15th March 2024
Director of Building Safety for HSE, Philip White, has written to the Building Control industry outlining new transitional arrangements for the registration of building control inspectors […]
27th February 2024
An unregistered plumber has received a suspended prison sentence after he carried out illegal gas work at a house in Peterborough. Anthony Rice, trading as Rice […]
22nd February 2024
A recycling company in West Yorkshire has been fined £120,000 after batteries weighing at least 300kg fell onto an employee and severely injured him. The man […]
6th February 2024
HSE inspector Peter Lennon, a member of the investigation team that investigated the incident, has reflected on the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster in a blog On […]
31st January 2024
A Stockport-based stone worktop manufacturer has been fined £26,000 for repeatedly putting its workers at risk. Granite & Marble Shop Ltd failed to implement safe working […]
25th January 2024
A manufacturing company has been fined £15,000 after exposing its own workers to wood dust and failing to comply with two improvement notices. Wood dust can […]
24th January 2024
The HSE is aware of 3 fatal incidents in Great Britain since 2019, where the operator of a lorry loader has been crushed against the bodywork […]
30th June 2023
A London primary school has been fined £35,000 after a child received 45 per cent burns to their body at a carol concert. The school was […]
27th June 2023
A Runcorn business park operator has been fined £13,000 after a worker fell more than 13 feet through a fragile roof. The man sustained life-threatening injuries, […]