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
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
A garage-owning mechanic has been fined after a customer was injured picking up his car. The court heard the injured man’s car was parked in
A roofing company and two directors have been fined after a member of the public photographed unsafe practices. Enviroply Roofing Ltd carried out major refurbishment
A tractor-driving farmworker who ran over a boy has been jailed. It is thought the driver drank some 13 pints of beer the night before
A car components manufacturer has been fined after workers suffered back injuries from repeated manual lifting. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) received six reports
An ejector seat manufacturer has been fined £800,000 after breaching the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002. The court was told three
