The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging businesses to focus on their legal responsibility to ensure lives are not put at risk and make the safety of workers their top priority for 2014. The fresh appeal comes as new figures show that two people lost their...
Michael Galloway, trading as MG Construction, was fined £2,500 and also given a 12 month conditional discharge after pleading guilty at Newry Crown Court to three breaches of health and safety legislation. The case arose when materials containing asbestos were...
A Crieff-based groundworks company has been fined for safety failings after a 20 year-old worker had to have a leg amputated when it was crushed during the construction of Griffin Wind Farm in Perth and Kinross. Gregor Steele, from Perthshire, suffered severe injuries...
A Sheffield company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a worker was injured by an unguarded angle grinder. Sam Ashford, 27, of Shiregreen, Sheffield, was using the angle grinder on a stone block while landscaping a domestic property on 9 August 2011 when it...
