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Free Daily Health Declaration for Staff Returning to Work
The government and many business leaders are talking about the need to get the economy back to work. Getting people back to work is a given. However getting people back to a shared workplace is not...
Horrible story. But this is where 'elf and safety crosses from someone's workplace into your leisure spaces
Vue Entertainment Ltd has been fined £750,000 for health and safety failures after a reclining seat came down on a man’s neck and killed him.
Farms are dangerous places, very high on the HSE lists for injuries and fatalities. Talk to us for advice on how to manage the risks
Speaking after sentencing HSENI Inspector Anne Cassidy said: “If farmers employ staff they have a responsibility to ensure their safety, whether full time or casual staff.
A wood working company and its director have been fined after an inspection by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found a series of failings and risks associated with significant quantities of asbestos-containing materials within the premises.
Bristol Crown Court heard that on 10 August 2016, during an unannounced visit to a workshop on Moravian Road, Bristol, the asbestos insulating board lining the building was found to be in very poor condition with many panels having extensive damage. Enforcement notices were served requiring the risks to be controlled and the asbestos materials to be removed by a licenced contractor.
Enquires further to the inspection identified that the company, and its director Wayne Braund, had failed to ensure a suitable and sufficient assessment was carried out to determine whether asbestos was present, and take relevant action to ensure any risks associated with the asbestos materials were controlled. They also fabricated documents to make it appear that the asbestos materials were going to be removed by a relevant licenced contractor.
Stairs2U (Bristol) Limited of The Old Bus Depot, Moravian Road, Bristol pleaded guilty to a charge under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. The company was fined £25,000.
Wayne Braund of Fieldgrove Lane, Bitton, Bristol pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for eighteen months and ordered to pay £25,000 costs.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Stacey Gamwell said: “The risks associated with asbestos-containing materials are well known and advice and guidance is freely available from HSE.
“Duty holders are required to manage the risks from asbestos in any non-domestic premises and ensure that a suitable and sufficient assessment is undertaken to identify asbestos-containing materials and ensure that any risks are controlled. “
“Employers should not undertake any work with asbestos materials which exposes their employees to asbestos unless the risks have been assessed and relevant control measures have been implemented. Work associated with many categories of asbestos materials including those in this case may only be undertaken by a suitably licenced asbestos removal contractor under stringent procedures.”
For separate offences prosecuted by the Fire Service, Mr Braund was sentenced to a further 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months. He was also fined £25,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 costs.
Bristol Crown Court heard that on 10 August 2016, during an unannounced visit to a workshop on Moravian Road, Bristol, the asbestos insulating board lining the building was found to be in very poor condition with many panels having extensive damage. Enforcement notices were served requiring the risks to be controlled and the asbestos materials to be removed by a licenced contractor.
Enquires further to the inspection identified that the company, and its director Wayne Braund, had failed to ensure a suitable and sufficient assessment was carried out to determine whether asbestos was present, and take relevant action to ensure any risks associated with the asbestos materials were controlled. They also fabricated documents to make it appear that the asbestos materials were going to be removed by a relevant licenced contractor.
Stairs2U (Bristol) Limited of The Old Bus Depot, Moravian Road, Bristol pleaded guilty to a charge under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. The company was fined £25,000.
Wayne Braund of Fieldgrove Lane, Bitton, Bristol pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment suspended for eighteen months and ordered to pay £25,000 costs.
Speaking after the hearing, HSE inspector Stacey Gamwell said: “The risks associated with asbestos-containing materials are well known and advice and guidance is freely available from HSE.
“Duty holders are required to manage the risks from asbestos in any non-domestic premises and ensure that a suitable and sufficient assessment is undertaken to identify asbestos-containing materials and ensure that any risks are controlled. “
“Employers should not undertake any work with asbestos materials which exposes their employees to asbestos unless the risks have been assessed and relevant control measures have been implemented. Work associated with many categories of asbestos materials including those in this case may only be undertaken by a suitably licenced asbestos removal contractor under stringent procedures.”
For separate offences prosecuted by the Fire Service, Mr Braund was sentenced to a further 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months. He was also fined £25,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 costs.
Whenever you are working anywhere near the general public you need to take your risk assessment and then treble it.
A utilities company has been fined after a member of the public suffered fatal injuries after falling into an excavation on a footpath.
So the HSE has released the numbers for 2021 death and injury at work.
Figures show hundred and 42 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2021 – that is an average of 2.7 people killed at work every single week. And that doesn’t of course include those who are killed whilst driving for work.
The 3 most common causes of fatal injuries continue to be
• workers falling from height
• being struck by a moving vehicle
• being struck by a moving object (other than a vehicle)
•
These three causes account for more than half of the fatalities.
All of these are preventable – all that is needed is some sensible practical advice. The mandatory wearing of lots of PPE is not the answer – at a guess I’m going to say that everybody who was killed by one of the above was wearing at least one piece of PPE.
Talk to us at Clearwater safety – and we work on risk management.
Figures show hundred and 42 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2021 – that is an average of 2.7 people killed at work every single week. And that doesn’t of course include those who are killed whilst driving for work.
The 3 most common causes of fatal injuries continue to be
• workers falling from height
• being struck by a moving vehicle
• being struck by a moving object (other than a vehicle)
•
These three causes account for more than half of the fatalities.
All of these are preventable – all that is needed is some sensible practical advice. The mandatory wearing of lots of PPE is not the answer – at a guess I’m going to say that everybody who was killed by one of the above was wearing at least one piece of PPE.
Talk to us at Clearwater safety – and we work on risk management.
So the HSE has released the numbers for 2021 death and injury at work.
Figures show hundred and 42 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2021 – that is an average of 2.7 people killed at work every single week. And that doesn’t of course include those who are killed whilst driving for work.
The 3 most common causes of fatal injuries continue to be
• workers falling from height
• being struck by a moving vehicle
• being struck by a moving object (other than a vehicle)
•
These three causes account for more than half of the fatalities.
All of these are preventable – all that is needed is some sensible practical advice. The mandatory wearing of lots of PPE is not the answer – at a guess I’m going to say that everybody who was killed by one of the above was wearing at least one piece of PPE.
Talk to us at Clearwater safety – and we work on risk management.
Figures show hundred and 42 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2021 – that is an average of 2.7 people killed at work every single week. And that doesn’t of course include those who are killed whilst driving for work.
The 3 most common causes of fatal injuries continue to be
• workers falling from height
• being struck by a moving vehicle
• being struck by a moving object (other than a vehicle)
•
These three causes account for more than half of the fatalities.
All of these are preventable – all that is needed is some sensible practical advice. The mandatory wearing of lots of PPE is not the answer – at a guess I’m going to say that everybody who was killed by one of the above was wearing at least one piece of PPE.
Talk to us at Clearwater safety – and we work on risk management.