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First aid

Guidance on first aid cover during outbreak

Tuesday 26th May 2020
First aid
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
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UK government introduces new Fire Safety Bill

UK government introduces new Fire Safety Bill

Wednesday 25th March 2020
Fire
New legislation will amend the Fire Safety Order 2005 and ‘prevent another Grenfell’
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Stoke Rochford Hall

Hotel management repeatedly ignored Improvement Notices

Tuesday 17th March 2020
Electricity
Slips and trips
Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches
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Exploding fuel tank killed demolition worker

Friday 14th February 2020
Chemicals
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.
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Tyre

Tyre company nailed for fire safety failings

Wednesday 12th February 2020
Fire
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.
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Police

HSE prosecutes police force over electric shock

Wednesday 12th February 2020
Electricity
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.
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Powerline

Stone merchant rapped over second power line incident

Tuesday 4th February 2020
Electricity
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.
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Tesco

Tesco lands huge fine over slippery floor

Tuesday 28th January 2020
Slips and trips
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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ORR

DB Cargo hit with another multi-million pound fine after boy, 13, electrocuted

Monday 13th January 2020
Electricity
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.
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Image credit | HSE

Incompetent site management lands director with suspended jail sentence

Thursday 2nd January 2020
Electricity
A company and its director have been sentenced for failing to comply with an enforcement notice.
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