BSS accept Enhanced Learning Credits for the Armed forces / ex Armed forces
Armed forces personel have funding available to them from ELCAS (www.enhancedlearningcredits.com). ELCAS is an inititive to promote lifelong learning for members of the Armed forces. Funding is...
View ArticleFirms sentenced after factory worker finds brother dead
Two companies have been ordered to pay more than £450,000 in fines and costs for serious breaches of safety after a Stockport factory worker found his brother lying dead in the bed of a machine,The...
View ArticleUnsafe Work leads to fine and ban for director
The director of a Nottingham building firm has been fined after unsafe work on an asbestos cement roof.Russell Lloyd's company, Lloyd Home Improvements Ltd, now in liquidation, had been contracted to...
View ArticleWindermere garage fined after mechanic is badly burned
A garage in the Windermere area has been fined after a mechanic was badly burned when trying to cut the top off an empty oil drum.The 26-year-old employee was using a propane torch to remove the lid...
View ArticleDraft guidance on workplace first aid changes
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published new draft guidance to help employers get to grips with proposed changes to workplace first aid.Two pieces of guidance have been published following...
View ArticleLandscape gardener crushed by unsafe skip loader
A self-employed businessman has been given a suspended jail sentence for supplying unsafe construction equipment that led to the death of a father-of-six who was working on a garden in Reigate,...
View ArticleCouncil prosecuted after school caretaker injured in fall
A local council has been found guilty of breaching health and safety law after a school caretaker was injured in a fall from a shed roof in Oldham.The 61-year-old employee injured his knees, ankles,...
View ArticleNew T100 Module - Hazard Manager & Hazard Spotter App
T100 Hazard ManagerThis great new function will go Live on the T100 system over the Easter Bank holiday period. T100 Hazard Manager allows users to report hazards identified in the workplace, and then...
View ArticleBuilding firm sentenced after employee falls to death
A building firm and one of its directors have been sentenced after an employee fell 15 metres to his death in an empty water storage tank in Macclesfield.The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...
View ArticleHSE Consults on Workplace Health, Safety & Welfare ACOP – L24
Following an initial consultation in June 2012, it was agreed by the HSE Board that a number of ACOPs would be revised in line with the recommendation by Professor Löfstedt in his report ‘Reclaiming...
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