08 Mar 2022
Recycling and the PRN System The momentum behind the sustainability movement has drastically increased the obligations placed on UK companies to recycle waste plastic. Resultantly it is anticipated that by 2030 UK companies will be expected to recycle 70% of waste plastic material. While…
Regulatory
01 Mar 2022
The Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will close on 17 March 2022. Essentially, employers will no longer be able to claim back Statutory Sick Pay for any of their employees' covid-related absences or subsequent isolation that occur post this date. Employers have until 24 March 2022 to submit any…
Regulatory
28 Feb 2022
With school trips re-commencing both for days out and for weekends away, it is important that schools carefully consider the guidance provided by the Health and Safety Executive before ascending up mountains or embarking upon open swimming or water sports activities. There are two types of visits…
Regulatory
01 Jul 2021
A plumbing supply company and its building contractor have been fined after unsafe construction work took place at the company premises in Burnley. Burnley Magistrates' Court heard that on 21 October 2018, Northwest Plumbing Supplier Limited and contractor Daniel Georghiou, carried out…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A pub landlord has been handed a nine-year prison sentence for gross negligence manslaughter after a child was electrocuted in a beer garden. Harvey Tyrell, 7, died from an electric shock after he touched a defective lighting fixture at the King Harold pub in Romford, Essex, on 11 September 2018…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A manufacturing company has been fined after an apprentice's hand was caught in machinery. A 17-year-old apprentice, who had been working at Amber Industries Limited in Oldham for 18 months, was reaming workpieces using an unguarded pillar drill whilst wearing gloves. The glove on his right…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
Failing to adhere to health and safety standards can be a very costly mistake to make, as the owners of the Britannia Hotel in Southport recently found out. The hotel chain was fined £80,000 after a guest sustained life-changing injuries when she fell through rusty iron railings to a…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
What is needed to enable a defendant to successfully say that they relied on a dynamic risk assessment rather than to have specifically risk assessed every task? This question arose in two cases over the last 6 months that help identify the issues that need to be considered. The first is the…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A Lancashire based manufacturer of plastic-coated fabrics has been fined after an employee's hand was drawn into an unguarded part of a machine, resulting in the surgical amputation of three fingers. Manchester Magistrates' Court heard that on 20 August 2019, a machine operator at the Earby…
Regulatory
26 Apr 2021
Two recent decisions have highlighted the heavy levels of fines that the courts will impose for fatalities arising out of breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. In one case Peter Coleman (54) died after becoming trapped underneath a refuse collection vehicle in 2014. The court heard…
Regulatory
