CQMS News

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 […]

A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Two former company directors have been sentenced and fined after a refurbishment project at a former department store was found to have disturbed asbestos containing materials […]

A Manchester based construction company has been fined and its director sentenced to a community order of 200 hours unpaid work after workers disturbed asbestos during […]

A manufacturing company has been fined after a contractor sustained injuries whilst working on the top of a machine. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that, on 30 […]