 With Christmas fast approaching, Britains safety watchdog has moved to quell the expected avalanche of ridiculous health and safety myths. The Health and Safety Executive are often blamed for spoiling peoples fun around Yuletide by banning many activities people enjoy but [ read more...]
 Construction managers in Scotland are being reminded to secure their sites to reduce the risks of accidents during the Christmas shut-down. The warning comes from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which has had to investigate after members of the [ read more...]
 A road maintenance company has been fined £65,000 after a motorist was killed on the M6 in Lancashire. Cumbrian Industrials Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in relation to the incident and appeared before Preston Crown Court [ read more...]
 A printing company has been fined £20,000 after an investigation into a worker's injury exposed a series of health and safety breaches at its Bedfordshire factory. Flitwick firm Colpac Ltd and two of its directors - Terry Langton, of Huntsmead, Northampton, [ read more...]
 A food processing firm in County Durham has been fined £7,500 after a 22-year-old worker had two fingers amputated by a mixer machine. Ravendale Foods Limited, of Leadgate Industrial Estate, Consett, was fined on 14 December 2009 a total of £7,500 [ read more...]
 A large multinational Wednesbury-based firm has been fined by West Bromwich magistrates for health and safety breaches and failing to promptly report an injury. KTC (Edibles) Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc [ read more...]
 An organic farm has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the death of one of its employees. Daylesford Organic Farms Limited is based at Daylesford Hill Farm near Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire but registered in Mondovia, Liberia. [ read more...]
 A food production company has been fined £20,000 following an incident where a man had his fingertip severed at a factory in Southall. The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Noon Products Ltd, based in Egham, Surrey. The company pleaded [ read more...]
 An international freight forwarding company, K-Line Logistics (UK) Ltd has been fined £15,000 following the death of a worker in Feltham. Richard Gibbs, from Westminster, fell to his death through a fragile roof sheet on 31 January 2007 when he was [ read more...]
 Sellafield Ltd has been fined £75,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law after two contractors inhaled radioactive contamination. The prosecution follows an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into an incident on 11 July 2007 [ read more...]
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