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The HSE’s ability to bring prosecutions to a successful conclusion saw a noticeable downturn in 2018/19, as the total number of cases that resulted in a verdict – whether conviction or acquittal – dropped 23% from 509 in 2017/18 to just 393. That is one of a range of insights in the regulator’s annual statistical release, published last week (30 October).

A new app aimed at helping to make reporting dangerous work practices and risks to workers’ safety easier has been launched by SafeWork NSW in Australia.

Singapore’s workplace fatal injury rate has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, according to the Ministry of Manpower. 

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) newly published statistics on workplace fatalities revealed that 147 people were killed at work in the 12 months to the end of March (a rate of 0.45 deaths per 100,000 workers). A quarter of fatal injuries were sustained by workers aged 60 or over. 

A jury has found Hampshire County Council guilty of breaching s 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act after a six-year-old girl sustained a serious head injury in an incident involving a defective bollard.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to renew efforts to promote its management standards to tackle work-related stress after signs that the regulator’s Helping Great Britain Work Well campaign has stalled. 

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has awarded plant hire firm Steve Foster Cranes a contract worth €231,000 (£199,826) to transport evidence relating to the partial collapse of Didcot A Power Station to its research site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

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