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Nightclub failed to report injury

Prosecutions and Claims | 15.07.2008

Hotel ignored "endless" fire warnings

Prosecutions and Claims | 24.04.2008

Lowering the tones: noise in the entertainment sector

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008

From this month, the music and entertainment sector has to fall in with new noise regulations. The change represents a potentially baffling challenge to the sector, and looks set to produce major changes both in attitude and practice in music venues across the UK. Becky Allen finds out how the Royal Opera House has coped.

Club owners' £80,000 penalty for lift fall

Prosecutions and Claims | 03.04.2008

Mcdonald's fined after employee is scalded by hot oil

Prosecutions and Claims | 31.03.2008

Hotel failed to report accidents

Prosecutions and Claims | 25.03.2008

Staying in one piece: slips, trips and falls

Eddie Bailey | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008

Slips, trips and falls currently account for one fatality a week and 38% of all major workplace injuries. Last month the HSE launched a campaign, Shattered Lives, which is aimed at creating a step-change in the attitudes of both businesses and their workers in several sectors. The HSE's Eddie Bailey explains how it will help practitioners win hearts and minds.

When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing

Howard Fidderman | Features | HSB | 27.02.2008

Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, how have the courts been sentencing employers convicted of health and safety crimes? And what will be the impact of the new sentencing guidelines for manslaughter when they come into force later this year? Howard Fidderman believes that sentencing should not be left to the courts.

Heavy rice sacks cost food firm £53,000

Prosecutions and Claims | 04.02.2008

A food firm which allowed employees to balance on pallets on fork-lift trucks and unload 50kg sacks of rice by hand has been ordered to pay £53,000.

Lighter regulation questions

News | HSW | 12.12.2007

Dealing with dust extraction

Andy Quail | Features | HSW | 01.12.2007

Andy Quail, commercial director at Carter-Thorne, explains why it is important to think ahead when dealing with dust extraction

Communication and consultation

Lawrence Waterman | Features | HSW | 01.12.2007

In the last of his Back to Basics series, Lawrence Waterman outlines best practice approaches to workforce engagement

Marshalling expertise

Dave Lewis | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007

The actions of staff in the event of a fire are likely to be crucial to their safety and the safety of other people in the premises. Dave Lewis outlines the role and training needs of fire marshals.

Safeguarding workers abroad

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007

Business travel is an integral part of many Britons' jobs. Despite huge advances in information and communications technology, UK residents made more than nine million journeys abroad for work last year - up 12% since 2004. But what toll does it take on their health and safety and how can the risks be best managed? Becky Allen reports.

Taking the lead: first HSW conference

Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007

Leadership and the need for senior management engagement were the themes that occurred at the recent HSW Conference. Delegates were given an overview of current and future developments in regulation, such as corporate manslaughter, and good practice on issues ranging from accident reduction to the new CDM Regulations.

Behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum

Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007

London's Natural History Museum houses the world's oldest pieces of jewellery and plant fossils among its collections. And now the museum's head of health and safety has his own record to boast, having steered the museum to be the first accredited to the OHSAS 18001 international safety management standard. Louis Wustemann reports.

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Nightclub failed to report injury

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