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 December 2015
Concrete company find after worker crushed by stairs A company which produces precast concrete products has been fined for safety failings that led to the death […]
10th December 2015
A building firm which was fined £200,000 following the death of a 28-year-old worker who was fatally crushed when a 2.9 metre retaining wall collapsed onto him, has […]
10th December 2015
Worker injured falling from roof Redditch Magistrates’ Court heard how Woodhull Roofing Limited were refurbishing the roof at Pitcheroak Primary School, Willow Way, Redditch when a […]
9th December 2015
Worker injures hand in cropping machine A company producing lights for trucks has been fined after a workers’ hand was injured in a cropping machine. Sandwell […]
9th December 2015
Worker loses part of finger in pie machine A company who produces cakes and pastries has been fined after a worker lost part of her finger […]
9th December 2015
Man fined for unlicensed removal of asbestos A Surrey man was fined for exposing the residents of a house in Putney, himself and his assistant to […]
3rd December 2015
A sixth suspected case of Legionnaires’ disease is being investigated at a South Tyneside factory. Faltec Europe Ltd in Boldon closed down its cooling towers in […]
1st December 2015
A fatal incident at a Merseyside woodchip factory – described by one HSE inspector as his “most horrific case” – has seen two firms ordered to […]
7th September 2015
Linley Developments, convicted of corporate manslaughter and fined £200,000, plus costs of £25,000 Hertfordshire building firm, Linley Developments has been sentenced for the corporate manslaughter of […]
21st August 2015
Suspended prison sentences for Torbay brothers’ poor gaswork An unregistered gas fitter and his brother illegally installed a gas boiler and left it in a dangerous […]
20th August 2015
Construction Company fined for unsecure site A construction company has been fined for safety failings which led to a two-year-old boy wandering onto a building site. […]
19th August 2015
Two companies fined for serious breaches in the removal of asbestos A construction management company and a director of a construction company were fined for serious […]