On 11 December 2005, vapour from thousands of gallons of petrol ignited causing an explosion measuring 2.4 on the Richter Scale. It was Britain’s most costly industrial disaster, destroying nearby businesses and leaving 43 people injured.
News from HSE
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- December
- 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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