HSE News
Wales: New partner joins HSE campaign to tackle stress in workplaces across Wales
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) campaign aimed at preventing or combatting stress in the workplace has welcomed a new partner ahead of stress awareness month in April. Healthy Working Wales has become the 36th organisation to join Working Minds as part of its mission to improve the health of employees across Wales. In 2023/24, […]
24th March 2025 CorporatePress release
Fines for company and operations manager after death from 20-foot fall
Man fell through fragile roof in Dudley. Company, now in liquidation, does not escape criminal sanction Detailed guidance on both working on fragile surfaces and working at height is available from HSE. A company and its operations manager have both been fined after a man fell to his death through a roof at its site […]
21st March 2025 Press releaseProsecution
Property developer fined for multiple construction site failures
A London property developer has been fined £63,000 plus costs after Britain’s workplace regulator found multiple failures at a construction site in Dalston. Nofax Enterprises Limited was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13 month period between 2020 and 2021. The company […]
18th March 2025 Press releaseProsecution
Manufacturing firms reminded of their asbestos duties
Britain’s workplace regulator is reminding manufacturing firms of their asbestos duties. As we approach Global Asbestos Awareness Week (April 1 – 7), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding those running businesses occupying buildings built before 2000 to properly assess, manage and monitor asbestos risks in line with the law. Older manufacturing facilities may […]
17th March 2025 CorporatePress release
Hydraulics company fined after worker’s legs trapped in machine
A hydraulics company, with locations throughout the UK, has been fined after an employee became trapped in a machine that he was working on at a customer’s premises in Plymouth. David Lawrence, a 63-year-old engineer, was undertaking fault finding on a laser cutting machine for Pearson Hydraulics Ltd, on 26 July 2023, when the cutting […]
13th March 2025 Press releaseProsecution
The UK Chemicals Helpline is changing
The UK Chemicals Contact Centre was established to support businesses and stakeholders with general enquiries relating to the EU Exit Transition Period. On 31 March 2025 the telephone services for the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), Prior Informed Consent Regulation (PIC) and Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (CLP) will be closing. HSE can still be contacted […]
Company fined for unsafe scaffolding
Workers scrambled up the rungs of an unsafe scaffold to work at a block of flats in Merseyside. The company in question, A.I.M Access Solutions Ltd has been fined £30,000 for its failure to assemble safe scaffolding following an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In May 2021, the workplace regulator identified serious […]
7th March 2025 NewsPress releaseProsecution
Bradford builder sentenced after fatal fall of asylum seeker
A self-employed builder has been handed a suspended prison sentence following the death of an asylum seeker who fell from scaffolding at a domestic property in Bradford. Sarabjit Singh, 44, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work. Mr Eraj Rahanpour, a 29-year-old originally […]
5th March 2025 Press release
Animal feed manufacturer fined after employee’s arm severed
An East Yorkshire company has been fined more than half a million pounds after an employee’s lower arm was severed when it became entangled in a conveyor. Bartosz Gaj, a blender operative, had been attempting to clear a blockage at AB Agri Limited’s premises in Fridaythorpe, Driffield on 3 November 2021. Mr Gaj’s hand was […]
5th March 2025 Press releaseProsecution
Brothers fined for failing to protect public from cattle
Two brothers have been sentenced for failing to protect members of the public from their cattle. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Andrew and David Turnbull failed to offer and display signs of an alternative route to a public right of way in their field in the Coalsgarth Valley, North Yorkshire. […]
3rd March 2025 NewsPress releaseProsecution
Construction firm fined as HSE inspection identifies catalogue of failures
A renovation company in South Wales has been sentenced after defying enforcement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Inspectors say Greenlife Property Developments Ltd failed to heed their warnings about the dangers posed to workers by a two-and-a-half metre deep excavation of the entire back garden of a house in Pit Place, Cwmbach, […]
3rd March 2025 NewsPress releaseProsecution
