newsIn the run up to the festive period, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is working with local authorities to inspect businesses in the transport and logistics industry to ensure they are managing the risk of coronavirus (Covid-19).
newsA&D Logistics, a national logistics haulier, has been fined after a worker suffered flash burn injuries when there was an explosion as he opened the door of a container.
articleThe HSE has released annual injury and ill-health statistics for Great Britain, showing that Great Britain is still one of the safest places in the world to work with the lowest number of deaths on record. However, more than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.
newsA transport company has been fined after a worker was fatally injured when the pallet of stone tiles he was attempting to deliver fell onto him.
newsHSE has updated its guidance for people who work in or run warehouses, factories and plants.
newsThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is calling for businesses in Great Britain to make sure they’re COVID-secure.
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news51-year-old David Wain suffered serious injuries when a 1.5 tonne pallet of tin plates fell onto his right lower leg and foot when he was employed by Emballator UK at its factory in Bradford. Emballator UK was fined £12,000 and ordered to pay £3,769 in full costs.
productA worker was crushed between two HGVs in a warehouse used for recycling, which led to a prosecution and fine for DS Smith Paper.
newsA site supervisor has been fined after a co-worker was left paralysed after falling ten metres from the roof of a Tyneside warehouse.
blogThe Dartford Crossing has been a congestion pinch point for a long time but the upcoming development of the London Gateway port creates yet more pressure for smoothing the way.
newsThree South East firms have been ordered to pay a total of £685,787.31 in fines and costs for serious safety breaches after a plumber died and six other workers were seriously injured by a barrage of flying gas cylinders.
productThe team behind a British bid to smash the world land speed record has taken delivery of new equipment vital for testing its supersonic, jet powered car.
newsA Suffolk-based freight company has been sentenced for a series of safety breaches after a forklift truck toppled and spilled its load onto a worker, breaking his back.
newsA 50-year-old man was using an overhead travelling crane, which runs along rails on the factory roof of Firth Rixson Metals, to lift an open-sided container carrying more than 50 long metal tubes.
newsSheet metal packs were being unloaded from a flatbed lorry using a tandem lift by two counter-balanced forklift trucks when the load fell and crushed the worker’s legs.
newsA recycling company has been fined for safety failings after a worker lost his arm after trapping it between a roller and the belt of a moving conveyor at a site in North East London. System was missing important safety guards.
articleThe Health & Safety Executive recently threw down a challenge to the forklift industry to take a leadership role in trying to drive down forklift related fatalities and injuries. At the recent Safety Conference held by the Fork Lift Truck Association, Jane Willis, cross-cutting interventions director, Health & Safety Executive gave the keynote address.
newsA recycling firm in Bolton has been fined after an employee was badly injured when he was struck by a steel beam weighing more than 100kg.
productTwo men have been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell through a fragile warehouse roof in Poole.
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