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Issue 21 - 08.07.2019
- 1. HSE still fighting “blue tape”
- 2. Worker had worn ineffective face mask
- 3. HSE dust rules “daft as a brush”?
- 4. Pedestrian seriously injured during storm
- 5. Record and manage your product recall
- 6. Unattended chlorine tablets eaten by resident
- 7. Demolition disasters caught on camera
- 8. Dangerous smoke alarms being sold online
- 9. Safety is no drama in theatres
Issue 20 - 24.06.2019
- 1. Help to prevent skin cancer
- 2. Customer hurt by falling display
- 3. Royal Opera House loses hearing damage appeal
- 4. Worker threw crowbar at electrical connections
- 5. Construction Industry Training Board test updated
- 6. Better management needed to combat stress
- 7. How many fire drills are required?
- 8. Legionella British Standard updated
- 9. HSE targets construction health again
Issue 19 - 10.06.2019
- 1. Construction giants tackle safety
- 2. Fine slashed by £420,000
- 3. Do your respirators fit the bill?
- 4. Sign installer struck underground cable
- 5. Conduct a stress management review
- 6. What can you do about radon?
- 7. Violence at work 2017/18
- 8. Q&A - can agency workers be supplied PPE?
- 9. Q&A - is a skip a piece of lifting equipment?
Issue 18 - 28.05.2019
- 1. Safety fines up 450%
- 2. Worker killed by overhead power line
- 3. Your fire blanket questions answered
- 4. £1.4 million machinery blockage
- 5. Appeal over rest breaks won by employer
- 6. Man injured in shaft fall
- 7. Pallet deliveries causing a strain
- 8. Q&A - annual wiring check
- 9. Q&A - are safety notices mandatory?
Issue 17 - 14.05.2019
- 1. HSE hikes enforcement rate
- 2. Workers took their own lives at Amnesty
- 3. Are pre-qualification checks about to get slicker?
- 4. Crushed by potatoes
- 5. A current policy for first aid
- 6. Children used construction site as playground
- 7. MEWP rescue guidance
- 8. New COSHH advice sheets for woodworking
- 9. Q&A - can we relax hi-vis rules in the summer?
Issue 16 - 01.05.2019
- 1. Shift work linked to poor health
- 2. Are there gaps in your fire protection?
- 3. Poor communication led to ten-metre fall
- 4. Chemical effects caused workers to quit
- 5. Are your staff working more than they should?
- 6. Flammable cladding - what’s the latest?
- 7. Firm dodged £800,000 asbestos fine by going bust
- 8. Preventing unauthorised access to scaffolds
- 9. High visibility PPE for pregnant workers
Issue 15 - 15.04.2019
- 1. Changes to incident reporting site
- 2. Children struck by queue barriers at high street store
- 3. Suspicious package alert!
- 4. Director illegally sold hazardous substances
- 5. Review your respiratory protection needs
- 6. Do you need an emergency shower?
- 7. Waste industry carries manual handling concern
- 8. Parliament intervenes on work at height
- 9. CSCS card forgery
Issue 14 - 01.04.2019
- 1. The dangers of low-risk substances
- 2. Man lost his leg in drum cutting accident
- 3. Beating back pain can affect your bottom line
- 4. Council prosecuted for wall collapse
- 5. “Chinese export” markings: fact or fiction?
- 6. What’s happening with building regulations?
- 7. New guidance on school trip safety
- 8. Q&A - can we hand out paracetamol?
- 9. Van drivers must allow extra space
Issue 13 - 18.03.2019
- 1. Workplace kitchens failing
- 2. Compulsory electrical checks for rental homes
- 3. Working with a disability or health condition
- 4. £2.3 million fine for bus company
- 5. A client’s guide to construction
- 6. Alarm over fire safety at 57% of London’s care homes
- 7. New welding risk control measures
- 8. Beating back pain through good design
- 9. Beware the Brexit sales pitches
Issue 12 - 04.03.2019
- 1. ISO surveillance costs rise
- 2. Cleaning proves deadly
- 3. Young workers face repeated harassment
- 4. Asthma triggered by flour dust
- 5. Falling from the racking
- 6. What do you need to know about HMOs?
- 7. Making sense of water safety
- 8. Are your HGV tyres too old?
- 9. Safety alert - vehicle lifts
Issue 11 - 18.02.2019
- 1. Keeping up with the HSE
- 2. Does your fire risk assessment need yearly reviews?
- 3. Changes to road traffic laws and the MOT
- 4. Legionnaires’ disease scare at leisure centre
- 5. Self-assessment for stress
- 6. Lorry driver crushed
- 7. New guidance on food product recalls
- 8. Keep the home fires burning
- 9. Beware of the caterpillars
Issue 10 - 04.02.2019
- 1. Dusting off inspectors’ findings
- 2. Developer in jail after losing appeal case
- 3. Misusing lifts can be fatal
- 4. £1 million fine for electrician’s burns
- 5. Medicine concerns
- 6. Do you need a work at height rescue plan?
- 7. How not to manage reversing HGVs
- 8. Q&A - how often to test wiring?
- 9. Q&A - is our project notifiable to the HSE?
Issue 09 - 21.01.2019
- 1. Unnecessary safe system document
- 2. Service failures can impact safety
- 3. Basic accreditation is not enough for some
- 4. Fork lift truck operators in the frame
- 5. Working in car parks safely
- 6. Managing chronic fatigue syndrome
- 7. Regulating chemicals if there’s a no-deal Brexit
- 8. Tackling violence in the NHS
- 9. Q&A - should we update our legal register?
Issue 08 - 07.01.2019
- 1. Mental health first aid update
- 2. IKEA fined £100,000 for lost fingers
- 3. Keeping your staff warm in winter
- 4. Firm had workers dry sweeping asbestos dust
- 5. Sedentary risks underestimated
- 6. Poorly managed chemical spill led to court
- 7. What’s lurking in the till?
- 8. Q&A - must we have an ISO transition audit?
- 9. Is a maximum temperature on the way?
Issue 07 - 10.12.2018
- 1. Prevention is better than cure
- 2. Record fire fine for landlord
- 3. Diesel exhaust fume risk
- 4. Don’t assume your contractor will work safely
- 5. Prevent slips and trips on your premises
- 6. Customer fell through shopfloor hatch
- 7. Heading for a hearing loss claim?
- 8. MOT reminders
- 9. Q&A - must we provide showers?
Issue 06 - 26.11.2018
- 1. 2017/18 HSE statistics
- 2. Poor management of mental health is costly
- 3. Major overhaul of RIDDOR proposed
- 4. Resident fell through balcony
- 5. Must you provide special sight tests?
- 6. Safety boots worn out?
- 7. Developer assumed to have disturbed asbestos
- 8. Ice rinks are slippery!
- 9. Is reverse parking mandatory?
Issue 05 - 12.11.2018
- 1. Fire improvements in numbers
- 2. Do right of way users have a right to safety?
- 3. The dangers of too much oxygen
- 4. One machine caused two identical accidents
- 5. Organising your tenants
- 6. Overwhelmed by slip and trip hazards
- 7. Specialist contractor was required
- 8. Council not liable for unguarded wharf
- 9. Changes to fire safety guidance
Issue 04 - 29.10.2018
- 1. Do you need to protect visitors?
- 2. Food labelling requirements
- 3. How to improve staff wellbeing
- 4. Council fined for asbestos exposure
- 5. Preparing for winter
- 6. Child suffered chemical burns
- 7. Safe driving: from the front
- 8. Possible malpractice in the building trade
- 9. The impact of Brexit on safety laws
Issue 03 - 15.10.2018
- 1. HSE focuses on construction dust
- 2. Court of appeal slashes fine by 85%
- 3. £28 million school closed due to safety concerns
- 4. £1.5 million for yard accident
- 5. What to include in your asbestos management plan
- 6. Costly safety advice
- 7. What training is needed for fire marshals?
- 8. IOSH launches student membership
- 9. Asbestos scare for Bunsen burner users
Issue 02 - 01.10.2018
- 1. Tougher penalties for manslaughter
- 2. Employer fined after believing CV claims
- 3. Can staff smoke while driving?
- 4. Fatal mistakes made on floor cleaning job
- 5. Will more businesses pay fees for intervention?
- 6. Sick leave rates lowest on record
- 7. Resident severely scalded
- 8. Changes to workplace exposure limits
- 9. Q&A - how many toilets?
Issue 01 - 17.09.2018
- 1. Mental health sticking plaster
- 2. SSIP is taking months - can it be done quicker?
- 3. Director disqualified for six years
- 4. Accident was caused by new fork lift truck
- 5. Training staff to sit comfortably
- 6. Arson attack showed up deficiencies
- 7. Tree went in wrong direction
- 8. Jailed for ignoring fireworks licence
- 9. Q&A - must we provide allergen information?

Work at height

28 May 2019

Man injured in shaft fall

A worker suffered life changing injuries when he fell in to a ventilation shaft while carrying out grounds maintenance work. What were the circumstances behind the accident and what should have been done differently?

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