CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
27th January 2014
Contractor in court for ignoring safety risks A self-employed building contractor from Chippenham has been fined for exposing workers to serious risk of injury after they […]
20th November 2013
Watersports Club Fined Entire Company Assets After Tragic Speedboat Incident Prince’s Sporting Club Ltd, a watersports club in Middlesex, has been fined the entirety of its […]
1st November 2013
Wood firm in court over worker injury A timber company has been sentenced after a worker sustained significant hand injuries after it came into contact with […]
13th September 2013
Essex builders sentenced over scaffold fall A building firm was fined £11,000 with costs of £7729 after a site manager dismantled scaffolding and later fell from […]
30th January 2013
MNS Mining Ltd charged following tragic death of four miners The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is prosecuting both the manager and the company who operated the […]
1st December 2012
Piling contractor fined for neglecting safety A specialist piling contractor has been fined £16,000 after it was found to be operating a powerful rig without a […]
20th November 2012
PS & JE Ward, who run a flower nursery Belmont in Norfolk, have been charged with corporate manslaughter in relation to the death of an employee […]
11th November 2012
The HSE is issuing this notice to those who use, install, maintain or distribute wood pellet boilers or manufacture/store/distribute wood pellets. Since 2002 there have been […]
28th October 2012
LPG supplier fined following tanker gas leak An LPG supplier has been fined £25,000 after a large leakage from a tanker caused the emergency services to […]
11th October 2012
This alert is to warn operators that fire resistant composite materials, especially FRP deck gratings, used offshore may fail, or lose integrity, after exposure to relatively […]
11th September 2012
This safety bulletin draws attention to key aspects of the proper management of the risks from legionella in water systems other than cooling towers and evaporative […]
20th July 2012
Lion Steel maintenance worker Steven Berry died from his injuries after an accident on 28 May 2008 when he fell through a fibreglass roof light 13 […]