Managers at a recycling firm where a scrap metal worker was killed after suffering head injuries have been convicted of health and safety failings in a case brought by CPS Special Crime Division.
By Belinda Liversedge on 25 February 2022
After winning a string of awards from the British Safety Council in 2020, FCC Environment decided the time was ripe to enter the Five Star Audit, determined that the coronavirus pandemic would not stop progress.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 June 2021
A waste management company has been fined £1.2m after an employee was killed by a reversing lorry.
By Belinda Liversedge on 14 April 2021
Two recycling firms are to be charged over the deaths of five African men who were fatally crushed by a collapsing wall at a site in Birmingham over four years ago.
By Belinda Liversedge on 03 December 2020
A Cornish waste recycling company has been fined £200,000 for corporate manslaughter after an employee was killed at its Redruth plant.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 November 2020
“We are black families, our lives matter”: Relatives of workers killed in wall collapse still waiting for justice four years on.
By Belinda Liversedge on 09 July 2020
Along with countless medical and care professionals, frontline staff in the waste and resource management industry are also identified as key workers. And, as the prime minister has unveiled a “conditional plan” to reopen society in the face of coronavirus, the waste sector has been adapting to the new normal for several months.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 April 2020
Waste management company, Peter Norris (Haulage) Ltd has been fined £140,000 after an agency worker suffered lower leg amputation after being struck by a moving excavator.
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 February 2020
A waste recycling company has been fined £1.2m after an employee lost part of his arm in a conveyor belt.
By Belinda Liversedge on 23 October 2019
Back in 2016, Biffa, a leading national recycling and waste management provider, launched a campaign to tackle the risk of workers being injured while collecting waste by motorists driving on pavements.
By Dave West, regional health and safety coach, Biffa on 01 May 2018
