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  Morrisons’ £3.5m fine is ‘a warning to all employers’, says council

Friday 24th March 2023
Morrisons supermarket has been fined £3.5 million for failing to ensure the health and safety of an epileptic employee who died after falling from a shop stairway.
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 Judge dismisses John Lewis car park injury appeal

Wednesday 4th January 2023
A man who tripped in a parking bay argued that the retailer owed him a duty of care.
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 Escalator safety: raising the game

Monday 22nd November 2021
An award-winning engineer and a former head of safety at John Lewis discuss the dangers of making assumptions about the causes of escalator accidents, and how best to encourage safe behaviour among members of the public.
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 Beauty business fined £50,000 after customer fell down open trapdoor

Thursday 3rd June 2021
A cosmetics store in Luton has been prosecuted after a customer fell down an open trapdoor and sustained multiple bruises and lacerations all over her body.
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 School fined £63,000 after fatal fall over low wall

Tuesday 6th April 2021
An independent secondary school has been ordered to pay almost £63,000 in fines and costs after a member of the public tripped over a poorly lit wall and sustained fatal head injuries.
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 Hotel management repeatedly ignored Improvement Notices

Tuesday 17th March 2020
Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches
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 Tesco lands huge fine over slippery floor

Tuesday 28th January 2020
Supermarket giant Tesco has been handed a £700,000 fine after a 91-year-old pensioner slipped at its Hemel Hempstead store and broke his hip.
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 Council fined £500,000 over death of care home resident

Thursday 12th December 2019
A council has been fined £500,000 after a woman with dementia died following a fall at one of its care homes.
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 Scots care home owner fined after pensioner's fatal fall

Friday 8th November 2019
Nazareth Care Charitable Trust has been fined £40,000 over the death of an 87-year-old resident, who fell down a flight of stairs at a care home in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian.
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 Slips, trips and falls account for almost 30 per cent of Singapore workplace injuries

Thursday 29th August 2019
Nearly 30 per cent of workplace injuries in Singapore are now the result of slips, trips and falls, according to the Straits Times. The first six months of 2019 saw more than 1,800 injuries, a 6 per cent increase on last year, with totals of more than 3,000 per year over the past four years.
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