Incident management

If first aid cover for your business is reduced because of coronavirus or you can’t get the first aid training you need, the HSE has new advice on how to comply

New legislation will amend the Fire Safety Order 2005 and ‘prevent another Grenfell’

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

Construction contractors Materials Movement and PJ Labour Services have each been fined £33,000 after a worker was killed in an explosion at a North London demolition site.

The director of a scrap tyre yard has been handed a suspended prison sentence for a series of fire safety offences after an emergency fire door was nailed shut in a building where workers were living.

South Wales Police has been ordered to pay almost £95,000 in fines and costs after an employee sustained burns when he received an electric shock while installing computer data cables.

A stone merchant in North Yorkshire has been prosecuted after a vehicle made contact with an uninsulated overhead electric power line for the second time.

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.

The UK's biggest freight operator has been prosecuted for a second time after a child suffered 40% burns when he was shocked by an overhead cable.

A company and its director have been sentenced for failing to comply with an enforcement notice.