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5 high health and safety fines from the second quarter of 2022

1st August 2022 No Comments

BLOG Written on 1 August 2022 With the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently releasing its latest round of fatal injury statistics, employers are yet again

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Health and safety in education | 5 fines from 2021 and focuses for 2022

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BLOG Written by Scott Crichton on 4 January 2022 Whilst COVID-19 continues to create issues within education – particularly in respect to Omicron and the updated guidance

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SSP changes mean employers cannot demand a doctor’s note until 28 days

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BLOG Written on 21 December 2021 Employees who are sick or self-isolating can normally self-certify for the first seven days of absence. This means following

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HSE annual statistics 2020/21 | The impact of COVID-19

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BLOG Written on 16 December 2021 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today released its annual summary statistics for Great Britain in 2020/21. The

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Contractors and volunteers | Are you overlooking the health and safety of non-employees?

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BLOG Written on 29 October 2021 When you think about workplace health and safety, your probably think about protecting your workers. However, under Section 3 of

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Highest recent health and safety fines, including record-breaking £6.5m penalty

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BLOG Written on 31 August 2021 Label photo created by ededchechine – www.freepik.com We recently learned that a total of 142 workers were killed at work

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Pingdemic panic | Do employees need to self-isolate if notified by the COVID-19 app?

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BLOG Written by James Tamm on 22 July 2021 The delta variant has led to a nationwide ‘pingdemic’, with record numbers of people self-isolating. At

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Staycations, sickness and self-isolation | How to manage short-term summer absences

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BLOG Written by Alexandra Farmer on 5 July 2021 It’s not uncommon for businesses to experience higher levels of planned and unplanned absences over the summer months.

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Violence against retail staff | Employers’ duties during COVID-19

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BLOG Written on 2 June 2021 All businesses have been impacted by COVID-19 in some way or another. However, for retailers, COVID-19 has presented another

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“Patchy and inadequate” | 8 high health and safety fines handed to employers recently

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BLOG The coronavirus pandemic has brought workplace health and safety sharply into focus. Having spent over a year implementing and revising infection control measures in

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