Two East Anglia companies have been prosecuted after a worker suffered serious injuries after a fall at work. This case demonstrates that companies should always take health and safety advice and employment law advice from expert professionals. A failure to apply proper health and safety standards in this particular incidence led to serious injuries to […]
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Long-term failings by GKN Aerospace leads to long-term nerve damage to workers
A Health and Safety Executive news release yesterday reported that GKN Aerospace has been fined after a number of its employees were left with significant long-term physical disabilities due to health and safety failings. GKN Aerospace is “one of the world’s largest independent first tier suppliers to the global aviation industry”. A GKN health surveillance […]
Health and safety in the workplace – a brief introduction
Under the law of England and Wales employers have obligations to their employees to take reasonable steps to prevent any physical or mental harm coming to them in the workplace. These obligations are both statutory and common law in nature. We’re going to have a brief look at these obligations in this post by examining […]
Health and safety breach in Gloucestershire leads to severed finger and fine
A Gloucestershire paper and the Health and Safety Executive are reporting that a Gloucester-shire based industrial company has been fined £4,000 after a nasty-sounding accident in its Lydney factory. The Albany Engineering Company Ltd, set up in 1900, owns the industrial factory in Lydney, which produces industrial pumps. To produce the pumps the factory uses […]