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> News of the day < The owner of a Spar convenience store has been fined after an 18-year-old employee injured her finger while using an unguarded meat slicer.Waynes Foods, which owns the outlet where the accident happened, admitted five health and safety breaches, including failing to provide adequate training and failing to properly guard the machine.The incident happened in August [...] |
A theme park has been fined £250,000 after a teenager plunged 100ft from a water ride, suffering fatal injuries.Sunday-school teacher Hayley Williams had been visiting the Oakwood leisure park in Pontypool, Pembrokeshire with family and friends when the incident happened. She decided to go on the Hydro ride, described as “Europe’s fastest and wettest rollercoaster”, [...]
The HSE is consulting on proposed revisions to the Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (CHIP) as a result of the EU’s adoption of the Global Harmonised System for classifying and labelling chemicals (GHS).The GHS was implemented in Europe via the European Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures [...]
The European Parliament voted decisively to end the UKs opt-out from Europe’s 48 hour average working week.
The stress experienced by workers in higher education greatly exceeds levels laid down in the Health and Safety Executive’s management standards, according to the college union UCU.
Before the Festivities get in to full swing here are a few ‘Festive’ incidents from ‘Christmas Past’
Construction and engineering firm Taylor Woodrow has been hit with a £200,000 fine following the death of a site supervisor during the construction of the National Assembly for Wales’ Senedd building in Cardiff.John Walsh had been employed by subcontractors Ferson Construction Services to build a supporting wall outside the concrete frame of the building, creating [...]
Before the Festivities get in to full swing here are a few ‘Festive’ incidents from ‘Christmas Past’
A transport manufacturing firm has been fined £5000 after a 19-year-old man’s hand was crushed by a machine.Matthew Parker was working on a three roll bending machine at the W H Davies plant in Mansfield, when his glove got caught, drawing his hand into the counter-rotating rollers. He suffered crippling injuries, including four broken fingers. [...]