The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (Tuesday 7 April) launched a public consultation on The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR).

A Staffordshire-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after a worker sustained serious injuries when he fell through a stairwell opening during the construction of an ...

HSE inspectors can visit premises without warning. Where management is found to be lacking, enforcement action is taken to require that appropriate asbestos risk management measures are put in place.

Bassetlaw District Council has been fined £50,000 after an employee was seriously injured when a ride-on lawnmower overturned HSE found the council had failed to carry out a suitable risk assessment ...

A Rotherham-based metal fabrication company has been sentenced after pleading guilty to health and safety failings that led to a young apprentice being injured by dangerous parts of a metal cutting ...

Paul Coulson was crushed by a three-tonne pallet after another worker operated a conveyor not knowing he was inside. Dangerous working practices had previously been captured on CCTV. Company only made ...

Two workers lost fingers in different pieces of machinery. One of them, a grandmother, had worked at the firm for 28 years. A company in Leeds that produces plastic products has been fined after two ...

19-year-old labourer died after falling six floors from a ventilation shaft HSE investigation found that the ventilation shaft had been covered only by a sheet of plasterboard and roofing foam Jerram ...