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10 employees are killed driving for work EACH WEEK!
Dying to get to work? Ten or more of us are each week. More than 30 people die every week on UK roads – a third of them driving for work. It is not just bus, coach and truck drivers but the motorists going to or from a meeting or appointment who are most at…
Biscuit factory facing legal action after former worker dies following exposure to asbestos
One of Liverpool’s largest employers is facing legal action after a former worker died following exposure to lethal quantities of asbestos. Mother-of-seven Isabel O’Neill, 74, was diagnosed with a vigorous cancer linked to toxic asbestos materials. Suspicion has now fallen on the Jacob’s Biscuits factory on Long Lane, Merseyside, as the source of her contamination. Mrs…
Airbus fined £200,000 after worker’s death
Aeroplane manufacturer Airbus has been fined following the death of an employee who was crushed between a tractor and a fertiliser spreader at the firm’s plant in Broughton. The company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found Donny Williams and his co-workers had received no training on how to…
More workers ‘risk injury and death’ due to Health and Safety changes
The TUC is warning today (Monday) on Workers’ Memorial Day that the government’s persistent ideological attacks on key health and safety legislation threaten even more accidents, injuries and deaths at work. In a new report published today Toxic, Corrosive and Hazardous: The government’s record on health and safety, the TUC reveals that in the last four…
Tribute to the RMT leader, Bob Crow, who died this week
RMT general secretary Bob Crow died on Tuesday, aged 52, after suffering a heart attack. A key figure in UK union history, Crow was well-known for the passion and energy he put in all his battles. His rivalry with Mayor of London Boris Johnson, with whom he had frequently clashed – particularly during the recent…
People who have been bereaved should not be isolated, says Joe Levenson
You work for both the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) and the Dying Matters Coalition. Can you briefly describe the roles these organisations have? The NCPC is an umbrella organisation, which works on behalf of organisations involved in providing end of life care, so it might be hospices or other end of life care…
Kate Nowlan: How to deal with critical incidents
When was the last time that planning or preparing for critical incidents reached the top of your to do list? Is it something you’ve ever even given any consideration to? Or is it something that only became a priority when something bad has happened? The place to start – which is perhaps what puts many…
Joe Levenson: We need to talk about dying: bereavement support in the workplace
Every minute someone in the UK dies, and almost half of us report having been bereaved in the last five years. Yet society’s response, including in the workplace, often falls short – making it even harder for people to come to terms with the loss of someone close to them. All too frequently people who…
Bereaved people being failed by lack of support in the workplace
Bereaved people across Britain are being failed by a lack of support including in the workplace, according to a new report published by the National Council for Palliative Care, in partnership with the Dying Matters Coalition which it leads and the National Bereavement Alliance. Today’s report, ‘Life after death: six steps to improve support in…
Louise Ryan: Limiting workplace risks amid changes to first aid
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has made some significant amendments to the way businesses maintain compliance with first aid legislation. Intended to ‘reduce the burden on businesses and put common sense back in to health and safety,’ the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 now state that HSE no longer needs to approve…
What is the most common cause of work-related ill health?
A survey by YouGov on behalf of Croner has revealed that only 7% of the British public are aware that 12,000 or more workers die each year from health problems contracted at work. It revealed that 36% thought that fewer than 500 deaths were caused by work-related illness each year, while 50% believed the total…
Farmer fined following teenager’s quad bike death
A farmer on Dartmoor failed to properly maintain a quad bike which was later involved in a fatal collision. Plymouth Crown Court heard that 17-year-old Phillip Nyhan was riding the quad given him to use at Runnage Farm, on Dartmoor when he was in collision with a car on a minor road near Postbridge on…
Reminder for employers after five workers killed in West Yorkshire
Employers are being urged to focus on real risk after five workers lost their lives and more than 900 suffered a major injury while at work in West Yorkshire last year. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has asked business to rethink workplace safety provisions in the New Year after the number of deaths in…
Lawyer crushed by half-tonne window frame
A half-tonne window frame which crushed a lawyer in central London was propped up against a wall, an inquest heard. Amanda Telfer, 44, died at the scene after a wooden frame of a ground-floor window in Hanover Street, Mayfair, fell on her last Thursday, reports the BBC. Westminster Coroner’s Court heard the 13ft (4m) by…