Occupational Health to be the Focus of UK Conference
With approximately 1.2 million workers in the United Kingdom thought to be suffering from a work-related illness in 2013-14, it’s perhaps no surprise that occupational health will be the main focus when the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) holds its 40th annual National Safety Symposium (NSS) later this year. Working alongside with, health […]
IOSH Course Helping Employers Make UK Workplace Safer
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has developed a training programme, which provides business leaders with the knowledge they require to appropriately manage health and safety within their respective enterprises. Crucially, the training package is specifically designed for business leader who have limited spare time on their hands. Commenting on the course, which […]
Edinburgh Firm Fined For Failure to Protect Worker
A local pharmaceutical firm has appeared in Edinburgh Sheriff Court where it pleaded guilty to safety failings after an employee was exposed to hazardous substances. The court heard that between April 2004 and January 2010, the company, which manufactures basic pharmaceutical products, failed to review and ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employee, […]
Scottish Firm in Court over Worker’s Injury
An Aberdeenshire firm has appeared in Banff Sheriff Court where it was fined for serious safety failings after a worker was injured when his gloved hand was pulled into a metalworking lathe. Mariusz Toporek was employed by the firm in its precision engineering department and was working on a lathe when the incident happened in […]
Lothian Health Board Fined Over Death of Pensioner
Lothian Health Board has been fined £40,000 following the death of a pensioner after she was struck by one of its vans as she crossed a clearly marked pedestrian route into Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital. Seventy-seven-year-old Ellen Cornwall was on her way to visit her husband in the hospital when she was struck by the […]
Edinburgh Firm Fined for Worker’s Injury
A firm based at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh has appeared in court where it was fined for safety failings that led to a worker losing his sight in one eye. Declan Shipcott was helping two colleagues clear a blockage on a baler machine, which had a wire tie mechanism to bind bales of waste material. They […]
Top Cyclists Want Presumed Liability Law
Two top cyclists, Silas Goldsworthy and Martin Williamson, have given their support to the Road Share campaign – which calls for presumed liability to be introduced in Scotland’s civil law to better protect cyclists involved in road accidents. If presumed liability was to be introduced in Scottish civil law, a hierarchy of responsibility would be […]
Aberdeen Firm Sentenced for Worker’s Fall
An engineering services company has been fined for safety failings after a worker was injured when he fell from the trailer bed of a lorry at its premises in Aberdeen. The 61-year-old worked as a storeman and driver for the firm and had just secured a load in the back of the lorry using ratchet […]
