We listened with interest during a recent IOSH webinar on Corporate Manslaughter / Corporate Homicide. It feels that in the talks we run for clients at our breakfast and lunch clubs I’ve been talking about little else since the act was introduced and Cotswold Geotech faced the first prosecution. At the time talk was of…
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It doesn’t seem like three years have passed since the governments last budget review in 2010 but that time is here again and HSE is likely to be facing further budget cuts. I can hear readers thinking ‘why should we be worried about that?’ and its a fair question but the impacts of further reductions…
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FREE Working Well Together Event: Snakes and Ladders (Considering Working at Height) This is one of a series of free partnership events run by the industry for the industry, as part of the UK-wide Working Well Together (WWT) campaign. This event will look at working at height – how to do it safely and the…
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Strict liability, sometimes called absolute liability, is the legal responsibility for damages, or injury, even if the person or company found strictly liable was not at fault or negligent. It has been an integral part of health and safety legislation but something which the governments red tape review has hoped to change. Employers complain that…
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A wind turbine in north Devon collapsed in January causing some concern for the renewables industry. It is understood to be the first such reported incident in the UK although blades have fallen from turbines in a small number of cases. A spokeswoman for Dulas the energy company responsible for the erection of the wind…
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Two former directors of a transport company have been order to pay £1,835,793.00 by HH Judge Hughes following a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing at Carlisle Crown Court. On 25 March 2013, 67 year old Patrick James Boyle and 38 year old Mark Anthony Boyle, who are both from Newry, Northern Ireland and former…
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The recent prosecution of Renishaw by the Health and Safety Executive has brought back to light the dangers present for advanced engineering businesses using additive manufacturing from the mixture of fine dust (metal powders commonly aluminium nickel or titanium dust) and associated flammability hazards which they can create. {Click here to see what services we…
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Operators of care homes have strict duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act and are also audited by the CQC (Care Quality Commission). We have services which give access to a competent person for safety and provide unlimited support for safety documents including risk assessments, fire risk assessments, manual handling assessments and similar.…
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Operators of care homes have strict duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act and are also audited by the CQC (Care Quality Commission). We have services which give access to a competent person for safety and provide unlimited support for safety documents including risk assessments, fire risk assessments, manual handling assessments and similar.…
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In each of the first four months of 2013 the Crown Prosecution Service has announced it is to charge a company with corporate manslaughter. Mobile Sweepers (Reading) Ltd is being charged of gross-negligence manslaughter along with its sole director, Mervyn Owens. The charge relates to the death of an employee, Malcolm Hinton on 6 March…
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