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 2023: a year of unprecedented change for building safety

Thursday 25th May 2023
We look at some of the highlights of the BSR 2023 conference and explain how the issues under discussion will irrevocably change the safety of the UK’s built environment.
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 Unmanaged conveyor lift led to fatal accident

Wednesday 17th May 2023
HSE inspector Julian Franklin explains how the unplanned lift of a 14.5m conveyor system led to the death of a haulage company worker
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 Paper manufacturer fined £600,000 after forklift crush injuries

Friday 12th May 2023
Paper manufacturing firm AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings Ltd has been fined £600,000 after one of its workers was crushed in an ‘avoidable accident’.
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 Pushing back on MSDs

Wednesday 3rd May 2023
The back health of ground-handling staff at Hamburg Airport in Germany has dramatically improved following an injury prevention project. We find out how they did it.
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 Life-changing one tonne load fall results in £95,000 fine

Monday 13th March 2023
We spoke to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Andrew Johnson about a case where a one-tonne pallet of glass fell on a United Pallet Network (UK) Limited’s employee, causing life-changing injuries.
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 Understanding safety behaviours

Thursday 2nd March 2023
We explore how world-leading renewable energy group RES staged a global company-wide stand-down day to understand and improve safety behaviours.
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 British Airways subsidiary fined £230K after engineer suffers life-changing fall

Thursday 16th February 2023
We speak to HSE inspector Dr Sara Lumley about a case where an aircraft engineer fell from a maintenance dock, causing life-changing injuries.
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 Exclusive: OSH service providers face a new era of proactive HSE prosecutions

Thursday 2nd February 2023
We look at a proactive HSE prosecution case that combined the instincts of a tenacious HSE inspector with the technical knowledge of one of her colleagues to hold a LEV examination and testing company to account.
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 Terminal cancer cases in Grenfell firefighters

Friday 20th January 2023
National media reports have revealed that up to a dozen Grenfell firefighters have been diagnosed with terminal cancer
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 The search for safety hacks

Wednesday 4th January 2023
A ‘hackathon’ to develop better safety management software using AI has helped the Port of Tyne move towards its ambition of achieving zero harm.
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