Slips and trips

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

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.

A council has been fined £500,000 after a woman with dementia died following a fall at one of its care homes.

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.

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.

A training technique typically used in art education offers a fresh perspective on identifying hazards.

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) newly published statistics on workplace fatalities revealed that 147 people were killed at work in the 12 months to the end of March (a rate of 0.45 deaths per 100,000 workers). A quarter of fatal injuries were sustained by workers aged 60 or over. 

I first went caving in 1972 while at school and enjoyed it from the start. It’s partly that you know you’re going somewhere not many people have been before, but it’s also the camaraderie.

Safety footwear

Every year, an average of 4,400 people aged between 25-64 in England die as the result of accidents, including those at work, and there are 240,000 annual accident-related hospital admissions, RoSPA notes in a new national strategy published on 11 October. Although most incidents occur outside work, the knock-on financial effect on businesses is huge.