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Quarrying company fined £300k after blasting operation puts workers at risk

Published on Monday, December 6th, 2021 by Shirley Lovegrove

IN COURT Breedon Trading Ltd has been fined for safety breaches after a fly rock projection event occurred during the use of explosives. A blast at Cwt-y-Bugail Quarry in Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, North Wales, resulted in rocks being ejected outside of the danger zone, Llandudno Magistrates’ Court was told. The…

Published on Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 by Shirley Lovegrove

BP Hydrogen project • Together with BP’s already-proposed ‘blue’ hydrogen project (H2Teesside), HyGreen Teesside strengthens Teesside as the UK’s leading hydrogen hub to decarbonize industry and heavy transport. • HyGreen Teesside and H2Teesside together have the potential to deliver 30% of the UK’s 2030 target for hydrogen production. BP Hygreen…

Virtual Course Delivery

Published on Thursday, November 25th, 2021 by Shirley Lovegrove

After successful virtual courses being delivered during the pandemic it has been decided that this will be continued to be offered as an additional way of course delivery. Meeting with industry sectors has resulted in Zoom or Microsoft Teams being an acceptable way of ensuring training can continue to be…

Published on Monday, July 26th, 2021 by Shirley Lovegrove

IN COURT A forging company has been fined after an employee suffered a fatal injury when he fell from height from a mobile tower scaffold. A Stokes Group Limited employee George Clifford was fatally injured at the company site on Cochrane Road, Dudley, West Midlands, after falling from a tower…

HSE to set up building safety regulator

Published on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 by admin

A new building safety regulator is to be established within the Health & Safety Executive. The building safety regulator is a new official post that is being created as part of the government’s Building Safety Programme, set up in response to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London. The legal…

Published on Friday, January 10th, 2020 by admin

The £4.9bn Tideway tunnel is using river transport to cut road congestion and reduce the project’s impact on London’s air quality. CM reports. Tideway is London’s latest giant infrastructure project and the spoil excavated will total a staggering 3.7 million tonnes, of which 3.1 million will come from the 25km-long and…

Published on Monday, January 6th, 2020 by admin

Urgent action is needed to tackle the stagnation in the number of people killed or injured in collisions involving drivers working or travelling on business, according to IAM RoadSmart. The road safety charity’s concerns about a worrying lack of progress in driving down the number of work-related traffic incidents are…

Published on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 by admin

In this series of monthly posts Safety Pass Alliance are proud to spotlight our valued training partners who diligently and professionally deliver SPA passport training programmes to hundreds of delegates each year. Firstly, we would like to introduce BOZP Pardubice Ltd, who are based in the Czech Republic city of…

Reducing Food Hazards

Published on Monday, December 16th, 2019 by admin

Over the past few decades, there have been significant improvements in health and safety on food and drink manufacturing sites, with the overall injury rate dropping by over 50% since 1990/91. However, the sector is still responsible for over a quarter of all manufacturing injuries – more than 5,000 incidents…

Published on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 by admin

Since the new sentencing guidelines were introduced in February 2016, health and safety failings have become increasingly expensive for construction companies, who must also keep on top of changing regulations. Ian McKinnon offers a solution. While prioritising health and safety is a moral obligation for any organisation, it also makes…

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