Employers should not be able to penalise staff for using the toilet in work time, and should provide their employees with clean, modern lavatories, says the TUC this week, as it calls for a change in the law to bring workplace loos into the 21st century.
Back in 2003 when the TUC first launched its Gotta [...]

HSE inspectors are to launch an intensive inspection initiative aimed at stopping dangerous practices on building sites across Great Britain.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) wants to raise awareness of construction site risks and prevent unnecessary injuries and deaths.
Construction is one of Britain’s most dangerous industries. During 2008/09, 53 workers died and 11 264 were [...]

A company in Buckinghamshire has pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches following a man’s death.
The Health and Safety Executive reports Biffa Waste Services, of Coronation Road, Cressex in High Wycombe, appeared at West Berkshire Magistrates Court last week after a member of the public was killed at the Civic Amenity Site in Newbury.
Sentencing will [...]

Thousands of Britons with serious industrial diseases may now be able to receive compensation, even if they have so far missed out as a result of being unable to trace their employer’s insurance records, it has been revealed.
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the proposals in its new consultation paper, which aims to [...]

Slip, trip and fall incidents in the workplace cost 40 workers their lives last year and cost society an estimated £800 million each year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) warned today as it launched a hard-hitting campaign.
HSE figures show that slips and trips are the most common cause of major workplace injury in Britain. [...]

Employers have been advised to look to the Health and Safety Executive for advice on how to manage stress in the workplace.
Ann McCracken, chair of the International Stress Management Association UK, said Britons who are feeling stressed – which may have come as a result of the recent recession or concern over job security – [...]

Employers have been advised to look to the Health and Safety Executive for advice on how to manage stress in the workplace.
Ann McCracken, chair of the International Stress Management Association UK, said Britons who are feeling stressed – which may have come as a result of the recent recession or concern over job security – [...]

A Southend-based company has been prosecuted after an aircraft painter was severely injured in a fall – leaving him unable to work for more than two years.
Air Livery Plc, based at Southend Airport, Essex, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the five-metre fall at a base in Filton, Bristol, on 10 [...]

A leading global defence company has been fined £80,000 after a worker was killed in an explosion at its Lancashire site.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted BAE Systems Land Systems (Munitions and Ordnance) Ltd following Lynda Wilkins’ death at the company’s explosives plant on Central Avenue in Chorley.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Mrs Wilkins [...]

Productivity at businesses in Wales has been dented because of injuries in the workplace, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revealed.
During 2008-09, 5,470 people in the country suffered injuries that required them to take more than three days off work.
When combined with other absences caused by ill health as a result of work activities, [...]