Leathley, Bridget | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine
Published: 08.09.2008
Even if most of the time you work in a busy office or factory, you may be a lone worker at some time. Working late, travelling for work or working at home can all constitute lone working. Bridget Leathley tracks down the best online guidance on safe lone working.
Offshore firms fined £1.2 million over death of worker
Offshore operator Talisman Energy UK and contractor Aker Kvaerner Offshore Partner have together b ...
£250,000 fine for lorry crushing death
A haulage firm has been fined £250,000 over the death of a driver who was crushed between tw ...
Roofing firm left 50m-long edges unprotected
Roofing contractor Abercorn Homes has been handed a £23,000 bill for unsafe work at height a ...
Updated: Director disqualified for illegal asbestos work
A director of two asbestos firms must pay penalties of £44,000 and has been disqualified fro ...
Card retailer culpable for pensioner's fall
A greetings card retailer has been fined £15,000 after an elderly woman tripped over a box i ...
Published: 08.09.2008
Even if most of the time you work in a busy office or factory, you may be a lone worker at some time. ...
Published: 08.09.2008
Most people know that risk assessment is a lynchpin of health and safety at work, and the HSE says "f ...
Published: 05.09.2008
Cascade or train-the-trainer systems involve training a small group who then pass on what they know t ...
Published: 05.09.2008
Exams for professional safety qualifications are no different from any others. They create the same a ...
E-learning: avoiding systems failure
Published: 05.09.2008
There are few areas of life which have not been changed by the coming of the internet. The way we wor ...
Case study: Barrington's concrete results
This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridg ...
Case study: And the winners are...
Wales' water utility literally prizes its contractors safety initiatives, as Sara Bean discovers.
Case study: Leeds Hospitals' burning issue
"The main thing about the new Order," observes Peter Aldridge, fire safety manager ...
Case study: Liverpool Council's ticket to drive
The corporate manslaughter legislation has put driver safety in the spotlight. Jocelyn Dorrell ...
If two heads are better than one, how much better are 14? David Gault would argue 14 work well when i ...
Following changes to the rules on displaying employers' liability insurance certificates, the HSE ...
HAVS forces 25-year-old out of job
Norfolk County Council has paid former roadworker Adrian Bideau £262,000 in compensation aft ...
A new toolkit to help employers in retail and licensed premises manage the risk of workplace viole ...
Leadership checklist published
The HSE has published a checklist for directors and governors on health and safety leadership. ...
English lessons improve street cleaning safety
Brighton and Hove City Council is working with the GMB union to offer English language classes to ...
Question: FLT Training
It has been suggested to me that persons over 40 operating a FLT has to be re-tested. Could this possibly be true?
Oct 07 2008 11:12AM
All operators must be re-tested regardles of age at least between three to five ...
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