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• Farm owner fined after overlooking legal requirements
  The owner of a Bedfordshire farm has been prosecuted for failing to complete legally required documentation in relation to safe working near overhead power cables.
  
  
• Waste company prosecuted after worker loses arm
  A waste management and recycling company has been fined for safety failings after a worker lost most of his arm on an unguarded conveyor system at a Kent quarry.
  
  
• Printing industry safety topics – Fire and explosion
  Printing involves flammable materials which create significant fire and explosion risks. This guidance identifies some printing specific risks, outlines what you need to do and where you can find out more information.
  
  
• RR925 – Healthy Design, Creative Safety: Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in undergraduate schools of architecture
  This report presents the results of a research project into the teaching of health and safety in undergraduate schools of Architecture in the UK. Previous studies into ‘identification and management of risk in undergraduate construction courses’ highlighted the need for schools of architecture to have a more consistent and integrated approach to the teaching of [...]
  
  
• HSE Chair’s speech at the launch of Phase 2 of the Foundry Industry’s SHIFT Initiative – 20 March 2012
  ‘The value to HSE of Joint Working with Industry’ – HSE Chair Judith Hackitt’s speech at event to launch the next stage of the molten metals industries Safety and Health Foundry Targets Initiative – known as SHIFT, at the National Metal forming Centre, Birmingham on 20 March 2012.
  
  
• WAIT Toolkit – Helping you select the right equipment
  If you don’t work at height very often or are unsure about which type of access equipment to use, it is important that you assess the risks and select the right equipment for the job. WAIT – Work at height Access equipment Information Toolkit – provides you with some possible solutions.
  
  
• Grimsby firm fined after worker’s warehouse death
  A Grimsby haulage company has been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was killed when a row of steel coils ‘collapsed like dominos’ trapping him under their five-tonne weight.
  
  
• RR919 – Human factors that lead to non-compliance with standard operating procedures
  This report presents results from the Health and Safety Laboratory’s study on the Human Factors that lead to non-compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratories.
  
  
• Fines for ‘unsafe’ Croydon construction company
  A Croydon-based construction company has been fined for continuing unsafe working practices at a site in Lewisham despite repeated warnings.
  
  
• Builder fined £15,000 after carbon monoxide death (COPFS release)
  At Haddington Sheriff Court today, John Martin Riva (DOB 21/07/62) was fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to a contravention of Sections 3 and 33 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  
  
• Adhesive firm fined after worker loses part of thumb
  An adhesive tape manufacturer has been prosecuted after a 19-year-old agency worker severed his thumb in machinery at a factory in Wellingborough.
  
  
• ONR vacancy: Project Planner
  Job vacancy details are now available for the post within the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), based in Bootle, Merseyside (Cheltenham may be considered as a location) – as Project Planner.