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One of the UK’s main professional health and safety bodies is warning that British businesses are failing to tackle the risks of injury and illness in the workplace. A survey, published by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), reveals employers are underestimating the importance of worker protection and are placing it low on […]

Fines totalling £18,700 have been handed down after a foreman died when an excavator bucket filled with concrete fell on him at a London construction site. Euro Earthworks Ltd general foreman, Gerry Fox, was crushed by an excavator bucket when it fell from the arm of the 12 tonne excavator being driven by a colleague. […]

Motorists are being warned to insure their vehicles ahead of a new crackdown to tackle the menace of uninsured driving and reduce the number of road traffic accidents. Under the new Continuous Insurance Enforcement law – which will affect all motorists from 20th June – it is an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather […]

Workers could be at risk of recurring injury in a proposed trade-off against business costs, a not-for-profit campaign group has warned. The warning came after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) closed its consultation on proposals to amend the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) with the aim of employers only having […]

A six-year-old Norfolk boy has won £4.6 million in compensation after incurring serious brain damage during his birth in 2004, reports the BBC. His lawyers argued that the damage occurred when midwives failed to notice that the baby’s heartbeat was abnormal. The lawyers claimed that the normal heartbeat the midwives were listening to, believing it […]

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