Electricity

How can businesses enable agile working when procuring electrical and ergonomic home office equipment? Stephen Roberts, a specialist in workstation power, connectivity and ergonomics, discusses the duty of care to remote-working employees.

The company that runs Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal in the Midlands must pay £6.5m after a court found it guilty of negligence over the death of an 11-year-old boy at the depot, near Rugby.

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.

Hydrogen looks promising as a plentiful alternative to fossil fuels, but the risks of electrical shock and flammability must be managed first, writes Michael Edwards GradIOSH in his latest opinion piece.

A ‘serious and systemic failure to properly address health and safety’ led to the death of John Bell, who was killed while carrying out maintenance work.

A landlord has been handed a nine-year prison sentence for gross negligence manslaughter after a child was electrocuted in the beer garden.

Supermarket giant Tesco has been fined £500,000 over a child's electric shock in Warfield store.

Sellafield has been fined £320,000 after an electrician’s eyelashes were burned off while working on high voltage equipment.

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has been fined £660,000 after a flashover of electricity from a 415V source narrowly avoided a demolition contractor.

Treanor Pujol has been sentenced for safety breaches following two separate incidents that led to the death of an employee and serious injuries to a second worker.