 A consultation is being held in Scotland's largest city to help a health and safety watchdog develop a new strategy. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be holding the event in Glasgow's Crowne Plaza Hotel on [ read more...]
 A consultation on workplace health and safety has been launched by a leading industry watchdog. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has invited stakeholders in its new strategy to meetings in key cities around the UK. [ read more...]
 An organisation is advising insurance vendors they have a part to play in ensuring clients comply with health and safety legislation. Reminding firms several pieces of legislation are in place which business customers should be aware of, Allianz [ read more...]
 South Birmingham Primary Care Trust (PCT) has been fined £20,000 after its failure to conduct adequate risk assessments led to the death of an elderly woman. It will also pay costs of £17,500 after pleading guilty to breaching the read more...]
 A Bristol company has been fined £200,000 after breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 led to the death of a member of the public. Western Power Distribution has also been ordered to pay costs of [ read more...]
 Two offshore firms have been prosecuted over the death of an employee in an accident caused by the lack of an adequate risk assessment. Shell UK and the Amec Group have each been fined £150,000 plus £41,500 in [ read more...]
 Businesses planning to enter the 2009 Occupational Health and Safety Awards should start preparing if they are to make the deadline, the organisers warn. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (Rospa), which holds the event, will [ read more...]
 Scots are the most likely to blow the whistle if health and safety conditions in their workplaces are not of an adequate standard, new research shows. Figures produced by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) reveal [ read more...]
 A Normanton company has been fined £3,000 after an accident which led to an employee losing a finger. Napier Brown and Company will also pay £2,446 in costs, pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and [read more...]
 A series of health and safety inspections in the south-east has entered its second phase with the inclusion of an additional 98 properties. The Common Approach to Kent Enterprise (Cake) has completed its second week with the issuing [ read more...]
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