Tag: Health and Safety Executive
New guide offers dumper safety advice
THE Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group (SFPSG) has launched a good practice guide for the safe use of dumpers.
The guidance stemmed from an industry...
Worker breaks his back in digger bucket incident
A building firm has been fined after a worker suffered a broken back when he was struck by a bucket on a digger.
RMC Building...
Engineering firm fined after power line damaged
A sub-contracted plant operator had a narrow escape when the raised arms of his 20-tonne excavator hit the live power line as he drove...
Firms sentenced over dumper truck death
A Middlesex property development firm and a Buckinghamshire contractor have been ordered to pay a total of over £180,000 for safety failings after a...
HSE appoints new Chief Executive
DR Richard Judge has been appointed chief executive of Britain’s workplace health and safety regulator. He will start at the Health and Safety Executive in...
Firm heavily fined over telehandler death
GLOBAL engineering specialist Costain Limited has been ordered to pay more than £615,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed when a telehandler...
Firm fined after bulldozer tragedy
A construction firm and a bulldozer operator have been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was run over and killed while working on...
Firm fined after worker crushed by excavator
A construction firm has been fined for safety failings after a 27-year-old worker was seriously injured when he was struck by a reversing excavator.
Thomas Plumb, from Evesham, was...
Fatal fall from height leads to ladder warning
THE Ladder Association has reminded companies of the importance of training when working at heights following the tragic death of a roofing contractor.
Alan Beutner...
