A Barking firm has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee severed the tendons in his hand on an unguarded saw blade.
Workers exposed to asbestos fibres at college
An asbestos expert has been fined after workers under his supervision were exposed to potentially-deadly fibres at a college in Greater Manchester.
Firm fined over bulldozer driver death
A Surrey company has been sentenced for safety failings after a contractor was crushed to death at the London Gateway Port construction site in Essex.
Director and property owners prosecuted for trench collapse death
The director of a Hertfordshire building company and the co-owners of a south London property undergoing conversion have been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was killed in a trench collapse.
Firm fined after worker crushed to death
A ship repair and conversion company has been ordered to pay £98,500 in fines and costs after a worker was crushed to death when an anchor weighing almost three tonnes toppled onto him in a dry dock at Teesport.
Blackburn builders merchant fined over roof fall injury
A builders’ merchant has been sentenced after a man fell through the roof of its Blackburn warehouse.
3M Hearing Seminar 2013 – Manchester, 26 November 2013
This one day, free event is a forum to learn and discover about the latest topics surrounding hearing protection in the work place. You can expect to take away practical advice and best practice ideas to implement in your own place of work.
Liskeard landlord endangered lives by replacing gas boiler
A Cornish landlord risked the life of neighbours by carrying out work on a domestic gas boiler despite being unqualified to do so.
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Staffordshire man in court for illegal gas work
A Stoke-on-Trent man has been given a suspended prison sentence for multiple gas safety offences, including pretending to be Gas Safe registered, several breaches of legal orders banning him from carrying out gas work and falsifying a Landlord’s Gas Safety Record.