Leading Merseyside construction safety firm, Innov8 Safety Solutions, is announcing two new appointments to strengthen its team. Innov8 Safety Solutions managing director, Alan Robson, said he is delighted to announce the appointment of Karl Tindale as the firm’s new technical director and Karen Steele as PA and office manager. “Both Karl and Karen bring a [...]

An Aberdeenshire roofing boss has been fined after one of his workers was seriously injured when he fell five metres from the edge of a flat roof. Alister McNeilly, 26, worked for Brian George Mackie, who traded as roofing contractor Donside Slating. Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that on 10 November 2010, Mr McNeilly was working [...]

Small businesses are still citing lack of good-quality, accessible guidance and information as a major reason why they don’t do more to improve their health and safety management, a new survey from IOSH has found. Despite the considerable efforts made by the HSE, IOSH and others to engage and help small businesses by providing tailored [...]

The HSE has issued revised guidance on electrical equipment checks and is urging businesses not to be fooled into paying for testing that is not required. Unnecessary electrical safety tests cost office-based businesses an estimated £30 million a year, but it’s a myth that every portable electrical appliance in the workplace needs to be tested [...]

The economic downturn has chipped away at the confidence of some contractors, designers and CDM coordinators, who are now less prepared to challenge clients over project demands than they might have been when the economy was in good shape. This is one of the key findings from a major evaluation of the Construction (Design and [...]

Safe maintenance will be the focus of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, which this year will be marked from 24 to 28 October with a series of awareness-raising events, including workshops, seminars and exhibitions. The week is part of the Healthy Workplaces campaign, organised by the European Agency for Safety and [...]

Liverpool in London members have won hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of business as result of using Liverpool’s dedicated presence in the capital. Tender Management Consultancy Ltd (TMC), PR agency Paver Smith and Curiosity Research have reported contracts in excess of £400,000 since joining Liverpool in London. TMC, which was given a Liverpool Vision [...]

A demolition firm has been sentenced after knocking down a building in the Lake District containing hundreds of asbestos ceiling tiles, putting the lives of workers and local residents at risk. IBT Contracting Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after carrying out the work at a former photography factory in Staveley [...]

The two-year review, by academics from the University of Nottingham, will explore whether or not reducing regulation will, as the Government has argued, help businesses to prosper and whether or not it can be done without harming the health and safety of employees. Since coming to office in 2010, the coalition Government commissioned Lord Young [...]

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 will come into force on 6 April 2012, updating previous asbestos regulations to take account of the European Commission’s view that the UK had not fully implemented the EU Directive on exposure to asbestos (Directive 2009/148/EC). In practice, the changes are fairly limited and mean that some types of [...]