Tuesday, 30 July 2013

2 separate accidents on the same machine

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A cable manufacturer has been fined after two employees were injured in two separate incidents on the same machine at its factory in Leigh. ...

ISO 14001 the most popular ISO standard for certification

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ISO 14001 is the standard which showed the greatest number of certifications. This is true both worldwide and in the UK.  For 2011, which is...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Mixing FSC and PEFC papers

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Given the antagonism between these two approaches, it is better to avoid mixing them in a single product. However, there is nothing in eithe...
Friday, 26 July 2013

What you should have in your health and safety system

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Most of the systems I see fall into 2 categories: Lacking in any useful information Comprising too much information, masking that which is r...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Not a good idea to write a risk assessment after the task has been carried out

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Hot-oil burns occurred whilst jet washing a large oil storage tank at PAS (Grantham) Ltd., who manufacture frozen potato products. The circu...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Man entangled in unguarded drill

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A Shropshire steel engineering company has been fined after a worker got the sleeve of his overalls caught in an unguarded drill bit, causin...

Company fined £175,000 after man was crushed by falling machinery.

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Special Metals Wiggin Ltd. of Hereford has been fined after an employee suffered life-threatening injuries when he was crushed and burned by...