The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to carry out more than 500 unannounced site inspections after an “unacceptable number of fatal and serious injuries” in the waste and recycling sector. The regulator’s programme will cover the whole of Great Britain from now until March 2023. It will target: (1) machinery guarding and (2) moving vehicles, […]
The SWITCH Forum recently hosted an online seminar kindly supported by Helios Fire Systems. Fire can have devastating consequences at any site. There is the danger to human life, the loss of plant and equipment, impact on environment with pollution to land, water and air and then the ongoing problems of increased insurance costs, the […]
A hundred and twenty-three workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in the last year, according to figures published on the 6th of July by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The annual data release covers the period from April 2021 to March 2022, during which time most pandemic restrictions were lifted and […]