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 April 2024
As an employer, you have the same health and safety responsibilities for people working at home as for any other worker. This guidance applies to those […]
2nd April 2024
This April, Britain’s bosses are being invited to follow five simple steps to prevent and reduce stress in their workplace. The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) […]
29th March 2024
A company director has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect workers from exposure to asbestos at a student development project in Winchester. Stephen […]
29th March 2024
An Ipswich-based tobacco manufacturer has been fined £32,000 after failing to put measures in place to prevent access to the rotating blades of a ribbon blade […]
28th March 2024
A company in Kent has been fined £175,000 following the death of an employee. Liam McArdle, from Gravesend, was fatally crushed by an excavator attachment while […]
23rd March 2024
A company in Hertfordshire has been fined after an employee was crushed to death. James Rourke lost his life after being struck and run over by […]
19th March 2024
A metal processing company has been fined £12,000 after an employee sustained life changing injuries at an incident at a premises in the Oldbury in the […]
16th March 2024
One of the nation’s largest producers of supermarket pizzas has been fined £800,000 after two workers suffered serious injuries at its factory in Bolton. Stateside Foods […]
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 […]