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BAE Systems fined £50,000

Jocelyn Dorrell | Prosecutions and Claims | 03.09.2008

Case study: Barrington's concrete results

Andrea Oates | Case Study | 08.08.2008

This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridgeshire cement plant and quarrying operation has managed eight years with only one lost-time accident. Andrea Oates reports.

Barrington's concrete results

Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

Pillar to post: industrial doors

Mark Baugh | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

When is a door not a door? When it's a hazard. External industrial doors and their internal counterparts separating areas of warehouses and distribution centres can, if they are mis-specified, misused or neglected, be extremely hazardous, and lead to serious injuries. Mark Baugh of Caljan Rite-Hite discusses the ins and outs of industrial door safety.

Rolls-Royce pays £132,000 for fumes exposure

Prosecutions and Claims | 22.07.2008

Workplace machinery: on your guard

Michael Ellis | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008

Michael Ellis sets out the basics of managing physical barriers between moving machinery and human limbs.

Poultry firm fined for amputation

Prosecutions and Claims | 03.06.2008

Welder blinded by grinding disc

Prosecutions and Claims | 01.05.2008

Corus pays £200,000 penalty for crane death

Prosecutions and Claims | 30.04.2008

Finger amputated by adhesive machine

Prosecutions and Claims | 24.04.2008

Crane death "avoidable, pointless and unnecessary"

Prosecutions and Claims | 16.04.2008

COSHH failures led to metal fume fever in workers

Prosecutions and Claims | 14.04.2008

Pork factory fined after electrician burned

Prosecutions and Claims | 10.04.2008

Getting safety right on a multi-occupancy site

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008

In a multi-occupancy site, individual employers need to work with each other, as well as with landlords and contractors, so that everyone knows exactly who is responsible for what and where. Without this, hazards can too easily slip through the net until something goes wrong or someone gets hurt. Where do your safety duties begin and end? Lucie Ponting finds out.

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.

Five-digit damages for amputated fingers

Prosecutions and Claims | 06.03.2008

Confectionery firm fined

Prosecutions and Claims | 05.03.2008

Updated: Corus fined £250,000 for fatality

Prosecutions and Claims | 28.02.2008

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.

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