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 Suspended sentences handed to recycling directors for shredder death

Monday 13th November 2017
Latvian Karlis Pavasars was working for Mid-UK Recycling at the firm’s Barkston Heath site near Ancaster in Lincolnshire when the incident happened on 19 July 2013.Pavasars, an agency worker, was cleaning near a conveyor that fed the shredder when the recycling line was started up and he was drawn in. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigators found that the fixed gate that prevented access to the conveyor had been removed weeks before the incident, allowing workers free access to the area. Managers were aware that the gate was not in place a few days before the incident.
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 Multinationals plan 5.4% EHS spending rise in 2018

Monday 13th November 2017
Multinational businesses plan an average 5.4% increase in their environment, health and safety (EHS) budgets next year, according to new research by technology consultants Verdantix. A survey of 382 EHS directors in 31 countries found that 35% of respondents expect to increase spending on safety measures, while only 20% plan to raise investment in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.The survey covers EHS directors in businesses with annual revenues of at least $250 million (£191 million), including ConocoPhillips, BP and Rolls-Royce.
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 ISO now plans February launch for ISO 45001

Friday 10th November 2017
The publication, which is earlier than many predicted, will only happen if the ballot due on 25 January is successful, says the ISO communiqué. The working group that is part of ISO/PC 283 – the project committee developing the standard – met in Malacca City in Malaysia from 18-23 September to discuss the 1,600 comments submitted earlier this year to the public consultation on the second draft standard, DIS2.DIS2 was subject to a ballot of 69 national standards bodies in May and June and produced a result of 88% in favour of approving the latest draft.
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 Film prize winner highlights automation risks

Wednesday 8th November 2017
Before the Bridge aims to inform audiences and start a discussion about the impact of new technology on the workplace and how increasing automation threatens the future of human jobs.Presented by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the US production, directed by Lewis Wilcox, was joint winner of the festival’s Healthy Workplaces award with Turtle Shells, a film that explores the connections between animals, humans and war.
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 Teenager hospitalised after passing out from slurry gas

Tuesday 7th November 2017
The 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital and put in an induced coma for 24 hours after being found unconscious at the dairy farm in Omagh, County Tyrone. Dungannon Crown Court was told that Charles Elkin, 66, had put his son in charge of stirring slurry inside a farm building. The teenager, who worked on the farm in the school summer holidays, was helping out with the job. He had been told to stay inside the tractor that was pumping the slurry and to turn off the engine if it started to overheat.
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 Electrical panel builder fined after 750 kg unit fell on engineer

Tuesday 7th November 2017
Newcastle-under-Lyme Magistrates’ Court was told that the Instrument and Control Services employee was moving the control panel on 2 February 2016. The unit, which weighed between 650 and 750 kg and was top heavy, toppled over and pinned the engineer to the ground. He sustained a pelvic fracture that split apart the left and right sides of his lower pelvis.  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company had not risk assessed the task and had not provided a safe system of work or proper instruction and training.
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 UK safety fines rose 80% in first year of new sentencing guidelines

Tuesday 7th November 2017
In 2016-17 – the first full year that the new sentencing guidelines for safety and health offences were in place – fines reached £69.9m compared with £38.8m for the same period a year earlier. This is the second consecutive year in which financial penalties have soared. There was a 115.5% rise between 2014-15 (when £18m worth of fines were collected) and 2015-16.
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 Stress overtakes MSDs in Britain’s workplaces, says HSE

Friday 3rd November 2017
The figures, which are drawn from the quarterly Labour Force Survey and other sources and produced by the Office of National Statistics, show that the number of workers who said they experienced stress, depression or anxiety was up 7% on the previous period, from 488,000 (a rate of 1,510 per 100,000 workers) to 526,000. In 2014-15, 440,000 workers reported a mental health problem caused or made worse by employment.
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 Director disqualified after worker fell into ‘dilapidated’ trommel

Thursday 2nd November 2017
Safi Qais Khan died at Master Construction Products Skips’ (MCPS) site in Birmingham after he became entangled in a poorly maintained trommel, also known as a sorting screen, in which waste is filtered as it descends a perforated drum. The machine was missing essential guards to prevent entrapment, it had no emergency stop button and was located on uneven ground that was strewn with waste, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). MCPS did not have a safe system of work for the trommel.
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 Gate engineer jailed for gross negligence manslaughter

Thursday 2nd November 2017
Automated Garage Doors and Gates employee Robert Churchyard installed the electric metal sliding gate at Jill Lunn’s home in Blofield, Norfolk, in March 2013. It was designed to be operated both automatically and manually.On 17 April Lunn attempted to shut the gate by hand when it failed to close behind her. However, a stop device had not been fitted to prevent it sliding off the track. It fell on her and she sustained fatal injuries.
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