Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, director of the King’s Centre for Risk Management at King’s College, London, will lead the review which will consider the opportunities for reducing the burden of health and safety legislation on UK businesses while maintaining the progress made in improving health and safety outcomes. The intention is to explore the scope for…
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We would like to invite you and a colleague or supplier to a new round of our very popular Breakfast and Lunch Clubs just about to start with venues including Gloucester Rugby Club. If you haven’t been able to meet up with us and share a coffee and bacon sandwich up to now please put…
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We’ve just been selected by a large car manufacturer to carry out training on isocyanates safety for their staff. They searched the entire market for this specialist training and chose us. If you have a specialist training need please contact us, we offer thousands of courses and often create bespoke training for clients – up…
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We’re pleased to let you know that the first of our consultants has attained approval under the new OSHCR Scheme put in place by HSE, IOSH, RoSPA etc following the recommendations of Lord Youngs Report. The approval came through on 15th February 2011 for Roger Hart.
At a recent talk HSE promised to devote more time and resources to the inspection of smaller construction sites in the current year. Large construction sites have continued to improve to the point where resources are felt to be better spent at smaller sites with an emphasis on the following areas; Asbestos-ensuring companies are complying…
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The HSE has prosecuted two companies after three workers fell through skylights on three separate occasions at an industrial unit in Warrington. Bizspace Investment Ltd’s facility was the site of the events where a caretaker at the site was cleaning guttering on the roof when he fell through a fragile skylight, and suffered multiple broken…
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The case against of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings recently came to a conclusion and has caused much comment in the press and within the health and safety industry but most people are still asking what can be learned and how important the outcome was for Directors and business owners. It is know that the company had…
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The first company to stand trial under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, has been fined £385,000 after being found guilty by the jury at Winchester Crown Court. Paul Verrico, a solicitor-advocate with Eversheds, said the case is unlikely to be a landmark in terms of a test of…
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Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has today become the first company to be convicted of the new offence of corporate manslaughter. The case concerns the death of Alex Wright, just 27-years-old when he died on 5 September 2008. He was a geologist for Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings and was investigating soil conditions in a deep trench on a…
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Oxford Architects Partnership of Oxford was fined £120,000 and ordered to pay £60,000 costs after admitting breaching CDM regulations admitting it had flouted regulations 13 and 14, which require designers to take safety considerations into account. The practice had been working on the Exchange conference centre in Bridgwater, Somerset, when Dan Cairns, an employee of…
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