HSE ebulletin Date issued: 29 May 2024 Clients, contractors and other stakeholders need to thoroughly plan, manage, and monitor all demolition work. Incidents of buildings collapsing into roads or because the work has rendered the structure unstable during demolition works have resulted in emergency road closures. This has necessitated interventions by authorities to deal with dangerous …
Fifty victims of a fire in south-west London in 2019 have this month issued a High Court claim against Metropolitan Thames Valley (MTVH) housing association and house builder St James. Law firm Bindmans said the claimants, consisting of shared owners, leaseholders and their families, are seeking damages for their injuries, lost possessions and the discomfort …
Farming partnership fined as worker crushed by hay bales 15 May 2024 The company was fined over £40,000 for failing to store the hay bales in a safe manner. Waste management company fined after worker suffers burns to body and face 10 May 2024 The worker struck a live electrical cable with a crowbar whilst …
PRESS RELEASE – 17 May 2024 Consumers at higher risk when buying telescopic ladders from online platforms Latest research commissioned by the Ladder Association has highlighted the increased risk of accidents for consumers who buy telescopic ladders from online platforms as opposed to physical stores. The market research study, funded by the Office for Product Safety …
HSE safety notice Date issued: 8 May 2024 HSE has issued a safety notice for: Windfarm clients, operators and Principle Contractors Offshore Installation duty holders Vessel owners and operators that use or operate a motion compensated gangway Risk of serious injury from motion compensated gangways Incidents involving motion compensated gangways (MCG) within the UK …
Service lifts in offshore and onshore wind turbines HSE has identified that an absence of defined industry standards for the safe design of service lifts within wind turbines has resulted in discrepancies in the application of required safeguards by designers and manufacturers. This is a potential risk to users. Hazards from the design, guarding, and …
Manufacture, storage and carriage of thermites and thermite containing articles HSE has identified that thermites, and thermite containing articles, meeting the criteria for being classified for transport in Great Britain and the ADR area as Class 1 dangerous goods (as explosive substances and articles) are currently being transported either as non-dangerous goods or as Class …
Guidance update on controlling legionella bacteria in evaporative cooling systems Our technical guidance publication ‘The control of legionella bacteria in evaporative cooling systems’ (HSG274: Part 1), has been updated. The guidance for managing the legionella risk presented by evaporative cooling systems has been improved in several areas. These changes include: further information on DPD No …
Some Stoneridge SE5000 transitional smart 2 tachograph devices are wrongly displaying and recording an error message. ‘Hardware sabotage’ will be displayed on the screen and an event will be recorded in the tachograph. Impact on tachograph devices We have received assurances from Stoneridge that this error does not affect the working of the tachograph. It …
A rental housing operator has been ordered to pay £18 million towards building safety works at the former Olympic Village due to flammable-style cladding. Serious fire safety defects were first discovered at five blocks at the site, now known as the East Village, in Stratford in November 2020, court documents show. Homeowners have been plunged into a “state of terrible uncertainty” since, …
