Archive for the ‘Latest News’ Category

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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21/11/2011

10 school children…on a building site

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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 [...]

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08/11/2011

UK fatalities rise !

Last week, the HSE released its annual figures for workplace deaths – with an increase of 24 fatalities compared to the previous year. IOSH voiced its concerns over these statistics, suggesting the figure could be a delayed effect of the recession and‘belt-tightening’.

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03/11/2011

FREE!!! Health & Safety Diagnostics Tool

Wow! What a great free tool from the HSE, designed to measure your health & safety culture.   Its simple, easy to use and gives some great (if not painful) feedback with an action plan – check it out here: http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/lwit/step1.htm

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31/10/2011

Asbestos in Schools

In 2010/11 HSE focused on schools outside local authority control as the latest initiative in a series of interventions targeting asbestos management in schools. The primary aim of the intervention was to determine the level of compliance with CAR in a sample of targeted schools. HSE inspectors inspected a random sample of 164 non-local authority [...]

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28/10/2011

Protecting new workers

Workers are as likely to have an accident in the first six months at a workplace as during the whole of the rest of their working life.  The extra risk arises due to: lack of experience working in a new industry or workplace; lack of familiarity with the job and the work environment; reluctance to [...]

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18/10/2011

Safe Maintenance Campaign

The Health and Safety Executive, in partnership with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the EEF and the TUC, launched the UK’s involvement in the Healthy Workplaces European Campaign  on Safe Maintenance in London on 21 June 2010.  The Healthy Workplaces Europe-wide Campaign for 2010-2011 aims to promote safe and healthy workplaces by [...]

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