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Control of contractors
Deliveroo riders lose bid for worker status
Balfour Beatty fined £333k for contractor’s station crush
Safe systems of work
Balfour Beatty fined £333k for contractor’s station crush
Balfour Beatty and London Underground fined £433k for track worker’s crush injuries
Safe systems of work
Balfour Beatty and London Underground fined £433k for track worker’s crush injuries

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Workplace transport
Port trio docked more than £1.4m for security guard’s fatal HGV crush

A port operator, a security firm and a shipping company must pay fines totally more than £1.4m after an employee was struck and dragged underneath a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) at the Port of Immingham.
Work equipment
OSH controls could be eroded by digital future, EU-OSHA report warns

Companies could lose important safety and health expertise as the number of middle managers is reduced, according to a new report tracking trends in the digitalisation of work.
Workplace transport
Courier delivered £120k fine for segregation failure

A courier company has been fined £120,000 after an agency worker was hit and run over by a forklift truck.
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Features

Driver safety special: A mounting concern
Road safety
Driver safety
Driver safety special: A mounting concern
Driver safety special: Marginal notes
Workplace transport
Workplace transport
Driver safety special: Marginal notes
Driver safety special: Driven to change, telematics
Road safety
Telematics
Driver safety special: Driven to change

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Mental health
Case study
Network Rail: Fast track to recovery

Britain’s railway network operator is sending its traumatic incident management standard down the line.  
Ergonomics
Manual handling
The train drain

We look at the scientific evidence underpinning the HSE’s advice that training alone is unlikely to reduce manual handling risk.
Leadership
Leader interview
Paul Wright, Biffa

The waste management contractor’s new OSH director plans to adapt COMAH industry techniques to continue a downward trend in accidents. 
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the new gross negligence manslaughter tariffs

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why better managers break all the rules

 

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