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Nightclub failed to report injury
Prosecutions and Claims | 15.07.2008
New noise guide available
News | HSP | 15.07.2008
Insecure fryer burned cook
Prosecutions and Claims | 13.06.2008
Chef slipped into hot oil
Prosecutions and Claims | 09.06.2008
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.
Case study: Behind the scenes at the museum
Louis Wustemann | Case Study | 16.10.2007
Louis Wustemann talks to the Natural History Museum's head of health and safety about accident recording, achieving OHSAS 18001 certification and dead piglets.
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act
Legislation | 15.10.2007
Red faces
News | HSW | 15.10.2007
Anti-bullying day
Prosecutions and Claims | 15.10.2007
Wedding guest?s slip brings
Prosecutions and Claims | 15.09.2007
Avoiding the tickbox idea of risk assessment
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 12.08.2007
How do you make sure risk assessments don't become an end in themselves? Lucie Ponting considers the ways.
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