CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
28th March 2024
A company in Kent has been fined £175,000 following the death of an employee. Liam McArdle, from Gravesend, was fatally crushed by an excavator attachment while […]
23rd March 2024
A company in Hertfordshire has been fined after an employee was crushed to death. James Rourke lost his life after being struck and run over by […]
19th March 2024
A metal processing company has been fined £12,000 after an employee sustained life changing injuries at an incident at a premises in the Oldbury in the […]
16th March 2024
One of the nation’s largest producers of supermarket pizzas has been fined £800,000 after two workers suffered serious injuries at its factory in Bolton. Stateside Foods […]
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 […]