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 £500,000 fine for firework factory blast

Friday 31st March 2023
Fire
A 24-year-old worker was killed when one of the products he was using ignited and caused an explosion.
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 Just six months to register for Building Safety Regulator, HSE warns

Monday 27th March 2023
Fire
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding those responsible for the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England have six months from April to register with the new Building Safety Regulator by law.
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  Morrisons’ £3.5m fine is ‘a warning to all employers’, says council

Friday 24th March 2023
Slips and trips
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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 Chemicals management Q&A

Friday 24th March 2023
Chemicals
A recent IOSH magazine webinar reflected on COSHH ill-health statistics in the manufacturing industry. With almost 3,000 viewers, lots of questions were asked. Here we answer some of those we didn't get to.
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 Terminal cancer cases in Grenfell firefighters

Friday 20th January 2023
Fire
National media reports have revealed that up to a dozen Grenfell firefighters have been diagnosed with terminal cancer
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 The search for safety hacks

Wednesday 4th January 2023
A ‘hackathon’ to develop better safety management software using AI has helped the Port of Tyne move towards its ambition of achieving zero harm.
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 Judge dismisses John Lewis car park injury appeal

Wednesday 4th January 2023
Slips and trips
A man who tripped in a parking bay argued that the retailer owed him a duty of care.
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 Farmyard electrocution led to three separate sentences

Wednesday 21st December 2022
Electricity
On 30 September 2019, an employee of Connop and Son Ltd was pouring concrete at Worton Grounds Farm near Banbury when the arm of a mobile concrete pump he was using came into contact with an overhead powerline.
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 Director was unfairly dismissed as H&S officer did not raise concerns over cryo-chamber installation

Wednesday 9th November 2022
Chemicals
A director who had installed a cryotherapy chamber was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled, because the technical director and principal health and safety officer at the business failed to raise concerns about the work undertaken.
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 HSE report highlights risks posed by hazardous atmospheres in freight containers at ports and distribution centres

Friday 4th November 2022
Chemicals
Research published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has identified some weaknesses in the control measures at a number of ports and distribution centres in relation to workers coming into contact with hazardous substances when examining or unloading freight containers.
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