Risk management

The director of a Turkish restaurant in London has been convicted of safety failings after an eight-year-old child sustained life-changing injuries when his hand got trapped in a mincing machine.

A goat farm has been ordered to pay £180,000 after a worker stepped out of a corridor into the path of a reversing telehandler and was killed.

The death of an engineer who was fatally crushed when a 20-tonne piston fell on him would not have happened had an adequate risk assessment been carried out beforehand, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector who investigated the case has told IOSH magazine.

Winter storms and slashed budgets combined with a lack of skills and awareness are leading to needless deaths in forestry and arboriculture.

A report into the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin has slammed the production company for showing ‘plain indifference’ to employee safety.

A family-run transport and haulage company founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1930s has been fined £200,000 after a longstanding employee died from injuries sustained in a fatal fall.

A care home worker who joked about reporting his employer to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for not enforcing the wearing of facemasks at the height of the pandemic has won his claim for constructive unfair dismissal.

Sainsbury’s has been fined £1 million after measures taken during the Covid pandemic to help organise orderly queueing at the company’s Newbury store left a customer facing life-changing injuries.

The United Kingdom has demonstrated its commitment to strengthen efforts to end violence and harassment in the workplace by ratifying the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Violence and Harassment Convention.

Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee “in an incident waiting to happen”.