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 Waste firm guilty of corporate manslaughter after worker was struck and killed by a reversing wheeled loader vehicle

Tuesday 28th February 2023
A waste firm and its director have been found guilty over the death of a worker who was run over by a reversing lorry.
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 Principal contractor handed £146k fine for fatal excavator crush goes into liquidation

Tuesday 14th February 2023
Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction project in Derbyshire that was building a concrete overflow weir structure on the site. The Midlands firm had brought in steel fixers and joiners to undertake the work.
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 2.3m fatal fall results in £480,000 fine

Thursday 6th October 2022
We speak with HSE inspector Pippa Trimble about how a lorry driver’s fatal fall resulted in an almost half-million-pound fine
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 Stagecoach prosecution: the importance of site-specific risk assessment

Thursday 22nd September 2022
We speak to HSE Inspector James Collins about how a site-specific risk assessment at Stagecoach Devon’s Torquay bus depot could have prevented a life-changing injury.
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 Back to basics: workplace transport

Thursday 1st September 2022
Workplace transport incidents are the focus in our series exploring core OSH topics and your role in ensuring risks are well managed. 
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 Singapore eyes directors’ duties’ ACoP to tackle safety culture after spike in fatalities

Monday 8th August 2022
A senior government minister in Singapore has issued a warning to company directors that they face prosecution for health and safety failures, as the government considers a new Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) on directors’ duties
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 Skanska bans swing-up lorry loaders after site death

Friday 8th July 2022
Lorry loaders fitted with hydraulic tilting and deployment stabiliser legs are to be banned from all Skanska UK sites.
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  Goat farm failed to segregate pedestrians and vehicles

Tuesday 17th May 2022
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.
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 £2 million corporate killing fine imposed on metal recycler for ‘incident waiting to happen’

Monday 4th April 2022
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”.
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 Child’s death leads to calls for a farming culture change

Thursday 17th March 2022
The tragic death of four-year-old Harry Lee on his family farm in Newchurch-in-Pendle has led to IOSH, the Health and Safety Executive, and Harry’s own family to call for a renewed focus on children’s safety in agricultural settings.
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