CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
26th July 2022
The number of people killed in agriculture-related activities in the last 12 months has fallen from its high level in 2021, but the rate of fatal […]
26th July 2022
Employers must make sure indoor workplace temperatures are reasonable No “maximum temperature” for workplaces in Great Britain Workers must take care to keep cool HSE shares […]
26th July 2022
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 […]
20th July 2022
A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a […]
13th July 2022
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 […]
13th July 2022
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 […]
7th July 2022
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 […]
30th June 2022
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 […]
30th June 2022
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 […]
28th June 2022
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. […]
28th June 2022
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 […]
20th June 2022
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 […]