TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - 21.05.2024
£1.2m fine after worker hit by wagon
A metals recycling company has been fined £1.2m after a worker was injured after being struck by a wagon at a processing site. How did this happen and what reasonably practicable control measures would have prevented it?
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VEHICLES - 21.05.2024
Rethinking views on traffic incidents
Work-related injury? National Highways is concerned that there are five deaths on UK roads each day. There are 500,000 heavy goods vehicles registered in the UK with 5m vans, 1m company cars and 14m in the grey fleet. Considering this makes up around half of all vehicles on the road, a large proportion of these accidents will be work-related. Yet they are currently not reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 . ...
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LOADING OPERATIONS - 09.05.2024
Forklift truck driver killed whilst loading a lorry
An Oldham-based haulage company has been fined more than £85,000 after a forklift truck (FLT) driver was killed while loading a heavy goods vehicle. What happened and what can you learn from their mistakes?
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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - 23.04.2024
Serious mistakes led to amputation
A food manufacturing company has been fined £400,000 after one of its employees had to have her leg amputated. What happened and what should have been in place to prevent the accident occurring?
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WORKPLACE - 27.02.2024
Worker fatally struck by moving vehicle
A worker was killed whilst moving around a recycling site. What lessons can be learned from the failures in this case and what controls can you implement to prevent a similar occurrence on your premises?
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WORKPLACE - 25.01.2024
Crush risk from lorry loader stabilisers
Serious risk of injury or death when a powered tilting stabiliser is being rotated to a vertical position has been identified in the HSE’s latest safety alert. What’s to know?
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