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The latest news from the Health & Safety Executive

Consultation on changes to simplify RIDDOR: Impact assessment

Fri, 17 May 2013

May 2013 update – Impact assessment on HSE’s consultation to simplify and clarify the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences (RIDDOR) is now available...... Read more

Consultation on proposals to exempt self-employed workers from health and safety law: Impact assessment

Fri, 17 May 2013

May 2013 update – Impact assessment for this consultation is now available...... Read more

Safety in Ports – Last chance to have your say

Fri, 17 May 2013

This consultation sets out proposals to publish an Approved Code of Practice on Safety in Ports. Consultation period ends 22 May 2013...... Read more

Case 172 – Staff shortage on train resulted in buffet service being stopped

Thu, 16 May 2013

The enquirer was travelling on a train which, due to a staff absence, cancelled the first class buffet car service on health and safety grounds...... Read more

Tyre firm fined after worker injured

Wed, 15 May 2013

A Burton-on-Trent tyre collection and recycling company has been fined after a teenage worker was seriously injured when he was hit by a falling stack of tyres...... Read more

Staff and public exposed to asbestos during refurbishment work

Wed, 15 May 2013

A decorating company has been fined after it exposed employees, agency staff and members of the public to potentially fatal asbestos material...... Read more

Firm in court after worker’s life-changing injuries

Wed, 15 May 2013

Wienerberger Limited has been fined for safety failings after a worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell from the roof of an industrial brick oven at a site in Bishop Auckland...... Read more

HSE Jobs – Press and Public Relations (PR) Officer

Tue, 14 May 2013

This is a rare opportunity to join an award-winning team working on a high profile news agenda, supporting HSE’s work to reduce the number of people killed, injured and made unwell by their work...... Read more

HSE Jobs – Senior Press Officer

Tue, 14 May 2013

This is a rare opportunity to join an award-winning team working on a high profile news agenda, supporting HSE’s work to reduce the number of people killed, injured and made unwell by their work...... Read more

East of England firms in court for employee fall

Tue, 14 May 2013

Two companies have been fined for safety failings after a worker suffered life-changing injuries when he plunged ten metres through a perspex rooflightonto a concrete floor at a Hertfordshire farm...... Read more

Firms in court after worker fell from unguarded scaffolding

Tue, 14 May 2013

Two firms have been prosecuted after a labourer suffered multiple injuries in a fall from unguarded scaffolding...... Read more

New occupational cancer case study

Tue, 14 May 2013

This case study relating to carcinogens is an example of HSE working in partnership with industry to help develop a workable solution to reduce worker exposure to Hydrazine Hydrate – a Category 2 Carcinogen..... Read more

Companies and director sentenced after worker’s fatal fall

Mon, 13 May 2013

The director of a concrete structures firm has been ordered to pay a total of £25,000 in fines and costs after a worker died following a fall from height at a Swansea building site...... Read more

Nottinghamshire plumber fined after putting family at risk

Mon, 13 May 2013

A Nottinghamshire plumber has been fined after putting his son and a young family at risk of exposure to asbestos...... Read more

Latest Health and Safety Newsletter available online

Mon, 13 May 2013

Inside: Myth busting – how some half-baked decisions take the biscuit. We look at a year of myth busting, health surveillance made easier – HSE launches new online guidance, plus lots more including court stories, real-life case studies and new guidance...... Read more

Roofing company in court for ignoring safety risks

Fri, 10 May 2013

A roofing company has been fined for exposing workers to serious risk of injury at a site in Deeside, Flintshire. The work involved replacing fragile asbestos cement roof sheets with metal roof cladding, no safeguards had been put in place to prevent a fall from height while this hazardous work was being carried out...... Read more

Revision of HSE guidance: Health and Safety in Care Homes

Fri, 10 May 2013

This consultation seeks your views on the revision of HSE guidance Health and Safety in Care Homes (HSG 220), originally published in 2001. Consultation opens 8 May and closes on 5 July 2013...... Read more

Worker fell through pig shed roof after firm ignored safety warnings

Thu, 09 May 2013

A York firm that fits solar panels has been prosecuted after an employee fell four metres through the fragile roof of a pig shed at an East Yorkshire farm...... Read more

New appointment to the HSE Board

Thu, 09 May 2013

John Morgan has been appointed to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Board as a non-executive director...... Read more