CQMS News
Stay up-to-date with the latest health and safety news from CQMS. Also, check out recent HSE and Corporate Manslaughter prosecutions.
27th April 2015
Animal feed firm fined £600,000 over lorry driver’s death An animal feed company has been fined following the death of a lorry driver who was buried […]
27th April 2015
Window firm fined after worker’s severe hand injury A window manufacturing firm was fined £10,000 after a worker was seriously injured while using a chop saw […]
23rd April 2015
Fatality at construction site leads to fine Mark Hammond was fined £12,500 after a 21 year old worker was electrocuted whilst carrying out works in the […]
22nd April 2015
Fine for unsafe gas work Terence Moulton, trading as Terry Moulton Building Services, was fined £800 with £924.32 costs at Birmingham and Solihull Magistrates’ Court after […]
21st April 2015
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, found not guilty of corporate manslaughter On 21 April 2015, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was charged after a […]
17th April 2015
Steel firm sentenced over North Yorkshire worker’s death A Sheffield steel company has been sentenced after a catalogue of safety failings led to a 42-year-old worker […]
14th April 2015
Two companies were fined after two electricians suffered severe burns while working on live electrical equipment at a plant in Glenrothes, Scotland. The incident occurred when […]
13th April 2015
Farm fined after serious ATV injury A farming company was fined £2,000 and ordered to pay costs of £483 after the fiancée of one of the […]
13th April 2015
Narrow escape for victims of “incompetent” brothers Two Sheffield brothers were jailed for safety failures after a building collapse left three injured, up to 20 people […]
11th April 2015
The HSE have issued this Safety Alert to highlight the issue of chloride stress corrosion cracking which has been found to affect stainless steel (grade 316/316L) […]
30th March 2015
Pyranha Mouldings Limited, sentenced for corporate manslaughter and fined £200,000, plus costs of £90,000 Following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the trial Judge passed sentence […]
26th January 2015
Firm in court after worker paralysed in roof fall An East Lothian firm has been fined for serious safety failings after a worker was left paralysed […]