Safety

A wood working company and its director have both been sentenced after failing to assess and control the risks associated with asbestos materials on the firm’s premises.

WorkSafe NZ has published a report with 13 recommendations to improve vehicle-related health and safety and actively manage supply chain pressures to minimise vehicle-related risks.

The cinema chain has been prosecuted for ‘a complete lack of risk assessment’ after a man was crushed to death by a faulty reclining chair.

An international research project is developing human-centred safety performance indicators that could be used to improve safety across different industries. 

Covid disruption, wide scale furloughing of workers and a 10% reduction in weekly hours worked has been accompanied by a 28% year-on-year increase in the number of work-related fatal accidents, according to Great Britain’s annual fatality statistics.

Andy Meade, an engineer for more than 30 years, believed the power was cut to the machine he was servicing when he suffered a fatal electric shock.

Two OSH regulatory lawyers explain the key provisions of the new Building Safety Bill in England.

A transport boss has been jailed for 15 years and a driver sentenced to six years after two men died when their car was hit by an HGV with faulty brakes.

The European Commission has said it will review and update EU rules on workplace safety in light of the Covid-19 pandemic to better reflect the fact that millions of people are now working from home.

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is calling on employers to introduce company-wide fatigue risk management strategies to combat the problem after its report found around a quarter to almost a third of drivers surveyed had admitted to having fallen asleep while driving at least once in the past year.