CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
11th October 2021
A health and safety inspector has paid tribute to emergency responders who came to the aid of several children who were taken ill during a SCUBA […]
11th October 2021
W Gibson & Son was sentenced for safety breaches after a self-employed farm worker fell approximately three metres from a 360-excavator vehicle. Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard […]
11th October 2021
An engineering company has been fined after one of its employees suffered scalping injuries when her hair became entangled in a pillar drill. Coventry Magistrates’ Court […]
11th October 2021
Egger (UK) Limited has been fined after a self-employed lorry driver was killed making a routine delivery of recycled wood. Ayr Sheriff Court heard that on […]
11th October 2021
A roofer and a scaffolder have been sentenced following a fatal fall from height at a two-storey terraced house on Rosevine Road, Wimbledon. Southwark Crown Court […]
11th October 2021
A vertical farming, glasshouses and energy company has been sentenced after a worker came into contact with an 11kV overhead power line. Beverley Magistrates’ Court heard […]
11th October 2021
A roofing contractor has received a suspended sentence after an employee fell approximately 30 feet through a glass skylight on a warehouse roof in Blackburn. Preston […]
11th October 2021
A skip hire and waste management company and its managing director have been sentenced after a worker was seriously injured in a transport incident. Folkestone Magistrates’ […]
11th October 2021
A food manufacturing company has been sentenced after repeated failures to maintain safety devices on its food processing machinery. South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard that on […]
11th October 2021
A manufacturer of thermal and acoustic insulation panels has been fined after a worker’s hand was severed in a roller press at their site in Burton-on-Trent. […]
11th October 2021
A lighting manufacturer in Blackburn has been fined after an employee was fatally injured when the forklift truck he was driving struck an overhead steel beam. […]
11th October 2021
An asbestos removal company has been fined after a worker fell off a garage roof and fractured a vertebrae bone in his back. Aberdeen Sheriff Court […]