Please find below the news stories from the most recent 'Workplace Compliance News'.
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An attack has been launched by the Prime Minister David Cameron on the “stranglehold” of health and safety bureaucracy on UK employers, but claims by unions say that he is “out of touch with reality”. While speaking to an audience…
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Suffolk County Council has been fines a total of £48,000 plus £43,772 costs for six failures to meet safety legislation, including: A £14,000 fine for breaching S.3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, where a 9-year…
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An independent panel has now been set up that allows businesses that believe they have received erroneous or over-the-top advice from the HSE or Local Authority (LA) inspectors. Plans for this independent body were announced by the Government in November…
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Two companies, an umbrella supplier from Sheffield and a group of holiday cottages in Yorkshire, are the first to take advantage of the new Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). After installing low-carbon heat-generating equipment, the companies will receive payments for each…
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During November 2007, an employee at chocolate chain Thorntons broke her finger while working at a foil-wrapping machine at its premises in Somercotes, Derbyshire. Thorntons PLC were found guilty of breaching regulation 11(1) of the Provision and Use of Work…
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