This month HSE has published its annual figures for workplace deaths for the year to March 2019 [Read More...]

The message from the Court of Appeal is loud and clear – the new climate of high fines for health and safety and environmental offences is here to stay. [Read More...]

Many employers fail to effectively manage driving risk on a day-to-day basis, despite being compliant with work-related road safety legislation. [Read More...]

Valero Energy UK Ltd has been fined £5 million and ordered to pay £1 million costs in relation to an explosion that happened at its Pembrokeshire oil refinery [Read More...]

HSE recently published its Business Plan for 2019/20. In this plan HSE announced that its construction sector inspections will focus on duty holders providing Principal Designer (PD) services. [Read More...]

Since 1 February 2016 sentencing for food safety and hygiene offences has been subject to the Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene Offences: Definitive Guideline. In April 2019 the Sentencing Council published its impact assessment for the Guideline. [Read More...]

Tuesday 2nd July 2019, DoubleTree by Hilton, MK Dons Stadium, Milton Keynes : EXECUTIVE EXPOSURE – DIRECTORS IN THE DOCK [Read More...]

From the 1st January 2019 an amendment to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) (No 2) regulations implements the “open scope” principle which brings all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) into the scope of the U+EU directive unless exempt or excluded and retain the current UK WEEE product categories [Read More...]