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Published on Monday, August 10th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Global Energy Firm fined £1.4m after worker killed in refinery fire Date: 29 July 2015 Total UK Limited have been fined £1.4 million after a major fire led to the death of a worker at an oil refinery in North Lincolnshire. Twenty-four year old Robert Greenacre from Grimsby was working near…

Scaffolding Unsafe Operation

Published on Monday, July 27th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Extendable Scaffolding Loading Bay Gate – use of cable ties to secure loose mesh and unsafe means of operation Health and Safety Executive – Safety Alert Department Name: Construction Sector Bulletin No: FOD 2-2015 Issue Date: 21 July 2014 Target Audience: Construction industry; scaffolding companies; scaffolding suppliers; scaffolding manufacturers Key…

HSE Fatality Statistics

Published on Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Fatal injury statistics Summary for 2014/15 The information in this document relates to the latest ‘full-year’ statistics on fatal injuries in the workplace, for 2014/15. The provisional figure for the number of workers fatally injured in 2014/15 is 142, and corresponds to a rate of fatal injury of 0.46 deaths…

Close Shave

Published on Friday, July 17th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Close Shave Video Please click on the link above and take the time to watch this short video clip it could save you from harm. This happened recently on a petrol forecourt in London. The engineer was lucky to escape unharmed. As part of the training received on the…

Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Staffordshire Company sentenced over cooker death Date: 29 June 2015 A Staffordshire animal rendering and food waste recycling company has been fined £660,000 after a worker died as he tried to fix an industrial cooker. Self-employed contractor Mark Bullock, 50, of Milton, Stoke on Trent, was carrying out repairs inside…

Death of young worker

Published on Monday, June 22nd, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Death of young worker leads to court for recycling company Date: 12 June 2015 A recycling company in South Devon has been sentenced for serious safety breaches after a worker was killed after likely being thrown from a six-tonne dumper truck. Ben Sewell, 30, from Dartmouth, was found lying on…

The Petrol Retail Safety Passport

Published on Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

The Petrol Retail Safety Passport ensures that contractors working on petrol retail forecourts understand the risks involved. The scheme is managed by the Safety Pass Alliance (SPA) and overseen by the by the Petrol Retail National Steering Group (PRNSG) whose members include contractors, trade associations, Cogent, forecourt operators organisations such…

Alton Towers The Smiler Rollercoaster

Published on Friday, June 5th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

Health and Safety Executive statement – update on investigation into incident at Alton Towers Date: 5 June 2015 HSE will today remove the carriages involved in the incident on ‘The Smiler’ rollercoaster on 2 June and transport them to the Health and Safety Laboratory in Buxton for further analysis. The…

SPA MPQC Refresher Course Update

Published on Monday, June 1st, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

REFRESHER COURSE UPDATE 2 Training Providers and Trainer Workshop Full Agenda with presentations by Trainers. Come along to hear about the new interactive course & lots more. VENUES Scotland ,East Midlands & South Midlands We can now confirm the dates and locations for the Refresher Day Familiarisation Workshop which are as…

SPA MPQC NEW REFRESHER COURSE

Published on Friday, May 29th, 2015 by Shirley Cullen

The new Refresher Course will be introduced on 1 September 2015 and all trainers who wish to run this course must attend a familiarisation day for the new course prior to running the course. Refresher Day Familiarisation courses will be run in the South Midlands area on Tuesday 21…

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