Sectors

The owners and operators of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Hemel Hempstead have been ordered to pay almost £160,000 after the wooden staircase that a wedding party was standing on for a group photograph collapsed beneath them.

Food manufacturing company AH Worth was recently fined £300,000 for exposing workers to sulphur dioxide gas, causing life-changing injuries.

The Singapore government has revised safe management measures for employers to control a rise in COVID-19 infections in workplaces.

A workforce that is overstretched and inexperienced will require training and support if health and safety standards are to be maintained, argues transport safety manager Dean Roscoe CMIOSH.

The travel and tourism industry has been hit harder than most by the pandemic, writes Steve Smethurst. How is IOSH supporting the sector as it plans for an uncertain future?

The parent company of a contractor that was building a wind farm in Scotland and a security firm that employed staff to guard the remote site have admitted safety breaches after a security guard was trapped in snow for four and half hours and later died from hypothermia.

A construction company has been fined £34,000 following an incident that resulted in one of its workers having their leg amputated below the knee.

An engineering company has been fined £62,334 after one of its employees suffered scalping injuries when her hair became entangled in a pillar drill, despite the company’s own risk assessment identifying that a guard should be fitted.

The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video to improve practices in the oil and gas sector following the Aghorn Operating waterflood station incident in 2019, which claimed the lives of an employee and his spouse.

A SCUBA equipment supply company has been fined £9,300 and ordered to pay £11,000 costs after providing a diving school with contaminated air that led to children being taken so ill during a training session that one ended up in an induced coma.