DHL has been fined £2.6m after a man was killed and three others injured after a stack of tyres toppled and fell through the adjacent roof of an office where they were working at the Coventry warehouse.
By Belinda Liversedge on 23 October 2019
The use of technology to improve safety systems and manage risk information is becoming more relevant and integrated than ever before. Safety Management finds out how to build a risk map to focus on major risks.
By Iris Cepero on 28 October 2019
Do you find that despite your company having operator training, risk assessments and relevant safe systems of work in place, forklift accidents, near misses and bad habits persist?
By Stuart Taylor, Mentor FLT Training on 23 September 2019
A Hull tyre company has been ordered to pay over £41,000 in costs and fines after its employee lost his arm when a crane tyre he was inflating exploded in an incident in December 2015.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019
A no deal Brexit will result in exhausted lorry drivers, posing a danger to themselves and other road users, unless the government responds to concerns, Unite the union has warned.
By Belinda Liversedge on 04 September 2019
Volvo Group UK Limited has been fined £13,333.33 after an employee was seriously injured at its truck rental and repair depot in Glasgow after the company had failed to supply him with basic safety equipment.
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 August 2019
The way in which some people, often young, but not exclusively, are engaged in work is in jobs that are part of what is commonly referred to as the ‘gig economy’.
By Lawrence Waterman OBE on 22 July 2019
Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd (GTR) has today, 17 July, been fined £1 million after a passenger died when he opened a window marked ‘press and pull down to open’ and struck his head against a steel gantry.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 July 2019
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited, part of the Balfour Beatty Group, has been fined £600,000 after a worker was fatally struck by a 14 tonne wheeled excavator.
By Belinda Liversedge on 26 February 2019
A demolition contractor has been fined £134,000 after two men were forced to improvise work at height equipment when their employer removed a scissor lift from the site.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 January 2019
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 November 2018
By Peter Harvey, the Fork Lift Truck Association on 26 September 2017
By Jeremy Luscombe at Resonics discusses the effects on productivity from open-plan offices on 29 January 2018
