A Merseyside builder has been fined £1,500 after he and another man were spotted working on a pub roof in St Helens without safety equipment.
HSE prosecuted Charles Molloy (Molloy Building Contractors T/A) after an inspector spotted the men on the roof of the Black Horse Hotel on Park Road on 18 June 2009.
No precautions adopted [...]

Shane Homes Limited, of Hull has been today fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £799 costs at Beverley Magistrates’ Court on 10 March 2010 after using unsafe scaffolding. The court heard that during a routine inspection on a house extension HSE observed working on scaffolding that was unsafe and posed a risk of serious injury.
No [...]

Vickers Construction Limited, has been ordered by Darlington Magistrates to pay over £8k in fines and prosecution costs after a groundworker was injured and trapped for more than two hours when a trench collapsed.
The court heard that the incident occurred in November 2008 as an excavator was being used to open a trench for drainage pipes on a sloping bank near Newton [...]

Suspension trauma is the name that is given when a person who is has been working at height wearing a harness, falls and becomes suspended by the harness and after either sustaining a head injury or being suspended for a period of time becomes unconcious due to decreased blood flow to the brain.
Guidance on how first aiders should treat [...]

It is the responsibility of all business owners to ensure that their workplace meets health and safety requirements and any practices and procedures carried out in the workplace do so also. To enforce the health and safety laws in the UK, HSE Inspectors and Health and Safety Awareness Officers visit workplaces and carry out the [...]

Safety in the workplace is essential and fire training is no exception. Every business is legally required to comply with the laws regarding fire safety (The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) and ensure that all staff are trained accordingly.
It makes sound financial sense to have your staff fire safety trained in-house, that way all [...]

On 6 April 2008 the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force in the UK.  This Act creates a new offence that organisations can be convicted of in the event that severe failures in the way in which they manage and organise their activities leads to a fatality. Organisations both within the [...]

Behavioural safety or behaviour modification as it is also known, is an approach to safety in the workplace that a lot of businesses are now turning to. It works on the principle that the majority of accidents in the workplace are caused by behaviours which are not appropriate. In addition to this behavioural safety can [...]

ConstructionSkills is the Sector Skills Council and the Industry Training board for the Construction Industry.  It works with organisations within the Industry to ensure that they have the skilled workforce required for their business who know how to work safely.  The organisation is funded by the Construction Companies who use it as they pay a [...]

The Health and Safety Executive’s Enforcement Management Model or EMM is a framework that is used by inspectors to make decisions relating to enforcement. These are in line with the EPS (Enforcement Policy Statement). In order to use the model correctly the EPS should be used to determine what type of enforcement action should be [...]