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
Metal company prosecuted after employee falls from height Manchester Galvanizing Ltd, a manufacturer of coated metals, was fined after an employee suffered a fractured foot and […]
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. […]