CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
23rd January 2023
A company must pay more than £100k after one of its employees was left with life-changing injuries when a pallet of glass weighing more than one […]
20th January 2023
A construction company has been fined £146k after a joiner was crushed and killed by a 20-tonne excavator. Philip McDonald had been hired by Birch Brothers […]
20th January 2023
A director has been given a suspended prison sentence and two firms have been fined after a worker was killed when glass panes fell on top […]
18th January 2023
An Inverness company has been fined after a surveyor died from injuries caused by an electrical explosion. Christopher Wayne Earley, a director at CWE Asbestos Consultants […]
17th January 2023
A Greater Manchester company has been fined £180k after a female employee lost her hand after it was dragged into a machine. The Vita Cellular Foams […]
13th January 2023
Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to […]
10th January 2023
A council has been fined £280,000 after the death of a six-year-old girl who was hit by a falling tree in her school playground. Ella Henderson […]
6th January 2023
An aircraft maintenance company has been fined £230k after a worker fell from height while inspecting wings at its facility in Cardiff. Iain Mawson, a British […]
22nd December 2022
A property management company has been fined £200,000 after an employee was left in a wheelchair after falling eight metres through a rooflight. Robin Williamson, an […]
22nd December 2022
A building company has been fined £66,667 after a worker was injured when a floor that was under construction collapsed. The Lusson Ltd worker was one […]
22nd December 2022
A food production company has been fined £858,000 after an employee had his arm amputated after becoming entangled in an industrial food mixer. Lee Simpson was […]
15th December 2022
A family-run plumbing business has been fined £4,000 after a blind man fell into an open manhole. The 62-year-old registered-blind resident of Hanover Court, a sheltered […]