CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
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 […]
27th June 2023
A Runcorn business park operator has been fined £13,000 after a worker fell more than 13 feet through a fragile roof. The man sustained life-threatening injuries, […]
26th June 2023
Serco has been fined £240,000 after a man was killed when the lorry he was a passenger in crashed into litter picking vans blocking a lane […]
23rd June 2023
A manufacturing company has been fined after a dad was drawn into a machine and broke his arm in two places. Paul Pearce, a father-of-two from […]
21st June 2023
A private health care provider has been fined after three workers received treatment following exposure to chlorine gas. Anthony Coombes, an engineer from Sandhurst, Berkshire, was […]