30 October HSE seeks views on changes to First Aid regulations Plans to remove the requirement for first aid training providers to be approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have gone out to consultation. The proposal to amend the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations (1981) was made in the independent Löfstedt report into health and safety, and accepted by the Government. The HSE is … Read More
1 October HSE cost recovery scheme starts today The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) new cost recovery scheme — Fee for Intervention (FFI) — comes into force today (1st October 2012) in England, Scotland and Wales. Under the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012, those who break health and safety laws are liable for recovery of HSE’s related costs, including inspection, investigation and … Read More
9 July HSE publishes 2011/12 fatal injury statistics The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have published official statistics published which shows that the number of workers fatally injured in Britain last year remains largely unchanged. The provisional data has been released for April 2011 to March 2012, which shows 173 workers were killed – down 2 from the previous year. The rate of … Read More
2 July HSE confirms start date for cost recovery scheme The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that its cost recovery scheme, called the “Fee for Intervention” (FFI), will start on 1 October 2012 subject to Parliamentary approval. The HSE has published some new details guidance setting out how the scheme will work in practice on its website, you can view this here. Developed … Read More
18 June Scottish Legionnaires Outbreak A third place in Edinburgh has been given an improvement notice to clean up their act in relation to the Legionnaires outbreak. The notice, served under health and safety law, relates to staff training, not the operation of cooling towers. A second person has died from the disease. He was in his 40s with underlying … Read More
11 June Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 Are you aware that these new regulations came into force on 05 April 2012? If not, here are some of the details. The actual changes arising from the new Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 are fairly limited. They mean that some types of non-licensed work with asbestos now have additional requirements, i.e. notification of work, … Read More
17 April HSE reporting change reduces paperwork for British firms A change to the rules on reporting workplace injuries will save British firms thousands of hours completing official paperwork. Employers now no longer have to report injuries which keep workers off normal duties for seven or fewer days. The change to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 should see a … Read More
15 March HSE delays cost recovery scheme The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced today that its cost recovery scheme, ‘Fee for Intervention’, is going ahead but will now not start in April 2012. The scheme is to recover costs from those who break health and safety laws for the time and effort the HSE spends on helping to put matters right … Read More
14 March Landmark fire case put in front of a jury The Fire & Rescue Service (FRS) has been pretty quiet recently – especially when compared to the Health & Safety Executive. A recent high profile case has changed this, however. What happened? Until the conclusion of this case, all previous convictions had been secured either in a Magistrates’ Court or by an individual judge. However, … Read More
14 December Are you driving? You shouldn’t be reading this then… There’s a story from across the ‘pond’ today, in America the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is the agency for investigating major accidents, has called for a complete ban on calling and texting whilst driving, even when using a handsfree device. The article cites the fact that more than 3,000 people died last year … Read More