Utilities

Unions and HSE leaders clashed over the enforcement of COVID guidance at work last week – IOSH magazine was there to report on it.

National Grid has been hit with the penalty for passing on incomplete records when it sold its gas distribution networks five years ago.

A total of 111 individuals lost their lives at work in the 12 months ending 31 March 2020, the lowest ever recorded number of workplace fatal accidents.

Thames Water Utilities has been fined £300,000 following an incident in which three workers were carried along a sewer after a 150-year-old gate collapsed.