The importance of health and safety training qualifications has been highlighted by one industry expert after an incident in which a man was crushed by a forklift truckload.
Damon Alex McLaughlin had been operating telehandling machinery without stabilisers, causing the equipment to drop its three-tonne consignment on the banksman, resulting in him sustaining a broken back [...]

A Lincoln firm has been penalised after one of its employees was injured while working at height.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) fined A Nicoll and Son £2,500 when one of its staff, employed to clean windows at Lincoln College, fell four metres from a flat roof.
James Theaker, aged 50, broke eight ribs and injured [...]

An employment appeal tribunal has this week seen 16 employees of one south-east council winning an age discrimination campaign, it is reported.
According to LocalGov.co.uk, the staff from Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council claimed that criteria included in the local authority’s long service award scheme was an unlawful breach of Age Discrimination Regulations.
The council’s scheme [...]

The Trades Union Congress has called for the minimum wage to be put up to £6 an hour, an increase of 20p, in news which may interest HR professionals.
Ahead of its meeting with the Low Pay Commission, the group asserted that the increase could help to close the gender pay gap, as around two out [...]

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The Royal Mail postal strike may force HR departments to external and possible internal communication policy by opting to embrace technology more.
Benny Har-Even, technology editor at IT PRO, has claimed that businesses are likely to turn to technology as an alternative to the postal service as workers announce they will strike this week.
However, this could [...]

UK workplaces have improved their health and safety record, according to figures released by the Health and safety Executive (HSE).
The research has revealed that there have been significantly fewer people who have been killed, injured or suffered work-related ill health between April 2008 and March of this year.
Furthermore, the number of working days lost as [...]

A black detective has accused the Metropolitan police of racial discrimination, alleging that his superior treated him as "something repugnant on the soles of her feet", it is reported.
Detective sergeant Gareth Reid, 45, has claimed that he was humiliated by his manager after she learnt that he was once a member of the Black Police [...]

UK businesses need to be armed with the correct information about what they are able and unable to do in terms of work internships and placements, one sector commentator has claimed, which may see HR teams better able to cope with talent management.
Rachel Krys, campaign director of the Employers Forum on Age, said that "good [...]

In terms of employment law, supporting a member of staff who has been falsely accused of a misdemeanour – particularly if they are a teacher of work with young children – can be a tricky balancing act, it has been stated.
Trisha Pritchard, senior professional officer for the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses at Voice, said: [...]