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• Immediate Reporting of Accidents and Injuries is Absolutely Essential, says HSE

  
  The PontiffBot — Authority: 132
  KTC (Edibles) Ltd was recently fined £12,500 as well as asked to pay costs to the tune of £2,388 for a number of offences under the Health and Safety Act, 1974 and for violation of Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulation, 1995. HSE investigating the company stated that a number of ...
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• Father and Son to Go Behind Bars for Breach of Health and Safety Law

  
  EBYX Center — Authority: 126
  The owner of a fireworks firm and his 25-year-old son has been jailed after being convicted of killing two fire fighters due to their negligence. The firemen were killed in a massive blast at their family-run company named Alpha Fireworks Ltd (formerly called Festival Fireworks UK Ltd). The owner Martin Winter ...
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• Festival Fireworks Owners Jailed for Fatal Accident

  
  Your Vacnation Center — Authority: 130
  The owners of erstwhile Festival Fireworks UK Ltd have been given a jail sentence in a case regarding a fire accident at their factory, which claimed the life of two fire fighters. In defence, the company’s lawyers had said that the firemen should have been aware of the risks. The accident occurred in late ...
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• How to Conduct a Fire Risk Assessment

  
  Small Business Association — Authority: 140
  A responsible boss considers the safety of the business and all of the employees literally. A stable company requires a both health and safety protocol. Fire safety must be one of the priorities on the list. Fire outbreaks can turn a business into nothing in a snap of a finger. No sane boss or business owner wants ...
  2 days ago

• Where We Stand

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 126
  Maybe when all the college bowl games finally end, and when the president gets back from Hawaii, and when all the political pundits come back from vacation and the cable news “personalities” return and relieve the insufficiently-outraged second-string hosts, the actual year and the new decade will start – but ...
  2 days ago

• Information Security Risk Assessment Template

  
  A Screaming "O" — Authority: 157
  When it comes to ensuring information security, information security risk assessment is a very important part. For example a comprehensive programme implemented in a firm for the function of enhancing information security will gain the trust and the faith that a client will place on a firm. First of all, a sound ...
  4 days ago

• Role of the forensic psychiatric nurse

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 138
  Role of the forensic psychiatric nurse, Journal of Forensic Nursing,  2009; 5(1): 53-7 Abstract:  The article clarifies the role of the forensic psychiatric nurse (FPN) and challenges interchangeable terms confusing forensic and correctional nursing. It addresses the varied venues where the FPN may ...
  4 days ago

• Trespasser’s Injuries Result in Fine for Quarry Owner

  
  Communication Order Hub — Authority: 125
  The Health and Safety Executive pressed charges against the owner of a quarry after a teenaged boy gained unauthorised access to the work site and sustained injuries after a fall within the premises. Two other cases recently have also been investigated by HSE in which members of public were injured in the premises of ...
  4 days ago

• Company Pays Fine for Injury to Trespasser

  
  SY6 Blog — Authority: 131
  Tarmac Ltd, a Wolverhampton based company, had to pay a fine of £10,000 and costs of suit of £6,000 after a 15-year-old boy got unauthorised entry inside their Cornelly Quarry and fell from a height of 50ft in May, 2008. He suffered grave injuries including a broken elbow, fractured wrist and chipped pelvis. ...
  4 days ago

• Factory Owner Prosecuted for Accident at Factory Site

  
  YTPF Blog — Authority: 128
  Keeping fireworks in unlicensed metal containers landed Martin Winter, owner of a fireworks factory, in deep trouble. Winter knew the potential dangers the fireworks posed if caught in a blaze, yet he did nothing to avert a possible catastrophe. The catastrophe finally occurred in the form of a massive explosion at ...
  5 days ago

• Factory Owner Accused of Gross Negligence after Firemen Die in Explosion

  
  Truly Affordable — Authority: 132
  A fireworks factory owner has been accused of manslaughter after two firemen died in a major explosion that occurred at the factory in December 2006. The blast also resulted in injuries, and 20 people were injured. The people who died were Fireman Geoff Wicker and support officer Brian Wembridge. The blast ...
  5 days ago

• Court Gives Verdict in Three-Year-old Factory Blast Case

  
  Content State — Authority: 129
  A blast in the East Sussex factory of Festival Fireworks UK Limited in December 2006 had killed two people and badly injured around 20 more people. The deceased were fire fighter Geoff Wicker and support officer Brian Wembridge, who were shooting the incident with their camera while the other officers were getting ...
  5 days ago

• HSE Warns Against Use of Agricultural Machines for Transport

  
  InfoTavern — Authority: 131
  The Health and Safety Executive has warned against the use of agricultural machines for any purpose other than their intended one, following an accident that occurred on a farm. In the accident, an employee lost his life as he fell off the machine he was travelling on. The accident occurred in 2007 on an ...
  6 days ago

• HSE Urges Employers to Exchange their Defective Ladders

  
  Unrelating — Authority: 129
  HSE has rolled out its Ladder Exchange scheme to get rid of damaged ladders from work premises. The scheme will continue till December 31. This scheme that allows employers to trade their old, broken ladders for new and safe ones has been quite a success. The scheme also allows for thorough examination of ...
  1 week ago

• HSE Encourages Businesses to Join Ladder Exchange Program

  
  The Fast Mystic — Authority: 132
  With HSE’s Ladder exchange Program is currently underway and is scheduled to close at the end of the year. The body has been involved in encouraging business owners to take part in the program. Run with the help of retailers, trade associations and manufacturers, the program allows business owners to have their ...
  1 week ago

• Company Fined for Lack of Fire Safety Measures in its Premises

  
  ASTools — Authority: 130
  Businesses unmindful of fire safety in their premises had better watch out! In a recent prosecution, Southampton-based ATS Euromaster has been fined £7,500 for not having proper fire safety measures in its workplace. Fire Safety Officers from Hampshire Fire and Rescue Services (HFRS) in a recent visit to the ...
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• Heavy Fine Imposed Due to Failure to Meet Fire Safety Standards

  
  The Smart Pounder — Authority: 132
  Two years back, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Services Fire Safety Officers held a fire safety investigation at the Southampton property of ATS Euromaster and found various contraventions of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. During the investigation, it was found that one of the fire exits was ...
  1 week ago

• What’s In Your Wallet?

  
  Risktical Ramblings — Authority: 99
  A few weeks back I jumped feet first into a blog post at Securosis by David Mortman titled “ Changing The Game ”. There are a lot of comments but one comment in particular by Rich Mogull has resulted in me doing some soul searching, adding a new question to my bank of interview questions, and forcing me to write ...
  1 week ago

• Sellafield Prosecuted for Negligence towards Workers’ Safety

  
  Igbo Land — Authority: 130
  Sellafield Ltd has been heavily fined after two of its workers inhaled toxic dust while working in a nuclear plant owned by the company. The incident that occurred on 11 July 2007 at Sellafield Nuclear Licensed Site in Cumbria was followed by an HSE investigation, and the company was prosecuted when it was ...
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• Nuclear Plant Fined After Radiation Exposure to Workers

  
  Kabuki Loans — Authority: 128
  Nuclear plant Sellafield Ltd has been fined after two workers were exposed to radiation at their plutonium finishing and storage site at Cumbria. The company pleaded guilty to the charges and accepted responsibility for the mishap. The mishap occurred in 2007 and involved two workers who were working in a ...
  1 week ago

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