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Unsurprisingly Morrisons' £3.5m fine for failing to protect and epileptic worker was this month's most read article – the prosecutions of giant companies Bupa and Siemens and a warning that health and safety regulations could be at risk also made our top 5 articles in March.

MORRISONS’ £3.5M FINE IS ‘A WARNING TO ALL EMPLOYERS’, SAYS COUNCIL

BUPA FINED £400,000 AFTER EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS CRUSHED BY FALLEN TREE

SIEMENS TO PAY £1.4M FOR TRAIN TECHNICIAN’S FATAL CRUSH

HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS AT RISK UNDER DRAFT LAW

LIFE-CHANGING ONE TONNE LOAD FALL RESULTS IN £95,000 FINE

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 £500,000 fine for firework factory blast

Friday 31st March 2023
A 24-year-old worker was killed when one of the products he was using ignited and caused an explosion.
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 Artificial Intelligence and OSH – have your say

Wednesday 29th March 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing part of our lives – so we need to know how work and worker-wellbeing will be affected and decide how AI-use should best be managed.
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 £175k fine after concrete pump caused brain trauma

Monday 27th March 2023
Singh Will Mix It has been convicted of safety failings after a worker was hit in the head by a concrete pump while being operated by an untrained colleague – the firm has since become insolvent.
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 Just six months to register for Building Safety Regulator, HSE warns

Monday 27th March 2023
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding those responsible for the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England have six months from April to register with the new Building Safety Regulator by law.
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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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  Morrisons’ £3.5m fine is ‘a warning to all employers’, says council

Friday 24th March 2023
Morrisons supermarket has been fined £3.5 million for failing to ensure the health and safety of an epileptic employee who died after falling from a shop stairway.
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