New figures published today show the ongoing trend for falls in the number of people injured and made unwell at work has continued. The statistics published by the HSE show that in Britain between April 2010 and March 2011: 24,726 major injuries were reported, such as amputations, fractures and burns, to employees – compared with [...]
