Risk management

Unsupervised trainee was on his second day in the job

Fresh guidance from the HSE on protecting remote workers during the pandemic

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

Investigators found no emergency stop on poultry processing machine

The operator of Walkabout pubs has been prosecuted after a stack of chairs crushed a worker in a service lift.

An incident in which a banksman was run over and crushed by a shovel loader has landed waste management giant Viridor in court once again.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Surrey firm after a child sustained multiple fractures to her pelvis and internal injuries when a 5m-long gate fell on her.

De La Rue, the company that prints the UK's banknotes, has appeared in court after an employee had to have his face reconstructed when his head got trapped in a gap in a paper press machine.

An HSE inspector was the victim of violence and aggression while conducting an inspection at a waste and recycling site, it has been revealed.

The materials division of French glazing giant Saint-Gobain has been prosecuted after a worker’s left arm had to be amputated after he was seriously injured when a rock handling belt failed at the company’s Barrow plant.