CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
26th July 2022
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the death of a 27-year-old worker at a steelworks in Scunthorpe. The incident happened on Saturday 16 July […]
26th July 2022
The number of people killed in agriculture-related activities in the last 12 months has fallen from its high level in 2021, but the rate of fatal […]
26th July 2022
Employers must make sure indoor workplace temperatures are reasonable No “maximum temperature” for workplaces in Great Britain Workers must take care to keep cool HSE shares […]
26th July 2022
A building owner has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after an employee was left paralysed when a hoist platform he was working from plummeted […]
20th July 2022
A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a […]
13th July 2022
A Health Board has been fined following the death of a vulnerable patient who left a hospital ward unnoticed through an unsecured door. The Health and […]
13th July 2022
Laxtons Limited, a West Yorkshire manufacturing company, has been fined for safety breaches after a worker lost part of their hand in a textile machine. On […]
7th July 2022
A Blackburn based building contractor has been sentenced after unsafe work methods constituted a public risk and resulted in asbestos being disturbed. Preston Crown Court heard […]
30th June 2022
Carlsberg has been fined £3 million after a contractor died and another was seriously injured following an ammonia gas leak at one of its breweries. The […]
30th June 2022
A Blackburn based warehouse owner has been fined after an employee of a roofing contractor Nizamuddin Gorji fell approximately 30 feet through a glass skylight on […]
28th June 2022
A dismantling and demolition company has been fined after a worker fell 30 feet to his death when part of a pipe bridge platform gave way. […]
28th June 2022
A manufacturing company of concrete architectural elements and garden ornaments, and its director, have been fined after an employee sustained life-changing injuries when his arms became […]