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Our detailed coverage of recent prosecutions are what members have been reading in the past month.

Eddie Stobart has been fined £133,000 for a number of failures that resulted in staff at its rail and container freight port in Widnes, Cheshire being exposed to asbestos.

A preliminary hearing at an employment tribunal in Scotland has ruled that a charity caretaker’s long Covid symptoms amount to a disability under section 6 of the Equality Act 2010.

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Chipboard manufacturer Norbord Europe Limited has been fined £2.15m after a four-week trial held at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland found that a series of failings at its Cowie site in Stirlingshire in July 2016 had led to an employee’s death.

Work-related ill-health and non-fatal injuries have risen, according to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) latest annual health and safety at work statistics for Great Britain, published last week

Managing, communicating and tackling disruptions to business are essential during these tumultuous times. What role do OSH professionals play?

One of the most anticipated and busiest shopping events of the calendar year is upon us – but how can retailers keep customers and staff safe? We look at how they can mitigate the risks.

Lee Bennett is a health and safety manager at British Land, which owns more than 50 shopping centres and retail parks across the UK. He tells us how he has bene planning for one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

We spoke to HSE Inspector Rose Leese-Weller about how failures in the earliest stages of planning a catering equipment cleaning facility’s shopfloor ultimately led to a worker fatality.