Boss wants safety laws scrapped after Brexit
18th January 2017
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SME business leader and Brexiteer Simon Boyd has written to MPs with a list of Health & Safety laws he wants abolished once the UK
SME business leader and Brexiteer Simon Boyd has written to MPs with a list of Health & Safety laws he wants abolished once the UK
Getting hands caught in unguarded machinery is one of the most common causes of injury in manufacturing. More than 10 food and drinks firms were
The importance of keeping vehicles and people apart has been shown once more after a worker was forcibly struck by a moving vehicle. A ‘mechanical
Wilko, the budget high street retailer, has been fined more than £2 million for safety failings including not risk assessing the use of lift cages.
Firms are being asked to learn from an incident in which an engineering company was fined £150,000 after two workers suffered chemical burns. Workers were
A maximum jail sentence shows just how much company bosses can be personally held to account for safety failings. And as we’ve seen over the
Around a dozen deaths and 40,000 injuries happen every year in easily preventable incidents involving unguarded machinery. In another needless statistic, an alloy processing plant
Falls from height continue to make up a significant proportion of all workplace fatalities and serious injuries. Just over a quarter of all deaths last
A haulage boss and a mechanic have been found guilty of manslaughter after a faulty tipper truck ran out of control killing four people. The
A logistics company has been fined after two employees were seriously injured in two days. The court heard how an employee suffered crush injuries to