Teacher’s union, the NASUWT, has raised concerns over the Coalition Government’s attacks on health and safety protections, claiming that these attacks threaten to put the lives of children and adults in schools and colleges at risk.
At its recent Ann...
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The former owners of a Buckinghamshire care home have been sentenced for serious safety failings after a frail 76-year-old woman died following a fall from a hoist.
Aylesbury Crown Court was told that Mrs Barbara Kilty, who had been resident at...
The Government has unveiled new proposals on improving the safety and reducing risks to young drivers at a summit for the motor insurance industry, hosted by the Department for Transport.
A green paper looking at a range of options for improving the...
A Berkshire haulier has been fined for safety failings after a long-serving employee was run over and killed by a tipper lorry at his Reading head office.
Brian Gutteridge was crossing a road from the main office to a car park when the vehicle struck...
The frequency of asbestos cases being reported to the Health and Safety Executive demonstrates that adequate measures are still not being taken to protect workers from the risks associated with exposure to asbestos.
Asbestos kills thousands each year...
Car drivers are being urged to see the person behind the helmet and take longer to look for motorcyclists in the latest THINK! motorcycle safety campaign.
The £1.3 million campaign, timed to coincide with the anticipated Spring increase in motorcycl...
Thurrock Council has been fined after admitting to failures in how it managed asbestos across its schools.
Basildon Crown Court heard that despite being made aware of asbestos concerns in a boiler room at a Junior School, no action was taken.
A speci...
The Law Society has restated its request for government to publish the study it commissioned from an academic, regarding costs in personal injury cases.
The Ministry of Justice has rejected the Society's request, considered under Freedom of Informat...
New research released from motor insurance expert Confused.com has revealed that the vast majority of Brits don’t understand the road signs they come across on a daily basis.
Further to this, over three-quarters (76%) think that distraction caused by...
Transport for London (TfL) has published the findings of the first independent review into construction logistics and cyclist safety.
This was commissioned by TfL following the worrying number of collisions involving construction vehicles and cyclis...
The safety of workers across the country is still being put at risk by employers who fail to carry out the necessary risk assessments, or implement the most basic of safety measures, to ensure their well-being.
Falls from height
One area where w...
The government has cut spending on road safety campaigns from £19 million in 2008/09 to just £4 million in 2011/12 – a cut of nearly 80%.
The figure was revealed after a freedom of information enquiry by road safety charity the Institute of Advanced...
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament has adopted a report on dealing with the problem of asbestos, reports the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
The report is largely in line with the stated aims of the E...
A food manufacturer has appeared in court for safety offences after one of its workers lost the tip of her finger using a badly-guarded machine in a Doncaster factory.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the incident and prosecuted the...
There were 541 reports of needle stick injuries that exposed healthcare workers to patients carrying bloodborne viruses in 2011, twice as many as a decade ago (2002) when 271 exposures were reported.
The figures come from the Health Protection Agency...
Brake, the road safety charity, and Churchill Car Insurance are urging drivers to commit to safe driving this winter, as research shows many are dangerously complacent about precautions for snow, ice and rain.
The call comes as a survey of 1,000 driv...
Two North East firms have been fined after a worker suffered serious head injuries when the fork of a forklift truck struck him on the forehead.
Jim McGowan was employed by an engineering services firm, which had secured a contract to remove redundan...
New rules to improve the safety of workers most exposed to electromagnetic fields with protective measures and new maximum exposure limits have been approved by a large majority in the European Parliament’s social affairs and employment committee.
T...
The Law Society has warned that rushed implementation of Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentence and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) risks adding to costs and clogging up the civil courts.
In a letter to Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary and Lord ...
A global ingredients company has been fined for safety failings after two workers were seriously injured in separate incidents a year apart at its UK manufacturing base near Hitchin.
In the first incident, in July 2009, a maintenance engineer fell mo...
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