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Ladder fall: £850k fine after window installer breaks knee cap
News Update A window installer fell three metres from an unsecured ladder, breaking his knee cap, an investigation has found. The accident happened when the worker was attempting to install a first-floor rear bedroom window of a property on Cemetery Road, Doncaster....
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Sole trader in court after ignoring HSE notice
Sole trader fined for not carrying out request by Health and Safety Executive enforcement notice.
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Tyre retread co pays £300k for lack of seatbelt rule
News Update A Lincolnshire-based tyre firm has been fined £300,000 after a worker died when the forklift truck he was operating overturned. Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres did not enforce seatbelt use for forklift truck drivers. Lincoln Crown Court was told on 15 September...
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Hey Sugar Sugar
Find out how diabetes can affect your employees role at work.
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Legal Requirements of Occupational Health
Health surveillance allows for early identification of ill health and helps identify any corrective action needed. Health surveillance may also be required by law if your employees are exposed to noise or vibration, solvents, fumes, dusts, biological agents and other substances hazardous to health, or work in compressed air.
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Whats Your Pressure
As an employer its one of the crucial things to have monitored especially if your employees work in high risk areas such as at heights, confined spaces or drive company vehicles or plant equipment. Follow the link to see what Safewells occupational health screening can do to help you as an employer manage your employees welfare.
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Addicted to Gaming?
Those of us who are older enough to remember 1970’s or 80’s the decades when the first real game consoles started to appear that had any real playability like the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, the first ever home console you could link to the TV. Nowadays, people are becoming addicted to gaming and it could affect work…
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MPA South West Region Health & Safety Awareness Day
The Health & Safety Awareness Day is designed to promote best practice and encourage the whole workforce to be the eyes and ears of fellow workers.
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Firm fined £300k after worker severs fingers
An Essex based food manufacturer has been fined after a worker had four fingers amputated while operating a metal working lathe.Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told how Mr Mark Goodge, an employee of Marcantonio Foods Ltd, had been using an emery cloth to clean steel shafts on a metal working lathe.
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Worker’s arm amputated after machinery incident
The director of a plastic recycling company has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison after a worker’s arm was amputated.
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