Gas Safety Week is an annual safety week to raise awareness of gas safety. To mark the week, Gas Safe Register has launched an interactive gas map identifying the most dangerous postcodes in the country by revealing how many unsafe gas appliances have been found lurking in your area.
Gas Safety Week: 16 – 22 September 2013
Gas Safety Week is an annual safety week to raise awareness of gas safety. To mark the week, Gas Safe Register has launched an interactive gas map identifying the most dangerous postcodes in the country by revealing how many unsafe gas appliances have been found lurking in your area.
Southport firm sentenced over teenage biker’s death
A Southport firm has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 in fines and costs following the death of a teenager who came off his motorbike when it collided with a metal cable strung between two trees.
Norwich director gets suspended prison and community service for dangerous electrics
The director of a Norwich giftware manufacturing company has been given a suspended six-month prison sentence and 180 hours of community service for safety failings in relation to electrical systems at the company’s premises.
Chemical classification – updated website
Updated guidance and information on GHS, CLP Regulation and CHIP now available on the HSE website.
Judith Hackitt’s ‘Risk Assessment’: The way forward – leadership
The way in which all parts of the offshore industry has responded to the Shetland helicopter ditching is important – they have shown leadership in taking the initial decision to suspend flights and in the subsequent decision to reinstate them.
Construction firm in court over major city centre gas scare
A construction firm has appeared in court over a major gas leak which caused widespread disruption and sparked fears of an explosion in Liverpool city centre.
Builder fined after worker falls through roof
A Leicestershire builder has been fined for safety failings after a sub-contractor broke his neck and arm when he fell through a fragile roof light.
Competent Authority position on the COMAH regulation of Heavy Fuel Oil
Publication outlining the position on the regulation of HFO under the Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 1999 (COMAH), published on 18 June 2013 by the COMAH Competent Authority (Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Natural Resources Wales), is available on the HSE website.
Safety failings put West Sussex firm in court
A Worthing company that makes audio equipment used by leading recording studios has been fined after a worker broke an arm in an unguarded machine.