Firm fined £25,000 after worker fell to death

October 23, 2007

RTAL Ltd of Purley, Surrey - which manufactures items such as handrails and security fencing - has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay £5,000 costs after a man fell to his death because a protective guard rail had been removed. Andrew ... Read more & comment

Council fined over cherry picker accident

October 18, 2007

East Riding Council is facing a bill of more than £10,000 after pleading guilty to failing to ensure the safety of an employee at work. A cherry picker fell on a council worker, 51 year old Elena Tradewell, with the force of a 28-stone hammer ... Read more & comment

Safety warning - fixed rail vertical fall arrest system

October 17, 2007

The HSE advises against using the HACA fixed rail vertical fall arrest system type 0529.7102 which has recently failed the BS test that represents the appropriate standard for this type of equipment. The device is typically used when climbing ladders... Read more & comment

Prison sentence expected for skylight manslaughter

October 12, 2007

A supervisor has been told that prison is inevitable when he appears for sentencing for manslaughter on 29 November. Paul Alker, 34, died in June, after falling through a skylight at a Wrexham store. Steven Smith, 36, from Rhostyllen, near Wrexham, ... Read more & comment

Newsletter - October 2007

October 5, 2007

The October 2007 edition of the Ai Solutions Newsletter is now available: October Newsletter.... Read more & comment

HSE looks to industry

October 1, 2007

Provisional figures from the HSE report that 241 workers were fatally injured in 2006/07, corresponding to a rate of 0.80 fatal injuries per 100 000 workers. The final figures for 2005/06 were 217 and 0.72 respectively, the lowest on record.... Read more & comment

Construction company fined £43,000

October 1, 2007

Salisbury construction company Castleway Developments has been ordered to pay £43,715 in fines and costs after one of its employees died in an accident on a building site in the city in 2003.... Read more & comment

HSE investigates two fatalities from falling bricks

October 1, 2007

A 20 year old man was killed on 14 September on a construction site in Plymouth, just one day after a similar accident took the life of an 18-year-old in Scotland.... Read more & comment

One third of refurbishment sites dangerous

October 1, 2007

"Nearly 1 in 3 construction refurbishment sites inspected put the lives of workers at risk", said Stephen Williams, HSE Head of Construction after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carried out over 1500 inspections and took enforcement action on 426 occasions in just two months of its rolling inspection programme.... Read more & comment