Back pain is resulting in three million people taking long-term sick leave from work according to Nuffield Health. Lack of provision and advice in the workplace are the key issues employees say they face.
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…
Workplace compensation cases have fallen by more than 50 per cent in the last decade, reveals a new joint report published today (Wednesday) by the TUC and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). It is common to hear stories that the UK is rife with a compensation culture and is becoming risk averse as…
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…
A Hereford company that produces nickel alloys has been fined after an employee suffered life-threatening injuries when he was crushed and burned by falling machinery. 37-year-old foundryman Stephen Bond-Lewis, of Hereford, was removing waste material from a metal casting machine at Special Metals Wiggin Ltd when part of it became detached, fell forward and pinned…
An employee at a vending machine supplier in Skelmersdale was lucky to escape with minor injuries after he fell through a fragile roof, a court has heard. The 40-year-old from Runcorn, who has asked not to be named, had been clearing out the gutters at Paragon International Ltd, on Paddock Road, on 4 September last…
An Essex horticultural nursery has been fined after a worker suffered serious leg injuries when a dumper truck he was driving overturned. Grzegorz Krzyzak, known as Greg, 32, sustained a double open fracture to his shinbone and multiple fractures to bones in his right foot in the incident at Parkers Nurseries, near Thorpe Le Soken,…
A company had been ordered to pay £81,668 after a young worker was severely injured when her hair and scarf became tangled in poorly guarded machinery. Kelly Nield was sorting clothes hangers on a conveyor and as she bent over to remove the amassed hangers, her scarf and hair became caught in the chain and…
A worker unloading scaffold materials from a flatbed lorry was thrown from the vehicle and hit by its load of boards and tubes when it overturned a court was told on the 12th of October. Martin Sapec, 54, of Edwardsville, Treharris suffered a broken pelvis and ankle in the incident at Bryntirion, Mountain Ash, on…
A Preston steel firm has been sentenced after one of its employees suffered serious internal injuries when he became trapped in an industrial drilling machine, reports the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Joseph Spencer narrowly avoided being paralysed when a rotating drill passed through his overalls and jeans, and became lodged close to his spine.…
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…
A Romsey brick-making firm has been prosecuted after one of its employees suffered crush injuries to his leg in a poorly-guarded machine. Mr Nikoloz Demetrashvili was in hospital for three weeks with a multiple fracture of his right leg after the incident at Michelmersh Brick and Tile Company Ltd on 12 October last year. The…
A company which makes modular timber buildings has been fined after an employee suffered multiple injuries falling from a canopy at a Shropshire school. RG Stones (Buildings) Ltd had been contracted to replace the canopy between two temporary buildings at Lakelands School on Oswestry Road in Ellesmere when the incident happened on 8 August 2011.…
A council has been fined £40,000 on a charge of failing to ensure a safe system of work for sub-contracted vehicles carrying out road repairs. It followed an accident on the minor road between Rhonehouse and Tongland in Dumfries and Galloway in April 2010. The collision resulted in road paver driver Robbie Murray being trapped…
Three workers could have been killed if they had fallen while carrying out work to a warehouse roof, a court has heard. The men were seen repairing the leaking roof (pictured) in Birkenhead, up to 16 metres above the ground, without harnesses or any suitable safety measures to stop them falling or to prevent them…