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Portable Appliance Testing

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The below is taken from the the HSE guidance and may help you with how to keep your portable appliances safe at work in terms of checks and inspections. Essentially it is down to you to use this guidance and assess the frequency of checks and inspections required. PA testing is not specifically a legal requirement but certainly makes sense to protect people and premises from faulty equipment and fire that is part of existing legislation.…

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Workers are feeling the heat – so, what are we doing to help?

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While the media rages with reports of the devastation caused by wildfires, storms, droughts and crop failures, IOSH’s Dr Karen Michell considers the impact of extreme weather events and excessive heat on workers – and what employers and OSH professionals can do to help protect them. Dramatic headlines and film footage of the climate crisis shout at us on almost a daily basis.…

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School trust fined after children injured by classroom ceiling collapse

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An educational trust has been fined after 15 school children and their teacher were injured when their classroom ceiling collapsed during a lesson. Fifteen Year 3 pupils, aged between seven and eight, and their teacher had the ceiling collapse onto them at Rosemead Preparatory School in London, at around 9.30am on 15 November 2021.…

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Printing company fined after worker’s hand crushed

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A commercial printing company has been fined £100,000 after an employee’s hand was crushed by a laminating machine. The man had been working for Celloglas Limited at the firm’s site at Cross Green Industrial Estate in Leeds. He was attempting to fix a laminating machine on 25 November 2020 when his right hand was drawn into the device and crushed between two rollers.…

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Manchester company director fined after obstructing HSE investigation

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A Manchester-based construction company and its director have been fined after a catalogue of health and safety failings following an inspection. On 13 January 2022, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors visited a timber-frame housing development under construction off Brookwood Drive in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent by a company called Amro Construction Ltd.…

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Construction firm fined £90,000 after exposing public to asbestos during renovation work

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A Warrington-based construction company has been fined £90,000 after exposing people to asbestos during a renovation project in the Hanley area of Stoke-on-Trent. Despite failing to attend Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court on 24 August 2023, Esskay Construction Ltd was found guilty in its absence. Nathan Cook, prosecuting on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) told the court how the regulator received a concern on 31 August 2021 about asbestos disturbance.…

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Sole trader jailed after man crushed under van at Bootle garage

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4th August 2023 The partner of a man who got stuck and crushed under a vehicle at a motor repair company and later died has spoken of her struggles coping with her loss. Kenneth (Kenny) McCord, 56, died following an incident on 16 July 2020 at JJ Tyres & Recovery based in Bootle, Merseyside.…

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HSE Prosecutions July 2023

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Latest press releases HSE Media Centre Visit the media centre for full details of these prosecutions. Boarding school fined £50,000 after pupils overexposed to radon radioactive gas 20th July 2023 Plumber given suspended prison sentence for carrying out unsafe gas work 19th July 2023 Company fined after employees diagnosed with life-changing condition 18th July 2023 Building Safety Regulator announces first step towards regulating the building control profession 17th July 2023…

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Construction tops fatal workplace injuries but…

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More workers died in construction than any other sector according to the Health and Safety Executive’s provisional figures for workplaces in Great Britain in 2022/23 and released on 6 July.  However, although the number of workers killed in construction was more than double that in agriculture, forestry and fishing, the sector’s fatal injury rate for the past five years is considerably less.…

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Mum of boy electrocuted in a beer garden calls on pubs and clubs to make sure they’re safe this summer

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Danielle Jones and Harvey Tyrrell The mother of a seven-year-old boy who died after being electrocuted in a pub beer garden is urging the hospitality sector to make sure their outdoor electrical equipment is safe. Danielle Jones’ son, Harvey Tyrrell, was electrocuted after he touched unsafe lighting in the garden of a pub in Harold Wood, Essex in September 2018.…

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