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Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week Warning To Rogue Gas Fitters, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rogue gas fitters are being warned that they will be taken to task over shoddy jobs that risk lives. The Health and Safety Executive is using Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week (16-20 November) to renew its commitment to bring them to justice. According to provisional figures, HSE successfully prosecuted 28 people for breaching gas legislation in 2008/09, covering 66 separate offences. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week Warning To Rogue Gas Fitters, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rogue gas fitters are being warned that they will be taken to task over shoddy jobs that risk lives. The Health and Safety Executive is using Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week (16-20 November) to renew its commitment to bring them to justice. According to provisional figures, HSE successfully prosecuted 28 people for breaching gas legislation in 2008/09, covering 66 separate offences. 173 enforcement notices were also served during this period. (see notes). (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)
Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Safer Movement Of Heavy Goods - HSE Drive To Lift Standards In North East And Highlands, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspectors will be carrying out a series of inspections at harbours, marine bases and pipe yard sites throughout the North East and Highlands of Scotland targeting work involving the lifting and movement of heavy goods. The aim of is to raise awareness, promote sensible management and improve standards at the locations visited in the coming week. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Safer Movement Of Heavy Goods - HSE Drive To Lift Standards In North East And Highlands, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspectors will be carrying out a series of inspections at harbours, marine bases and pipe yard sites throughout the North East and Highlands of Scotland targeting work involving the lifting and movement of heavy goods. The aim of is to raise awareness, promote sensible management and improve standards at the locations visited in the coming week. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)
Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - November 15, 2009 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Firms To Better Protect Employees Who Work At Height, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has delivered a stark warning to companies who fail to protect employees working at height - they will be held to account. The warning follows a hearing this week at Nottingham Magistrates' Court when Pontiac Coil Europe Ltd, of Queens Drive Industrial Estate in Nottingham pleaded guilty to/was found guilty of a breach of Regulation 6(3) and 4(1) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)
Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - November 15, 2009 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Fife Farmers Urged To Sign Up For Safety Event, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Farmers from across Fife are being encouraged to attend an event that will arm them with the advice they need to make their farms safe places to work and help reduce accidents. The Health and Safety Executive is running a free Agriculture Safety and Health Awareness Day (SHAD) next week (19 November) as a way for those working on farms get practical advice from LANTRA instructors with an industry background. (Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today)
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news

Pressure On To Tackle Stress As Business Loses Out, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is supporting National Stress Awareness Day as statistics reveal more than 11 million working days were lost to work related stress last year. This startling figure translates as a Â£4 billion cost to society and HSE wants companies to be made aware of the real cost, not only to people but also to business. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news

Pressure On To Tackle Stress As Business Loses Out, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is supporting National Stress Awareness Day as statistics reveal more than 11 million working days were lost to work related stress last year. This startling figure translates as a Â£4 billion cost to society and HSE wants companies to be made aware of the real cost, not only to people but also to business. (Source: Anxiety News From Medical News Today)
Source: Anxiety News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news

Processed food and low moodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This study suggests that a healthier diet protects against depression, but it cannot prove this due to several limitations: It is plausible that depression affected the participants’ diet rather than the other way around. The researchers argue that this is unlikely to have happened as no association was found between the participants' early reports of depression (between 1991 and 1993) and their diet six years later. The results were also not affected by excluding people who already had signs of depression when their diets were measured between 1997 and 1999. Although this may be the case, different methods...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental health Source Type: news

New National Quarry Safety Team Formed, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new team of specialist inspectors has been assembled to crackdown on death, injury and ill-health in quarries and open cast mines across Great Britain. The team of Health and Safety Executive inspectors, initially five-strong, has decades of knowledge and expertise in the sector. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Companies Fined After Workers Exposed To Asbestos, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two businesses and a company director have been fined after workers in Manchester were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres. The prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) comes just days before the launch of a national Â£1.2 million campaign to increase awareness about asbestos among tradespeople. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Asbestos / Mesothelioma Source Type: news

New Statistics Show Big Improvements In Britain's Workplace Safety And Health RecordEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Britain became a healthier and safer place to work last year, according to figures released today by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Statistics show there has been a significant reduction in the numbers of people killed, injured or suffering work related ill-health from April 2008 to March 2009. Across England, Scotland and Wales, 29.3 million working days (equivalent to 1. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Demolition Firms After Employee Breaks His Spine In Fall, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Norwich employer has been fined Â£7,500 after one of his workers broke his spine in a fall at the former RAF Watton site in Norfolk. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Tim Philpott, trading as Philpott Demolition and Recycling, of Spinney Close, Long Stratton, Norwich, for his role in the incident on 20 April 2007. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 23, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Grangemouth Company Fined After Worker Gets 3,300-volt Electric Shock, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Grangemouth-based company has been fined for breaching health and safety law after a worker was burned by live power cables. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted refinery and petrochemical company Ineos Manufacturing Scotland Ltd for failing to ensure a safe system of work was in place before undertaking excavation work near live electrical cables. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 23, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Safety And Health Awareness Day In Billericay To Help Prevent Farmyard Accident, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Farmers across Essex will attend a Safety and Health Awareness Day (SHAD) this week to help them prevent agricultural accidents. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is holding the free event at Barleylands Farm, Barleylands Road, Billericay CM11 2UD on Thursday (October 22) in a bid to reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by farmyard incidents. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 22, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news

Litigation related to drug errors in anaesthesia: an analysis of claims against the NHS in England 1995–2007Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ninety-three claims (total cost £4 915 450) filed under 'anaesthesia' in the NHS Litigation Authority database between 1995 and 2007, alleging patient harm directly by drug administration error or by an allergic reaction, were analysed. Alleged errors were categorised using systems employed by the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention, the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims Project and the UK Health and Safety Executive. The severity of outcome in each claim was categorised using adapted National Patient Safety Agency definitions. Sixty-two claims involved alleged dru...
Source: Anaesthesia - October 21, 2009 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: J. Cranshaw, K. J. Gupta, T. M. Cook Source Type: journals

See Sense - Devon And Cornwall Businesses Urged To Cut Deaths And Serious Injuries Caused By Lorries, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive is launching a new campaign in Devon and Cornwall to reduce the number of people killed and injured by delivery vehicles in the two counties. Three people died in 2007-08 and 219 people were seriously injured by moving vehicles in their workplace between 2004 and 2008 in the region. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Mesothelioma Death Highlights Risk for Sheet Metal WorkersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sheet metal workers are one occupational group that has faced a history of asbestos exposure. In a recent story from Portsmouth England, Betty Williamson’s husband, a past sheet metal worker, passed away from an asbestos-related disease. Her husband, Tom Williamson, received a mesothelioma diagnosis in October of last year and was informed that he only had a few months to live. The couple initially became concerned after Mr. Williamson developed a bad cough. Mrs. Williamson believes her husband may have been exposed to asbestos during the 20 years that he worked for a sheet metal business. She said, “I cannot believe w...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - October 21, 2009 Category: Environmental Health Authors: jwhitmer Tags: Asbestos Exposure Mesothelioma Mesothelioma Diagnosis Source Type: news

Safety Warning After Lancashire Workers Get 11,000-volt Shock, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Outdoor workers in Lancashire are being urged to take extra care near overhead electricity lines after two men suffered 11,000-volt electric shocks and burns. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued the warning following the successful prosecution of Huntapac Produce Ltd in relation to an incident at Marsh Farm in Hesketh Bank near Preston. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Building Firms After Worker Is Seriously Injured In Fall, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging employers to ensure their workers are protected when working at height after a man fell from the first floor of a building he was working on, suffering life-threatening injuries. The man was using a power saw at Barnfields Industrial Estate in Leek, Staffordshire, when he fell through the side of the building to the ground on 30 October last year. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Employers After Two Norfolk Teenagers Seriously Injured By Electric Shocks, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to ensure they look after young workers, after two Norfolk teenagers suffered electric shocks while working on a farm near Thetford. One of the teenagers had to have his little toe and part of his big toe amputated from his left foot. He has also been left with long scars where cuts were made to relieve the pressure build-up in his legs. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Â£10,000 Fine After Worker Breaks Ribs In 10ft Fall, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Tipton-based firm has been fined Â£10,000 for breaching health and safety laws following a worker's fall at a warehouse. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted West Midlands Installations Ltd after one of its employees injured his head and ribs when he fell from a racking storage unit that he was assembling. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Streptomycin pioneer: Saving lives at 90Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Denny Mitchison fully intends to carry on having life-saving ideasDenny Mitchison gets up at 6.30am most weekdays. By 7.30am he is driving across Richmond Park, and by 8am he is installed in his windowless rabbit-hutch of an office in St George's, University of London, occasionally popping along the corridor to the institution's high-security infectious diseases labs. He recently decided that, at the age of 90, he might just allow himself Mondays off.He owes his presumed position as the oldest full-time professor in the country to his point-blank refusal to give up when, as he sees it, there is still work to be done."Scien...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 12, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Rachel Williams Tags: Research Research funding St George's, University of London Higher education Medical research Science The Guardian Interviews Features Source Type: news

Gateshead Manufacturer Fined Â£3000 After Workers Exposed To Hazardous Fumes, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has highlighted the importance of managing health risks effectively after a Gateshead company admitted exposing its workers to hazardous soldering fumes. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Liverpool Hospital Fined Over Legionella, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a strong health warning after high levels of the legionella bacteria were found at a Liverpool hospital. The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust was ordered to pay nearly Â£48,000 following an HSE investigation at the NHS Trust's hospital on Thomas Drive, Liverpool. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news

Health and Safety Executive slates trust's "complacency" over water supply legionellaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A hospital trust in Liverpool has been forced to pay £48,000 after unsafe levels of legionella bacteria were found in its bathing water supply. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - October 9, 2009 Category: UK Health Source Type: info

Health and Safety Executive slates trust's 'complacency' over water supply legionellaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A hospital trust in Liverpool has been forced to pay £48,000 after unsafe levels of legionella bacteria were found in its bathing water supply. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - October 9, 2009 Category: UK Health Source Type: info

Two Enfield Firms Fined After Unlicenced Asbestos Removal, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two companies have been prosecuted after workers and members of the public were exposed to unacceptable levels of asbestos during a removal project. The Health and Safety Executive took the companies to court, on the 06 October 2009, after an unlicensed contractor carried out the specialist work at a warehouse in Brimsdown, Enfield. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Asbestos / Mesothelioma Source Type: news

HSE And Police Speak With One Voice On Health And Safety, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched a policy statement entitled Striking the balance between operational and health and safety duties in the Police Service. The statement, a result of collaborative work with the Police Service, sets out how that balance can be achieved. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Food Manufacturer Fined After Worker's Fingertips Are Amputated, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive is warning food companies about the need for suitable risk assessments and adequate guarding of machinery after a company was fined today at Oxford Magistrates Court, following an incident where one of its employees was left with a permanently disfigured hand. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Warning On Machinery Guarding After Prosecution Of North Wales Company, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Employers operating machinery need to ensure that risks are fully assessed and that potentially dangerous moving parts are suitably guarded, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said. The warning follows the prosecution of a North Wales company for two separate incidents on the same machine in which employees' hands were trapped, causing them serious injury. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Trends in Wood Dust Inhalation Exposure in the UK, 1985-2005Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Analysis of the temporal trend in UK wood dust exposure concentrations revealed declines of 8% per annum. Interviews with key long-serving employees and management suggest that factors such as technological changes in production processes, response to new legislation, and enforcement agency inspections, together with global economic trends, could be linked to the downward trends observed. (Source: Annals of Occupational Hygiene)
Source: Annals of Occupational Hygiene - October 7, 2009 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Galea, K. S., Van Tongeren, M., Sleeuwenhoek, A. J., While, D., Graham, M., Bolton, A., Kromhout, H., Cherrie, J. W. Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Fragile Roofing Warning After Firm Fined For Newcastle Worker's Seven-metre Fall, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) warned of the dangers of working on fragile roofs, following the conviction of a Lancashire-based company and a director for breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

University deaths not linked to Rutherford radiation, concludes reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pollution from the Nobel prize-winner's atomic experiments 'unlikely' to be cause of spate of cancer deathsRadiation left over from 100-year-old experiments by Ernest Rutherford, the father of modern nuclear physics, is not responsible for a cluster of deaths at Manchester University, a report has concluded.Professor David Coggon, an occupational epidemiologist from Southampton University, said he was "pretty confident" there were only small health risks to people who worked in the building where the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist carried out atomic experiments with materials such as radon and polonium. "By far the ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 30, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Helen Carter Tags: University of Manchester Physics Research Higher education Science UK news guardian.co.uk Source Type: news

Cheltenham Borough Council Fined Â£14,000 After Ride On Mower Incident, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning that care needs to be taken when using ride-on mowing machines following a court prosecution of an employer. A council employee fell from a ride-on mower onto a park bench on 21 may 2008, breaking two ribs and suffering a compressed lung. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Employers To Control Risks From Workplace Vehicles, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers that they must have systems in place for ensuring pedestrians and vehicles can move safely around the workplace after a man was knocked over by a forklift truck. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Company Fined After Employee Dies From Serious Head Injuries At Work, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to implement and maintain safe systems of work and to offer full training to staff to ensure that the health and safety of employees is not put at risk. This follows the sentencing on Friday (25 September) of Delico Ltd at Aylesbury Crown Court. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Prosecutes Water Filtration Company After Worker Is Severely Injured, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to ensure that their equipment is fit for purpose and that safe and effective working systems are put into place, to protect employees. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Increases Flexibility Of First Aid At Work Training Regime, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is making changes to the first aid at work (FAW) training regime to make it more flexible - saving businesses time and money without compromising health and safety. The new guidance will see the mandatory four-day FAW training courses reduced to three days and there will also be an option for a one day course for smaller businesses. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 26, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

New Zealand Officals Share Lessons With Their HSE CounterpartsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Senior Manager from the Department of Labour (DoL) in New Zealand has been in Great Britain this week to learn lessons from, and share knowledge with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 26, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Safety Regulator Disappointed By 'killer' Advert Ruling, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) expressed its deep disappointment at a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to uphold a complaint about its 'Asbestos: The hidden killer' awareness campaign. The ASA has upheld one complaint from a single source challenging HSE on the numbers of workers it quoted as dying as a result of exposure to asbestos fibres. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Asbestos / Mesothelioma Source Type: news

Death And Injuries Prompt Potato Harvest Warning, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As the main potato harvesting season gets under way, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is calling on farmers and contractors to take extra care. The plea comes after a 34-year-old man was killed in Fife earlier this month while apparently working on a potato harvester that was powered up. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news

HSE Warning After Incident At Road Works Leaves Motorcyclist In Intensive Care, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned employers to maintain safe systems of working at road works, after a road traffic collision left a motorcyclist in intensive care. Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services Ltd of Ashwood Park, Basingstoke, was fined Â£15,000 and ordered to pay costs of Â£31,139. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Health and Safety Executive Warns Of Importance Of Risk Assessments When Caring For Vulnerable People, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Organisations responsible for the care of vulnerable people must ensure that an effective risk assessment regime is in place and that any risks are properly addressed and managed, says the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) The warning follows the death of an inpatient, Sylvan Money, who was found hanging in her room at the Bronllys Adult Mental Illness Unit in Brecon in January 2004. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Caregivers / Homecare Source Type: news

Employers Fined After Worker Injured From Double Risk, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Construction companies must assess and manage the risks from overhead power lines and working at height, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said, after three employers were prosecuted for an incident in which a worker received an electric shock and subsequently fell from a roof he was working on. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

HSE Warns Employers To Maintain Equipment And Provide Training After Forklift Injury, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers that machinery and equipment need to be properly maintained and adequate training provided, after a Staffordshire apprentice suffered serious foot injuries when a forklift truck overturned. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 21, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Companies Warned To Manage Transport Safely After Employee Crushed To Death By Forklift Truck, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to manage transport in the workplace after a man was killed when his forklift truck was obstructed in its path, toppled over and crushed him. Trackline (International) Ltd of 9 Spencer Parade, Northampton was today fined Â£7,500 and ordered to pay Â£6,690 costs at Lincoln Crown Court. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Company Fined After Exposing Employees To Risks Of Developing Severe Dermatitis, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is reminding companies of the importance of managing dermatitis risks, by effective risk assessments and taking adequate precautions to ensure that employees are not exposed to hazardous substances at work. The call comes after the sentencing today (9 September) of Prysmian Cables and Systems Limited at Southampton Crown Court. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dermatology Source Type: news

Proposing a common sense approach to assessing the risks posed by physical intervention techniquesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Physical intervention techniques pose a risk to all those exposed to them. Suitable and sufficient risk assessments are therefore essential to ensure patient safety. A robust process for assessing such techniques is outlined in this paper. Irrespective of whether they are universally accepted or approved, physical intervention techniques are being applied, in a variety of health and care settings, on a daily basis. Every time a technique is applied there is a risk of injury. Therefore, there is an imperative to develop an effective way in which such techniques can be effectively risk assessed. The development of a process ...
Source: Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing - September 14, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: L. P. HOLLINS Source Type: journals