Category: HSE
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HSE inspectors target Manchester construction sites
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced a series of inspections at construction sites across Manchester city centre this week. <!–/* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”,serif; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:#467886; mso-themecolor:hyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#96607D; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes;…
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Highways firm handed £1m fine after worker death
A construction company has been fined £1 million after a road resurfacing project ended in tragedy in May 2022. Robert Morris, who was working on the project in Haringey, north London, was struck and killed by a reversing road-sweeper. Marlborough Highways Ltd, Morris’ employer, was handed the fine earlier this month following a joint investigation…
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Two firms fined £95k after worker falls through rooflight
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has successfully prosecuted two companies after a construction worker fell through a rooflight at a factory, impaling his leg on machinery below. A.T. Lee Properties Ltd and LJH Property Ltd were fined a combined total of more than £95,000 following the incident in Keighley, Yorkshire. Directors for each firm…
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FPS publishes updated rig safety guidance
The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has published the latest edition of its Working Platform Certificate (WPC/4e) to support rig safety across the industry. Originally developed in partnership with the Health and Safety Executive, the WPC requires the principal contractor to confirm that platforms are properly designed, constructed, and maintained for the equipment operating on…
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Builder avoids jail after roof collapse injures three and destroys home
However, on the day itself, he instructed his workers to remove key supporting timbers and steels. This resulted in the collapse of the brick gable wall, striking the workers and destroying the first floor of the home, which was occupied at the time. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Contractor fined after collapsing wall kills ‘full of life’ employee
A building company has been fined £56,775 after an employee was crushed to death when a 1.8m-high retaining wall collapsed on him. Gary Anstey, 57, from Bristol, was working for H Mealing & Sons Ltd at a school construction site in Bath when the incident happened on 19 March 2019. An investigation by the Health…
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Builder fined after boy’s skull fractured by falling pipe
A construction company and its director have been fined after a five-year-old child was injured by a falling cast-iron pipe. The incident happened on 20 July 2021 when Sage Homes Ltd was carrying out work on an extension to a house in Totton, near a local primary school. A cast-iron pipe fell onto a passing…
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HSE finds most workplaces lack essential noise protection knowledge
“If your defence against workplace noise is to give your workers hearing protection, then you need to check that it works. How confident are you that the hearing protection you have supplied is in good order, is being worn when it should be, how it should be, and that it is not stopping your workers…
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HSE issues plant safety warning
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning about the risk of people being struck by an excavator or a load if the operator does not use the isolation device correctly. HSE published a safety notice after a slinger was fatally crushed between the quick hitch and a fixed structure during a lifting…
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Tata Steel fined £1.5m after ‘basic’ H&S failures that led to contractor’s death
Tata Steel has been fined £1.5m following the death of a contractor at its Port Talbot steelworks plant on 25 September 2019. Forty-four-year-old Justin Day was working at the steel manufacturer’s site in South Wales when he was crushed to death by a piece of machinery. On the day of the accident, a hydraulic leak…