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 Lathe access failures cost manufacturer £200k after trainee’s arm fractures

Thursday 25th May 2023
A Northumberland-based manufacturer must pay a fine of £200,000 after its failure to enclose a lathe in a fixed perimeter guard and prevent access to the work area led to a trainee’s left arm being pulled into the lathe.
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 Unmanaged conveyor lift led to fatal accident

Wednesday 17th May 2023
HSE inspector Julian Franklin explains how the unplanned lift of a 14.5m conveyor system led to the death of a haulage company worker
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 Paper manufacturer fined £600,000 after forklift crush injuries

Friday 12th May 2023
Paper manufacturing firm AkzoNobel Packaging Coatings Ltd has been fined £600,000 after one of its workers was crushed in an ‘avoidable accident’.
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 £1m fine for concrete firm after youngster sustains fatal head injuries from metal grab

Wednesday 10th May 2023
Creagh Concrete Products (CCP), a manufacturer based in Hoveringham, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, has been fined £1m after a young employee sustained fatal head injuries from a metal grab that was in poor condition and shouldn’t have been in use.
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 Addressing workplace violence

Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Workplace violence and harassment is a global concern. Sarah Cumbers, director of evidence and insight at London-based charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation, explores how OSH professionals can address it
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 The PPE market

Wednesday 3rd May 2023
COVID-19 thrust PPE into the public spotlight and brought multiple challenges for wearable protection. What have been the wider repercussions for the PPE market – and OSH professionals?
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 Welsh ambulance worker who caught Covid from patient died of an industrial disease, concludes coroner

Monday 27th March 2023
A coroner has concluded that an ambulance worker in Wales who caught Covid while attending to an infected patient died from an ‘industrial disease’.
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 Not so common sense: predicting risk properly

Tuesday 21st March 2023
Common sense means different things in different countries and cultures. Far better to consider public, industry and expert types of knowledge, writes Angela Gray CMIOSH, technical lead at IOSH.
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 Risk & Compliance software provider collaborates with HSE and Costain to improve risk management on worksites

Friday 17th March 2023
A Belfast-based Risk & Compliance software provider has been collaborating with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and construction giant Costain as part of an ongoing project to unlock artificial intelligence’s (AI) potential in improving the management of risks on worksites.
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 Life-changing one tonne load fall results in £95,000 fine

Monday 13th March 2023
We spoke to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Andrew Johnson about a case where a one-tonne pallet of glass fell on a United Pallet Network (UK) Limited’s employee, causing life-changing injuries.
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