Sheffield City Council instigated a full audit and review of all council ladders and stepladders and developed a management system to monitor and assess the risks that working at height posed to their workers.
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- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Essex
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Northamptonshire
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in County Durham
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in the North East
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Gloucestershire
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Suffolk
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Dumfries and Galloway
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Tyneside
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Norfolk
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Cambridgeshire
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Central Scotland
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Sunderland
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Devon
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Edinburgh and the Lothians
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Northumberland
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury across Yorkshire and the Humber
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in London
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in Wales
- Wells Team organisation chart updated
- New year, renewed call to reduce workplace death and injury in the West Midlands
- New printing guidance on handfed platens
- Updated list of companies liable for General Industry Charge (GIC)
- HSE Nuclear Directorate’s Emergency planning team
- Cement information sheet – available in Gujarati
- Occupational exposure in polyurethane manufacture
- Construction Infonet December 2010
- Disposing of radioactive waste underground
- Safe maintenance video
- Nuclear Safety – “Building on our past to face the future”
- Bradford takeaway owner fined
- Protect your skin video
- Nuclear website – improved
- Health risks associated with the mechanical laying of straw bedding in cattle sheds
- Company fined after death of worker at hydroelectric plant
- Severe weather and postponement of sporting events
- Genetically Modified Organisms Regulations 2010
- Training failures led to patient death
- Polish worker dies in ladder fall
- Glossop manufacturer fined over worker’s death
- Winter near miss acts as warning to farmers
- Offshore External Corrosion Management Inspection Project report
- Update: HSE Infoline and the Incident Contact Centre (ICC) are operating a reduced service due to adverse weather conditions
- Bakery ingredients and exposure to allergens
- Don’t neglect the detail when looking to prevent major incidents, HSE warns offshore industry
- Builder fined after unsafe work on hospital
- Safety notice – Waterlogic water dispensers
- Human factors at play during a large gasoline spillage
- Health and Safety after the Young Review
- Unsafe roofwork led to fatal fall
- Worker died on first day at work
- Healthy Design, Creative Safety Symposium, Sheffield – 27 January 2011
- RR829: Current control standards for tasks with high exposure to grain dust
- Sawmill fined after worker’s leg injured
- Pharmaceutical workers exposed to hazardous substance
- Health and Safety Board Agenda 15 December 2010
- Worker breaks back in fall after electric shock
- Plumbers sentenced for carrying out illegal gas work
- Worker’s fingers crushed in bakery rolling machine
- Surrey businessman ignored health and safety warnings
- Consultation opens in January on RIDDOR changes
- Health and Safety Reform 2011 – A Common Sense Approach – 13 April 2011
- Worker Involvement Group Aberdeen 30 November – Information update
- BT sentenced following fatal ladder fall
- Webtool for shops takes worry out of risk assessment
- Risk management – Example risk assessments
- Food and drink manufacturing injury statistics
- Fencing firm ignored safety notices
- Print firm fined after worker hurt in lorry incident
- Firm fined after roofer breaks back
- Diving Specialist Inspector vacancy – Offshore Safety Division
- HSE Chair’s speech at the Human and Organisational Factors in the Oil and Gas Industries Conference
- £440,000 fine after worker dies crushing aerosol canisters
- Company fined after man crushed by truck
- Excavator firm fined after worker’s fingers severed
- Companies and manager fined £440,000 after worker dies crushing aerosol canisters
- Scottish power fined after electricity cable death
- Council fined after sculpture falls onto boy’s foot
- Builder prosecuted for ignoring health and safety rules
- Worker’s lives put in danger at Manchester Karaoke bar
- Kent-wide inspection campaign highlights safety concerns in motor vehicle repair premises
- Bury firm sentenced after woman’s fingers severed
- Warning on deadly wood dust cancer
- Minutes of the HSE CONIAC meeting – 21 July 2010
- Buncefield explosion – five years on
- Workers’ lives put in danger at Manchester karaoke bar
- Safe use of ladders and stepladders – leaflet translations
- Cross government group on gas safety
- Integrity of pipework systems
- Worker’s arm injured by two tonne metal plate
- Have your say – revised music and events guide
- Local Authority uses WAIT to manage access
- Free chemicals notification webinar
- Company fined for radiation exposure risk
- Disability… did you know?
- Treework newsletter
- New farmers’ stories – William Russell
- Myth of the month – Health and safety has gone mad!
- Plumber sentenced for carrying out illegal gas work
- HSE responds to Herald Express letter
- Two workers exposed to asbestos at Aston University
- Worker paralysed after being crushed by reel of paper
- HSE rubbishes Daily Mirror claims of asbestos report cover up
- Agricultural industry shows – update
- Dignity at work statement
- Deepwater Horizon and the impact on UK oil and gas activity – London 9 December
- Tree Work – Rigging Research
- Safety notice: Gas boilers – flues in voids
- The Safety In Manufacturing Plastics (SIMPL) Initiative
- OIAC minutes and agendas added
- Maintenance firm fined after Heathrow incident
- Laminate flooring firm sentenced over worker’s injuries
- Worcestershire care home fined after investigation into fatal fall from window
- OIAC – membership list update
- Export and Import of dangerous chemicals – New export notification duplication facility in EDEXIM
- Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico
- Demolition firm fined after teenager blinded in one eye
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