A tour bus operator, The Original London Sightseeing Tour Limited has been fined after a mechanical engineer suffered serious injuries while working underneath one of its vehicles. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the 58-year-old employee was working underneath the vehicle at a bus depot while reseating an airbag on one of the …
[0 comments] Read and discussWhat should risk assessments cover?
This has been a question that many businesses have asked over the years as they become frustrated as to what level their assessments need to go to. It seems that many tend to look for the obvious dangers and then sit back and claim that anything else was not foreseeable …
[0 comments] Read and discussMonitoring health and safety effectively
Over the last 8 years we have worked with hundreds of businesses and trained many more hundreds of people on health and safety. We have found that the vast majority initially failed to understand the importance of monitoring health and safety in a proactive way. Why is it that so many …
[0 comments] Read and discussConstruction failures cost £84,000
An accident whilst building the Arsenal football stadium resulted in three companies (the principal contractor and two sub-contractors) being prosecuted. The accident involved a man having his leg run over by a dumper truck on the site which resulted in the leg being amputated above the knee. The HSE investigation found …
[0 comments] Read and discussShortcuts often lead to accidents
Whilst assisting a client recently to investigate an accident, it became apparent that a combination of taking a short cut and a lack of concentration were the key contributory factors. As a safety professional, I know that most if not all accidents are caused by a failure in the management …
[0 comments] Read and discussHow can on-line DSE assessments help business
As can be seen in our previous blogs on DSE assessment we believe many businesses fail to understand the health risks to their staff from working with computers. Yet HSE figures tell us that this is a very real problem and one that could lead to significant absence time if …
[0 comments] Read and discussDo machines need guards?
We ask this question to those that use or supervise the use of machinery because in our experience many machine operators think not. We often are told that operator experience and skill is what will keep them safe from injury. But on further questioning they mainly fail to understand the …
[0 comments] Read and discussFire results in six executives prosecuted in Italy
An Italian CEO received a long prison sentence and the sentencing of five other executives came after one worker died in the blaze, while six others died later in hospital. ThyssenKrupps was also fined in relation to the fire, with some reports saying the fine was 1 million Euros and others …
[0 comments] Read and discussHealth & Safety can be just another tick in the box.
We know for many businesses that they have no interest in health & safety because they find it just too complicated; that's why they look for the tick in the box. However to ensure the tick in the box keeps your business and employees safe then you need someone to take the …
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