Health & Safety – High school fined after the fatal injury of a child
In June a high school in Chelmsford was fined after a child died when a locker in a changing room fell on top of him.
Nine-year-old Leo Latifi was fatally injured during after-school swimming lesson at the sports centre of… Health & Safety – Competent contractors?
In June, Bournemouth Crown Court sentenced a self-employed gas engineer who used false registration numbers after carrying out gas work and for also breaching an HSE Prohibition Notice.
The engineer carried out work at properties in Dorset between December 2017… Health & Safety – The mental health impact of working from home
Lloyds Resister have recently published a report, ‘Employee well-being during a pandemic’, based on a survey of 5,500 people in 11 countries taken during December 2020. The aim of the survey was to determine the mental health impact caused by… Health & Safety – Prosecutions following the fatal fire at Cameron House Hotel
Last month Cameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd, the owners of the Cameron House Hotel, plead guilty to two separate offences under the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 at Dumbarton Sheriff Court following a fire in December 2017 which tragically claimed… Health & Safety – Homeworking – 9 months on, and counting…
I wonder how many of us, who were able to work from home since last March, still expected to be doing so some nine months on, and counting? Back then it may have been assumed that these homeworking arrangements would… Health & Safety – HSE autumn spot checks of schools
During the autumn 2020 term HSE carried out spot checks to determine the measures schools were taking to minimise the spread of Covid-19. 500 Scottish schools in 16 local authorities were contacted, these included schools in both the state and… Health & Safety – Extension to first aid certificate requalification
HSE have announced recent change to requalification requirements for First Aid at Work, and Emergency First Aid at Work certificates.
First Aid at Work or Emergency First at Work certificates that expired after 16th March 2020 can remain valid until… Health & Safety – Returning to the workplace post lockdown
The next chapter in the new normality – returning to the workplace post lockdown
Introduction
For many the new normality over these past weeks has been adapting, very quickly, to working from home over an extended period. For many others… Health & Safety – Temporary home working
For many employers having employees working from home has never been a consideration and equally many employees will have never worked from home before. With the appropriate consideration and resources, a homeworker should be no less effective than they would… Health & Safety – The hazards of ‘hot working’
Insurance company Zurich estimate that around 15% of all workplace fires are as a result of ‘hot work’. Hot work refers to work activities that involve open flames, applying heat or friction, or may generate sparks or heat.
Common examples…