CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
13th January 2023
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to […]
10th January 2023
A council has been fined £280,000 after the death of a six-year-old girl who was hit by a falling tree in her school playground. Ella Henderson […]
6th January 2023
An aircraft maintenance company has been fined £230k after a worker fell from height while inspecting wings at its facility in Cardiff. Iain Mawson, a British […]
22nd December 2022
A property management company has been fined £200,000 after an employee was left in a wheelchair after falling eight metres through a rooflight. Robin Williamson, an […]
22nd December 2022
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one […]
22nd December 2022
A food production company has been fined £858,000 after an employee had his arm amputated after becoming entangled in an industrial food mixer. Lee Simpson was […]
15th December 2022
A family-run plumbing business has been fined £4,000 after a blind man fell into an open manhole. The 62-year-old registered-blind resident of Hanover Court, a sheltered […]
15th December 2022
A Scottish confectionery and meringue manufacturer has been fined £5,000 after a worker was badly injured in a fall from a forklift truck. The employee of […]
7th December 2022
A fire authority has been fined after a firefighter was trapped underneath a car in a training exercise, breaking his legs in more than a dozen […]
2nd December 2022
The wife of a man left severely disabled by a workplace accident says he is a “stranger in her husband’s body”. Sue McFarlane’s partner John suffered […]
2nd December 2022
A plumbing and heating engineer has been jailed for 20 weeks after carrying out illegal gas work. Peter Read, who traded as A.C.E Plumbing and Heating […]
2nd December 2022
A chemicals company has been fined £800,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries in an explosion. The employee of International Paint Limited spent eight days in […]
