Site Manager and Director Sentenced after employee crushed to death.
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by Admin
3y ago
A waste recycling company, its director, their and site manager have been sentenced after the death of an employee and life-changing injuries of a second employee when they became trapped inside machinery. Mr S Hogg and Mr R Garrett were operating a waste processing line at the Aycliffe Quarry site of Stonegrave Aggregates Ltd in County Durham, Durham Crown Court was told. The machinery became blocked at various points including inside a large industrial trommel machine. The trommel incorporates a large perforated revolving drum, which acts to agitate, rotate and sieve the waste materials. The ..read more
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The (other) Invisible Threat
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by Admin
3y ago
“This is the biggest health crisis in my lifetime, worse than asbestos. Construction workers are ticking almost all of the at-risk boxes […] and the HSE is invisible; I’m amazed” Lawrence Waterman, British Safety Council After Boris Johnson ordered the Construction workers of the United Kingdom back-to- work he insisted that businesses would keep them safe from the virus and the HSE would be used to police that. However, the HSE Inspectors were quickly ordered back to barracks and routine inspections stopped, signalling the fact they thought it too dangerous to go into the workplaces people wh ..read more
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A Christmas message to all our Clients
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by Admin
3y ago
It’s been a tough year for all of us. Tough emotionally, tough in business, tough financially. Tough all round. Some of us have lost loved ones and were unable to see them before they passed, unable to mark their passing. Some of us have been unable to visit elderly parents and relatives for months, relatives who sometimes could not understand why. Some of us have had the virus and suffered badly. Others amongst us have had it but not really felt its effects. Some of us are terrified of catching it and become insular and reclusive. Home schooling, job losses, job uncertainty, isolation have b ..read more
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Developing Brownfield Sites
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by Admin
3y ago
A recent report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England reports that as many as 1.4 million brownfield sites could be suitable for development across England. There is undoubtably political will for the development of brownfield sites but the issue is the unknown cost of developing the land. A staged, sequential, logical gathering of data is recommended. This is following a model of land use suitability mapping and analysis Stage 1 Carry out a desk top exercise A Desktop study can be built which can then be the primary assessment tool throughout the project.  It would follow the GIS (Ge ..read more
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The Fire Safety Bill
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by Admin
3y ago
The continuing Government response to the Grenfell Fire disaster In March 2020, the Home Office introduced a new bill to improve fire safety in buildings in England and Wales. The proposed Fire Safety Bill will amend the Fire Safety Order 2005 to clarify that the responsible person or duty-holder for multi-occupied, residential buildings must manage and reduce the risk of fire for: • the structure and external walls of the building, including cladding, balconies and windows • entrance doors to individual flats that open into common parts. According to the government, this clarification aims t ..read more
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All things PAT Testing
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by Neil Denning
3y ago
All things PAT Testing The all-new 5th Edition of the IET Code of Practice for In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment (COPITSEE) is due to be published in October 2020 The Code was first published in 1994. When the Electricity at Work Regulations (EWR) came into force in 1989, the subject of electrical safety management was debated and in particular, how businesses could comply with the requirements of the Regulations in the workplace and manage on-going electrical safety The IEE formed a working group to look at the issue, and subsequently used their findings as a basis fo ..read more
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HSE ‘putting firms on the spot’ over COVID
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by Neil Denning
3y ago
The HSE say they carried out over 1,000 spot checks in the first few weeks after it resumed inspections. The safety inspectors restarted “proactive” inspections of construction sites at the back end of May. Figures for the three weeks between 26 May to 18 June show that the inspectorate carried out what it termed “spot checks” at 1,055 businesses across all sectors. In recent years, funding cuts have been blamed for a reduction in HSE inspections. However, in May this year, the Government made an additional £14m available for the HSE to respond to the increased n ..read more
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Fined for being bad at your job!
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by Neil Denning
4y ago
Well, its finally happened. Someone has been fined, at Court, for being incompetent. A Self-employed safety consultant was fined for breach of legislation for providing health and safety advice on technical and complex matters while not being qualified to advise his clients. Luton Crown Court heard how a self-employed health and safety consultant provided inadequate and flawed advice to small and medium sized enterprises on the management and control of risk in relation to hand arm vibration, work- place noise and the control of substances hazardous to health. Clive Weal of Torksey, Lincolnshi ..read more
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HSE Ramp up spot checks on business COVID Procedures
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by Admin
4y ago
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) are carrying out spot checks on businesses that have reopened since the UK went into lock-down. The HSE inspectors are visiting workplaces across a large range of sectors following up on any reports or concerns about safety procedures in the workplace including over COVID-19 and ensuring compliance. They are also carrying out pro-active checks to ensure that appropriate measures are in place to protect workers from COVID-19. Between 9 March and 29 June, they received 23,569 COVID-related contacts, of which 7784 were COVID-related concerns, 9944 ..read more
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Does any body remember Brexit?
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by Admin
4y ago
Is it true? Was it all a dream? Are we leaving or have we left? Brexit was on the top of everyone’s agenda, on everyone’s list, now it isn’t. Now its not spoken about. The problem is that as the date of ‘uncoupling’ draws near we have to look at our legal framework and access its viability, separate from that of Europe. Much of our legislation is local (made and appertaining to England and Wales) but it has taken its lead from European directives for decades now and without that steer we need to decide in what direction we are travelling and how best to maintain the legislation we already have ..read more
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