A wheelchair-user could easily have lost his life in front of hundreds of delegates to the Labour conference, after the party ignored years of safety warnings about the ramp used to access the ...

It is that time of year again when the HSE publish their annual statistics on workplace fatalities and employee illness – a useful tool in tracking the trends in workforce health and workplace safety ...

This Safety Guideline describes how we manage, report and investigate accidents. An accident is any unplanned event or circumstance that results in injury or ill-health. For the purposes of this ...

In the next in our series on complex asthma presentations, consultant in respiratory medicine Dr Jennifer Hoyle explains how GPs can help diagnose occupational asthma and provide ongoing care and ...

RIDDOR regulations place a positive duty on employers and persons in control of work premises to report specific workplace health and safety incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). On the ...

A worker died on September 8 after falling 30 feet into an empty silo at his place of work, Dugdale Nutrition, in the Speke area of Liverpool. Merseyside Police, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service ...

Work on a major link road designed to connect two major motorways has used up 2,000,000 hours of man power so far. National Highways has issued an update on the project, which is one of the most ...

A Nottingham family fear their home may have exploded due to an extensive gas leak and errors made in installing a new boiler at their council house. Nottingham City Council chiefs said an internal ...

Accidents happen. No matter how safe a workplace seems, something can go wrong. That’s where first aiders come in. They’re not just there to stop the bleeding or help someone breathe. They’re also key ...