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Government cuts road safety spending
Posted: February 5, 2013
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents Car Accidents Motorcycle Accidents Road Traffic Accidents
The government has cut spending on road safety campaigns from £19 million in 2008/09 to just £4 million in 2011/12 – a cut of nearly 80%. The figure was revealed after a freedom of information enquiry by road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). The Department for Transport is planning on spending £3.57 […]
Read MoreEuropean Parliament adopts report on asbestos
Posted: January 29, 2013
Posted in: Asbestos Exposure Employer Negligence Industrial Deafness and Disease
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament has adopted a report on dealing with the problem of asbestos, reports the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). The report is largely in line with the stated aims of the ETUC and organisations representing asbestos victims in different countries. The report explores the different […]
Read MoreCourt case highlights poor machine safety
Posted: January 24, 2013
Posted in: Employer Negligence Faulty Work Equipment Finger Injuries Workplace Injuries
A food manufacturer has appeared in court for safety offences after one of its workers lost the tip of her finger using a badly-guarded machine in a Doncaster factory. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the incident and prosecuted the company for breaching regulations designed to safeguard workers using machinery. Doncaster Magistrates heard that […]
Read MoreReducing occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses
Posted: January 15, 2013
Posted in: Industrial Deafness and Disease Medical Negligence Workplace Injuries
There were 541 reports of needle stick injuries that exposed healthcare workers to patients carrying bloodborne viruses in 2011, twice as many as a decade ago (2002) when 271 exposures were reported. The figures come from the Health Protection Agency’s fourth Eye of the Needle report, which includes occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses in healthcare […]
Read MoreDrivers unprepared for winter weather dangers
Posted: January 9, 2013
Posted in: Road Traffic Accidents
Brake, the road safety charity, and Churchill Car Insurance are urging drivers to commit to safe driving this winter, as research shows many drivers are dangerously complacent about precautions for snow, ice and rain. The call comes as a survey of 1,000 drivers revealed: Only one in six drivers (16%) follow safety advice and avoid […]
Read MoreFirms fined after worker suffered serious head injuries
Posted: December 18, 2012
Posted in: Head and Brain Injuries Workplace Injuries
Two North East firms have been fined after a worker suffered serious head injuries when the fork of a forklift truck struck him on the forehead. Jim McGowan was employed by an engineering services firm, which had secured a contract to remove redundant machinery and equipment at the premises of a company in Hartlepool. Mr […]
Read MoreBetter protection from electromagnetic fields
Posted: December 11, 2012
Posted in: Workplace Injuries
New rules to improve the safety of workers most exposed to electromagnetic fields with protective measures and new maximum exposure limits have been approved by a large majority in the European Parliament’s social affairs and employment committee. The draft law applies to all sectors but chiefly concerns workers exposed to high risks, for example in […]
Read MoreCall for Government to slow down personal injury reforms
Posted: December 5, 2012
Posted in: Personal Injury Public Place Accidents Road Traffic Accidents Workplace Injuries
The Law Society has warned that rushed implementation of Part 2 of the Legal Aid, Sentence and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) risks adding to costs and clogging up the civil courts. In a letter to Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, Law Society president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff said more time must be given […]
Read MoreFood company fined for failing to protect workers
Posted: November 30, 2012
Posted in: Employer Negligence Falls from Heights Shoulder Injuries Spine & Back Injuries Workplace Injuries Workplace Slip
A global ingredients company has been fined for safety failings after two workers were seriously injured in separate incidents a year apart at its UK manufacturing base near Hitchin. In the first incident, in July 2009, a maintenance engineer fell more than two metres while attempting to clean flour product from inside an elevated conveyor. […]
Read MoreReducing dog attacks on postal workers
Posted: November 27, 2012
Posted in: Animal Attacks Workplace Injuries
Royal Mail has welcomed an independent report calling for new legislation with tougher legal sanctions to be introduced against owners of dogs which attack postmen and women. Over 3000 postmen and women were attacked across the UK by dogs from April 2011 to April 2012. The report highlights that the legal sanctions currently available in […]
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