Health & Safety – £1.8 million fine after Legionella failure
G4S Cash Solutions has been fined £1.8 million after failing to reduce the risk of Legionnaires’ disease from its water systems.
G4S are the largest secure solutions company in the world, and G4S Cash Solutions (UK) provide secure cash management… Health & Safety – Care home owners fined
Care home owners fined £380k following fire
Care Home owners Shaftesbury Care Group Ltd have been sentenced following five breaches of fire safety regulations at Donwell House Care Home in Washington.
The fire destroyed a bedroom, damaged a corridor and… Health & Safety – Changes to Chemical Labelling and Packaging
Globally Harmonised System and CLP Regulations
Have you made the appropriate changes to how you assess and make sure your employees are aware of the changes to the phrasing, pictograms and safety data sheets in chemical labelling and packaging?
The… Health & Safety – School fined after worker fell from height
A school has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a worker was injured as he fell from a roof. After admitting breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, the school was fined £40,000 and… Health & Safety – Manual Handling & Ergonomics
909,000 Work Days Lost to Manual Handling Injuries
Over the year of 2013-2014 it was estimated that 909,000 work days were lost in Great Britain due to handling injuries. That’s almost a million days off work across the country, and… Health and Safety – COSHH Frequently Asked Questions
What is COSHH?
COSHH is the law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health. You can prevent or reduce workers exposure to hazardous substances by:
• finding out what the health hazards are
• deciding how… Health & Safety – Health Surveillance
Health surveillance
Involve your workers
Statutory medicals
Specific requirements for health surveillance
Occupational health referral
Health surveillance is about systematic, regular checks on workers to identify early signs of ill health, and then acting on the results.
Health surveillance is… Health & Safety – Changes to Posters
The old Health and Safety poster expires on 5 April 2014
As part of HSE’s commitment to make health and safety information more accessible, we have published a simplified version of the Health and Safety Law poster. The changes make… Health & Safety – Are You Compliant?
As Business people we know that Statutory Health & Safety requirements have to be met and the legal necessity to ensure compliance rests squarely with the Proprietor / Partners / Directors of each and every company.
Two main pieces of…