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 Lathe access failures cost manufacturer £200k after trainee’s arm fractures

Thursday 25th May 2023
A Northumberland-based manufacturer must pay a fine of £200,000 after its failure to enclose a lathe in a fixed perimeter guard and prevent access to the work area led to a trainee’s left arm being pulled into the lathe.
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 £1m fine for concrete firm after youngster sustains fatal head injuries from metal grab

Wednesday 10th May 2023
Creagh Concrete Products (CCP), a manufacturer based in Hoveringham, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, has been fined £1m after a young employee sustained fatal head injuries from a metal grab that was in poor condition and shouldn’t have been in use.
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 Young learners’ safety focus critical to reducing avoidable accidents, World Congress hears

Tuesday 12th October 2021
Delegates at a virtual session on ‘Training for Vision Zero’ at the XXII World Congress last month were told how arming children and teenagers with safety knowledge would enable them to enter the workplace as adults better equipped to make safety decisions and help reduce avoidable accidents. 
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 The benefits of teaching safety at a young age

Integrating OSH into education improves young people’s risk intelligence and could generate interest in an OSH career.
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 X is for gens X, Y and Z

Wednesday 4th March 2020
While it is no longer acceptable to assume that all men are stronger than all women, or that people of one colour have different personalities to those of another colour it is, it appears, entirely acceptable to declare that anyone born since 1980 is addicted to social media and will ‘challenge traditional hierarchical HSE systems’, while anyone born before that date is a luddite with no understanding of the modern age, but will be quite happy to toe the line.
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 DB Cargo hit with another multi-million pound fine after boy, 13, electrocuted

Monday 13th January 2020
The UK's biggest freight operator has been prosecuted for a second time after a child suffered 40% burns when he was shocked by an overhead cable.
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 HSENI focus on reducing farm accidents

Thursday 29th August 2019
The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) has committed to ongoing inspections of farms to reduce the number of accidents. Farming was a “high-risk way of life from a health and safety point of view,” HSENI chief executive Robert Kidd told Farming Life magazine.
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 Health and Wellbeing at Work 2019

Monday 18th March 2019
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 DB Cargo fined £2.7m for failing to secure marshalling yard

Friday 15th March 2019
DB Cargo (UK) has been fined £2.7m after a boy of 13 sustained life-changing injuries while playing on the company’s railway marshalling land in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
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 Value judgements

Monday 18th February 2019
A tool to assess the true cost of workplace wellbeing interventions is filling in the data gap that has so far undermined the business case for them.
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