Tag: HampS
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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…
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CLC looks to F1 and aviation sectors for new H&S strategy
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has studied industries that “successfully learned from catastrophic incidents” to inform its new health, safety and wellbeing strategy. CLC is launching the strategy today (1 July) at a summit with sector organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), mental health charity Mates in Mind, the Construction Industry Advisory Board…
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Developer fined £63k after failing to meet ‘most basic H&S standards’
A London property developer has been fined £63,000 after safety inspectors found health and safety failures “so serious” that a construction site in East London had to be closed on two separate occasions. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated Nofax Enterprises following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13-month period…