HSE publishes data on workplace injury in Scotland
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently published provisional statistics on workplace ill-health and injury in Scotland in 2011/12. The figures show that: The HSE has also revealed that in 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available across the EU, the standardised rate of work-related fatal injury excluding traffic accidents was […]
Government puts safety law back by 100 years
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has claimed that a new clause introduced to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill by the Government has put workplace health and safety back into the Victorian age. APIL president Karl Tonks explained: “At the moment, where an employer has been found to have breached health and safety […]
Fee for Intervention now in operation
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new cost recovery scheme, with the aim of recovering the costs of inspecting, investigating and taking enforcement action against businesses that break health and safety laws. Known as Fee for Intervention (FFI), the scheme began to operate on 1st October and will enable the HSE to […]
Government red tape blitz
Shops, offices, pubs and clubs will no longer face health and safety inspections, and over 3,000 regulations will be scrapped or overhauled in a radical plan by the Government to curb red tape and boost British business growth. From April 2013, the Government intends to introduce binding new rules on both the Health & Safety […]
Firms fined for fall down lift shaft
Three companies were ordered to pay a total of £232,000 in fines and costs after two workers on an Exeter building site suffered severe injuries when the platform they were working on collapsed and fell four storeys down a lift shaft. One of the companies had been served with a prohibition notice by the HSE […]
Proposals to exempt self-employed from health and safety law
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has opened a three-month consultation on proposals to exempt self-employed people whose work activities pose no potential risk of harm to others from health and safety law. The Löfstedt review recommended that people who work for themselves be taken out of health and safety law if their work posed […]
New figures published for fatally injured workers
New official statistics have shown that the number of workers fatally injured in Britain last year remains largely unchanged. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released provisional data for April 2011 to March 2012, which shows 173 workers were killed – down two from the previous year. The rate of fatal injury remains the […]
British road casualties increase
The Department for Transport has published statistics showing that in 2011 more people died or were injured in reported accidents on British roads than in the previous year. In particular: • The annual number of people killed in road accidents reported to the police has increased by 3%, from 1,850 in 2010 to 1,901 in […]
Compensation for workplace accidents
InjuriesBoard.ie has published a review of workplace accidents in Ireland in 2011 that shows compensation totalling €22.5million (2010: €25.1million) was awarded in respect of 830 (2010: 889 awards) personal injury workplace claims. Accidents in the workplace accounted for 8.4% of all personal injury awards in 2011, compared to 11% of all awards in 2010. The […]
