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New Year – New HSE Appeal

HSE Puts Safety First

HSE have started off the New Year by making a fresh appeal to reduce the number of deaths and accidents in the workplace. The new HSE appeal has been released to mark the HSE’s 40th anniversary. They hope to reiterate the importance of workplace safety and encourage employees across England and Scotland to make the wellbeing of the employee the priority this year. What difference have the HSE made? Since the HSE were established in January 1975 they have made an enormous impact on workplaces across the UK, enforcing the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974). This act is… Read more

HSE: Firm sentenced after Forklift Incident

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HSE has released information about a Scottish firm which has been fined for safety failings after an employee was seriously injured by a forklift. The incident occurred when the driver of the forklift truck reversed and then moved forward, which resulted in a collision with the employee concerned who was walking backwards at the time. The HSE investigation into the incident found that they had failed to ‘provide sufficient segregation between pedestrians and vehicles’ and that they had also failed to provide ‘sufficient instruction to control vehicle movements in the area while pedestrian were working’. The dangers of warehouse vehicles… Read more

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