Incident management

The Building Safety Bill received Royal Assent last Thursday (28 April) although many of its provisions will only come into force in a year to 18 months’ time to provide industry with sufficient time to prepare.

As we approach the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, we look at progress in tackling widespread safety failings, and at the wider lessons for OSH professionals.

A fire at a paper mill in North Carolina, which erupted in a confined space when a heat gun fell into a bucket of flammable resin, killed two contract workers.

A chemical company has been fined £480,000 after one of its workers sustained superficial burns at its Hull factory. Flammable vapours ignited at Robert McBride’s site, a Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) lower tier establishment, and engulfed the worker’s upper torso.

All construction site staff and those with site responsibility should receive specific fire safety training to help limit or mitigate the damage caused by fires on future construction or restoration projects, argues the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).

In the latest of our back-to-basics series exploring core OSH topics, we focus on understanding the IOSH Fire Risk Management Group’s five current principles of fire safety.

A gas company has been fined £5million over an explosion which killed a woman at her home in West Yorkshire.

Everyone involved in the design of high-rise buildings should take a proactive approach to managing building safety by planning ahead and preparing for the biggest overhaul of the regulatory framework in 40 years.

In the latest article of our series exploring core OSH topics and your role in ensuring their risks are well managed, we focus on understanding chemical hazards. 

The operator of the UK’s largest oil refinery has been fined for health and safety breaches after a leak of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) was discovered by a worker cycling home at the end of their shift.