This week the articles most read have been: Openreach fined £1.3m following death of engineer, What are the fire safety considerations for a historic site?, Company fined £30,000 for unsafe removal of asbestos, What did the 2019-2024 Parliament mean for workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing? and The prison revolutionising wellbeing for staff and prisoners.
Alun Owen. Credit: HSE.
Openreach Limited has been fined £1.34 million after an engineer died whilst trying to repair a telephone line.
Hannah Eales, Partner and Kathryn Sheridan, Senior Associate at law firm Kingsley Napley, discuss fire safety considerations for historic sites.
A company based in Kent has been fined £30,000, and its director fined £5,000, after failing to ensure the safe removal of asbestos across two separate sites.
The British Safety Council (BSC) provide their view on the current Government’s progress in health, safety and wellbeing, but also on what may need renewed focus.
A high street of shops, a therapy dog, cancer awareness training, clamping down on viruses and menopause awareness training – one governor is taking a revolutionary approach to wellbeing for both staff and prisoners at their prison.
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