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A plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 in relation to the death of a cleaner at its depot in Rochdale.
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The operator of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) must pay nearly £500,000 in fine and costs after a member of the public fell on the track and was crushed to death by a train.
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A worker was buried alive underneath rubble after part of an office block collapsed at a construction site in Lancashire.
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Steel manufacturer Corus UK Ltd has been fined £100,000 after an overloaded mobile crane overturned – its second prosecution in the space of two weeks.
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Definitive guidelines have been published to help courts deal with organisations that cause death through a gross breach of care, or where a health and safety offence is a significant cause of a death.
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A care home has been slammed for failing to put necessary safeguards in place to ensure the safety of vulnerable residents.
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A scaffolder has received £90,000 in an out-of-court settlement after he suffered several fractures and a dislocated shoulder following a 12-metre fall at Drax Power Station in Selby, North Yorkshire.
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A driver was crushed to death between two buses in a garage that was housing almost twice as many vehicles as it was designed to accommodate.
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High street retailer New Look has been fined £400,000 and ordered to pay £136,052 in costs after pleading guilty to two breaches
of fire safety legislation, following a serious fire at its Oxford Street store in London.
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A rice manufacturing company has been fined £140,000 after a factory worker was trapped in a conveyor for several hours before dying of
shock.
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A boss at a pet food company, who had volunteered to be the sole director responsible for health and safety, has been fined £10,000
after a worker was crushed to death.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to implement and maintain safe systems of work and to offer full training
to staff to ensure that the health and safety of employees is not put at risk.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today warned tower crane suppliers to make sure staff are adequately trained when
carrying out high risk operations.
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A director of Maureen O’Brien Ltd (in administration) – the company which formerly owned the high street chain Joy – has been ordered
to pay over £5,500 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety legislation.
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The two main British health and safety enforcing bodies, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Local Authorities
Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS), have struck a new partnership to tackle the £20 billion cost of workplace
death, injury and illness.
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Health and safety cannot be contracted out, it is not about ticking boxes, it is at the core of all our businesses, and it is the responsibility of all us to improve and promote it.
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A much anticipated Government report was published on 26the March 2009 by the Communities and Local Government Department regarding
the impact and effectiveness the Fire Safety Order (FSO).
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