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THE Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a consultation document (CD229) setting out proposals to amend its publication ‘Quarries Regulations 1999 Approved Code of Practice’.
THE Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has this week launched a new phase of its hard-hitting campaign on slip, trip and fall incidents in the workplace.
THE number of people killed in the waste and recycling sector is more than nine times the national average, and four times more workers suffer injury than in any other industry, according to the...
TARMAC have been fined £10,000 after a teenage trespasser was seriously injured at Cornelly Quarry, near Bridgend, in May 2008.
IN a further move to promote the elimination of accidents within the quarrying industry, the Health and Safety Executive will be launching the latest phase of the ‘Target Zero’ initiative on the...
CARLTON Main Brickworks Ltd have been fined £25,000 after being convicted of failing to provide and maintain a suitable barrier around the boundary of a quarry where a 13-year old schoolgirl died...
AS part of the recent launch of ‘Be Part of the Solution’ – the HSE’s new strategy for improving workplace health and safety in Great Britain – a health and safety Pledge was created.
NEW, easy-to-use guidance is now available for businesses on how to deal with a hazardous substances in the workplace.
A NEW team of HSE inspectors has been set up to crack down on death, injury and ill health in quarries and opencast coal mines across the UK.
THIS week saw the launch of ‘Be Part of the Solution' - the Health and Safety Executive's new strategy which aims to reduce the number of workplace accidents and take a common sense approach to...
MOVES to make the UK’s health and safety laws easier to understand and comply with came into effect earlier this week as part of an ongoing drive by the Health and Safety Executive to reduce...
LAST week saw the re-launch of a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign warning about the dangers of falls from vehicles.
THE Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a three-month consultation on its new strategy: ‘The Health and Safety System of Great Britain\\Be Part of the Solution’.
THE Health and Safety Executive has launched new guidance for involving employees in the management of workplace health and safety.
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Interview with Colin Mew, Principal Inspector of the Quarries National Inspection Team