A £200,000 fine handed to a company for Health & Safety transgressions highlights the dangers involved in ‘Work at Height’. The court heard that an
Running a school is a risky business. But just how do you define “risk”? By law schools must be run in ways that make sure
A Canterbury school has been fined £18,000 and ordered to pay costs of almost £10,000 after a seven-year-old boy needed CPR during a swimming lesson.
On becoming an academy school, governing owner-operators take on legal responsibility for the Health & Safety of staff and students. If you govern an academy
The number of people on zero hour contracts is on the rise. Love them or loathe them, these contracts that do not guarantee workers a
An all-party MP group on occupational health recently reported there is an asbestos “time-bomb in our schools.” Huge numbers of schools built in the three
The 2015 case of Rooney v Western Education and Library Board shows how easily the law can impact on those responsible for school Health & Safety
Apprenticeships remain high on the Government’s agenda, despite everything else that is going on. The apprenticeship levy, payable by employers with annual pay bills of
Teachers received more than £16 million in compensation during 2015 for injuries, stress and discrimination suffered at work. The figures, released by the teachers’ union
Over the last few years, 10 children have been tragically killed by falling goalposts. The majority of these cases have involved children being hit by
