Safe systems of work

Two employees suffered serious injuries following the release of an acidic cleaning solution

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

About 38.5 cubic metres of diluted slurry knocked three workers off the plinth they were working on.

An engineering firm has been ordered to pay £160,000 after a schoolboy was crushed to death by a heavy wooden pole when it broke loose and rolled down an embankment where the child was playing.

A fish and chip shop has been prosecuted after three staff members were burned by hot oil when they decided to change the fat during business hours.

A manufacturer of high-pressure gas cylinders has been ordered to pay more than £800,000 in fines and costs after a worker was fatally wounded by shrapnel ejected from testing equipment.

AB Sugar won last year’s food & drink health and safety awards, with Allied Bakeries Belfast and 2018’s winner Finlays coming second and third. We take a look at what they did to impress the judges.

Six years after the launch of Forth Ports’ Safety F1rst strategy, the operator is deploying a soft-skills approach to take consultation to a new level

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted plastic packaging manufacturer Sirap UK over the unsafe stacking of flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) after a worker was injured at the firm’s County Durham site.  

Bike retailer Halfords has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 after a set of heavy boxes collapsed on to a staff member, pinning him against a wall and leaving him with a suspected cracked rib.