Airbus fined £200,000 after worker’s death
Aeroplane manufacturer Airbus has been fined following the death of an employee who was crushed...
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Aeroplane manufacturer Airbus has been fined following the death of an employee who was crushed...
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The TUC is warning today (Monday) on Workers’ Memorial Day that the government’s persistent...
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A worker had his lower body crushed when a stack of bales, each weighting a quarter of a tonne,...
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New laws designed to recover the estimated £44 million annual cost of investigating workplace...
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A Stoke firm, which designs and manufactures trailers for commercial vehicles, has been sentenced...
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Farmers are being warned about the risk of electrocution while at work. Cornish Mutual is...
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Over a thousand fatalities a year on British roads involve someone at work British company...
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At Langanside Crown Court Walter C Campbell Joinery has been fined £2K plus £1,750 in costs over a...
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There’s a fascinating TV programme on the National Geographic Channel I enjoy called Air...
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A 45-year old linesman was electrocuted as he worked to remove a transformer in Diss, Norfolk, on...
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HSE say a fatal accident in which a man fell from a wall as he worked on CCTV cameras above the M5 could have been prevented if it wasn’t for the major failings in the way his work was planned. An HSE official commented...
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According to the latest figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) the number of workplace fatalities in the UK has significantly increased over the past year. In 2010-11, the number of workplace deaths in the UK...
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teenage worker severed part of his hand while operating a vertical panel saw on which he had...
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The HSE has recently published its workplace fatal injury statistics for Great Britain of...
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The vast majority of compensation claims made by workers as a consequence of being injured at work or made ill by work are small value. It is a fact that the legal costs incurred in bringing and defending the claim often far...
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I came across a worrying new statistic the other day from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)....
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