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New safety advice issued on electric gates
2 Sep 2010, 11:08 amInstallers, designers, maintenance firms and manufacturers of electric gates, are being urged to seriously consider new safety advice issued by HSE today, following the recent deaths of two children involving these gates. The safety alert points out ... -
Safety notice – Risks to pedestrians from crushing zones on electrically powered gates
2 Sep 2010, 11:03 amActions required to prevent the trapping and crushing of persons by electrically powered gates. The purpose of this Safety Notice is to reinforce and update previous information to organisations and individuals involved in the design, construction, ... -
Project Assessment Report – Executive Summary for Urenco
2 Sep 2010, 9:00 amUrenco UK Ltd – UUK (the Licensee) has made a request, in accordance with their arrangements under License Condition 19, for an ‘Acknowledgment of Receipt’ of a Pre-Commencement Safety Report (PCSR). The primary purpose of this PCSR ... -
PAR – Executive Summary for Devonport Royal Dockyard
2 Sep 2010, 8:00 amThis Project Assessment Report (PAR) addresses the licensee’s request, for HSE’s agreement to implement a modification, for the purpose of docking of HMS Trafalgar in 15 Dock for long-term lay-up preparations. Read full Executive Summary for ... -
Company fined after two workers severely injured within three months
1 Sep 2010, 5:00 pmA Troon sawmilling firm has been fined a total of £28,000 after two of its employees were severely injured in separate incidents less than three months apart. On 28 May 2007, John Wilson, 55, of Dalmellington, Ayrshire, was working for Adam Wilson and ... -
Company and director prosecuted after worker plunges thirty feet
1 Sep 2010, 4:30 pmA building company and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 after a worker fell nearly thirty feet from scaffolding at a building site in Llanfairfechan, sustaining severe injuries. JBB Homes Ltd of St. Petersgate, Stockport in Cheshire ... -
PAR – Executive Summary for Sellafield
1 Sep 2010, 4:00 pmProject Assessment Report – Executive Summary for Sellafield Sellafield Ltd wrote to the Health & Safety Executive Nuclear Directorate in March 2010 requesting agreement for the introduction of a safety case to reduce the potential for chronic ... -
Scottish farmers urged to strap up during harvest
31 Aug 2010, 5:00 pmFarmers across Scotland are being reminded to wear safety straps when driving their tractors, especially during the busy harvest period. Not wearing a lap strap or seat restraint puts farmers at greater risk of being thrown from the cab and crushed ... -
Worker is left paralysed after being crushed by steel beam
27 Aug 2010, 4:00 pmA Doncaster housing developer was today fined £30,000 after a worker was left paralysed from the chest down when he was crushed by a steel beam weighing more than 660 pounds. Anton Burrows, 24, from Dewsbury was working as part of a bricklaying team ... -
Company heads prosecuted over hydraulic press injury
27 Aug 2010, 3:00 pmTwo Leeds-based company directors have been prosecuted after an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press. The 57-year-old worker, who asked not be named, had the ends of two fingers severed in the incident in April 2009 at Lupton ... -
HSE podcast – Agriculture: Royal Welsh Show
27 Aug 2010, 8:30 amWelcome to the August 2010 podcast. In this episode: We visit the Royal Welsh Show to find out what HSE is doing to reduce death and injury in agriculture. Latest news: HSE begins inspection programme of ageing offshore oil and gas installations, ... -
Schoolboy killed after falling through farm roof
26 Aug 2010, 4:00 pmA Moray farming partnership was yesterday (25 August 2010) fined £13,500 at Elgin Sheriff Court following an incident where a 13-year-old boy fell through the roof of a farm building and sustained serious injuries from which he later died. The incident ... -
Illegal gas fitter fined £8,000
26 Aug 2010, 3:15 pmA workman who falsely claimed to be a registered gas engineer has been fined £8,000 after installing gas appliances at an address in Hackney. The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Robert Fordham of Tring Road, Long Marston in Tring for ... -
RR824: Assessment of inward leakage tests for air fed suits
26 Aug 2010, 11:00 amThis report describes work carried out as part of an inter-laboratory round-robin exercise to investigate the practicality and usefulness of a simultaneous multi-point in-suit sampling protocol for the assessment of inward leakage into air fed suits ... -
Chemical manufacturers and suppliers CLP – new notification requirements
26 Aug 2010, 9:00 amNew CLP Regulation – Notification and notification deadlines. Notification is a new and very important duty in CLP. It is important that you understand what notification involves and, if you have to notify, that you do so on time. Chemical ...