Legal & Practice Updates - 2010

19.08.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Worker impaled at Workington factory
(hse.gov.uk)

17.08.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Motor vehicle repair bodyshop workers still at risk of asthma
(hse.gov.uk)

11.08.2010 - Environmental Update
50 days left to register for CRC
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

10.08.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Quarry company fined after digger death
(hse.gov.uk)

09.08.2010 - Environmental Update
Biodiesel plant had potential to pollute Washwood Heath Brook
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

05.08.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Company and director prosecuted after staff exposed to high levels of lead
(hse.gov.uk)

04.08.2010 - Employment Law Update
Hospital consultant was sacked for taking maternity leave, tribunal finds
(telegraph.co.uk)

02.08.2010 - Environmental Update
Hazardous waste dumped close to school
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

30.07.2010 - Employment Law Update
Scrapping retirement age opens 'Pandora's box’ of tribunal claims
(telegraph.co.uk)

29.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Architects and construction firm fined after worker falls nine metres to his death
(hse.gov.uk)

26.07.2010 - Environmental Update
Dairy farm fined for slurry pollution
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

22.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Worker loses lower leg after paving machine crush
(hse.gov.uk)

16.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£9.5m bill for firms behind Britain's most costly industrial disaster
(hse.gov.uk)

13.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Caerphilly engineering company fined after workers' fingers severed
(hse.gov.uk)

09.07.2010 - Environmental Update
United Utilities prosecuted over pollution at Walverden Water, Lancashire
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

06.07.2010 - Employment Law Update
Annual statistics for the Tribunals Service, 2009-10
(tribunals.gov.uk)

05.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Machine supplier and university fined after worker traps arm in harvester
(hse.gov.uk)

02.07.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Two Cornish companies fined after fall through fragile roof light
(hse.gov.uk)

29.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Construction company and directors fined after death
(hse.gov.uk)

23.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Company fined £280,000 after worker's head crushed
(hse.gov.uk)

21.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£39,960 in fines following serious roof fall
(hse.gov.uk)

18.06.2010 - Environmental Update
Dairy farmer fined for polluting stream
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

15.06.2010 - Employment Law Update
Policewoman wins nearly £600,000 in sexual discrimination payout
(telegraph.co.uk)

15.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Health and safety ‘used as an excuse’ Judith Hackitt warns
(hse.gov.uk)

14.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Elderly resident lowered into scalding bath is left with first degree burns
(hse.gov.uk)

10.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Bakery directors fined after staff exposed to risk of electrocution and irritant dust
(hse.gov.uk)

08.06.2010 - Environmental Update
Raid on illegal waste site
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

04.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Boss fined £20,000 after worker loses foot in shavings machine
(hse.gov.uk)

04.06.2010 - Employment Law Update
Serving RAF officer discriminated against ‘because she was pregnant’, tribunal rules
(telegraph.co.uk)

02.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Employer without compulsory insurance fined
(hse.gov.uk)

01.06.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Premier league football club fined after worker’s three-metre fall
(hse.gov.uk)

26.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Worker’s fingers chopped off at plastics firm
(hse.gov.uk)

24.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Waste management firm fined after driver killed at Northamptonshire landfill site
(hse.gov.uk)

20.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Workshop guilty of continuing to use dangerous gas heater
(hse.gov.uk)

13.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£7,000 fine after worker crushed in building collapse
(hse.gov.uk)

13.05.2010 - Environmental Update
Fly-tipping offences costly for offenders
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

10.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Telford firm fined £75,000 after worker suffers serious head injury
(hse.gov.uk)

07.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Companies and director fined after worker is paralysed
(hse.gov.uk)

06.05.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Firm fined after teen worker’s leg crushed by steel
(hse.gov.uk)

03.05.2010 - Employment Law Update
City worker loses £4m sex discrimination case
(guardian.co.uk)

30.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Food manufacturer fined after worker’s finger is amputated
(hse.gov.uk)

27.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
New protection for workers from artificial light
(hse.gov.uk)

22.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Engineering services firm fined after worker suffers serious back injuries
(hse.gov.uk)

20.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Factory boss fined after worker falls through roof
(hse.gov.uk)

19.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Five-year ban for Director after raft of health and safety breaches
(hse.gov.uk)

16.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Metal company fined after truck runs over worker
(hse.gov.uk)

14.04.2010 - Employment Law Update
Army faces £100,000 payout after tribunal backs AWOL single mother
(dailymail.co.uk)

13.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Bakery company fined for failing to protect worker
(hse.gov.uk)

08.04.2010 - Environmental Update
Blackpool Pleasure Beach waste fine
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

07.04.2010 - Employment Law Update
Devon nurse loses crucifix ‘ban’ claim at tribunal
(bbc.co.uk)

06.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
New tower crane regulations come into force
(hse.gov.uk)

01.04.2010 - Health & Safety Update
1 in 4 construction sites fail safety inspections
(hse.gov.uk)

30.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Company fined after worker plunges through open skylight
(hse.gov.uk)

28.03.2010 - Employment Law Update
Bishops claim discrimination against Christians
(itn.co.uk)

25.03.2010 - Environmental Update
Hotel fined after sewage effluent pollutes stream
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

24.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Company and director fined after worker falls to death from statue
(hse.gov.uk)

22.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Greengrocer owner fined £2,100 for having no insurance
(hse.gov.uk)

18.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Fine after worker has finger crushed by 40 tonne press
(hse.gov.uk)

16.03.2010 - Employment Law Update
BCC warns on employment law
(telegraph.co.uk)

12.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Corus fined after mobile crane overturns
(hse.gov.uk)

10.03.2010 - Environmental Update
Fine for face cream pond pollution
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

08.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Firm fined after worker trapped for more than two hours in trench collapse
(hse.gov.uk)

04.03.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Cannock firm fined after worker’s arm damaged by drill
(hse.gov.uk)

01.03.2010 - Employment Law Update
Employment tribunal awards Kidderminster man £40,000
(kidderminstershuttle.co.uk)

25.02.2010 - Employment Law Update
Homosexual man wins discrimination claim against company that tried to 'de-gay' his pub
(telegraph.co.uk)

23.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Bradford property developer fined for failings at Hull site
(hse.gov.uk)

22.02.2010 - Environmental Update
Fine for illegal car breaker’s yard
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

18.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Food giant prosecuted after employee's hand is crushed
(hse.gov.uk)

15.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Company fined after worker’s four-foot fall
(hse.gov.uk)

12.02.2010 - Employment Law Update
Equality watchdog faces multiple sexism accusations
(guardian.co.uk)

09.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Stockport company fined after worker's legs set alight
(hse.gov.uk)

08.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
HSE calls for careful driving in depots
(hse.gov.uk)

04.02.2010 - Employment Law Update
Whistleblow nurses lose tribunal battle
(manchestereveningnews.co.uk)

03.02.2010 - Environmental Update
New civil powers will mean greater environmental protection at lower cost to busines
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

01.02.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Slips, trips & falls cost the UK around £800M per year
(hse.gov.uk)

29.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Bolton company fined after builder falls to death
(hse.gov.uk)

27.01.2010 - Environmental Update
Bristol 'man with a van' receives jail sentence for waste and fly-tipping offences
(environment-agency.gov.uk)

22.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£100,000 fine after disabled teenager fatally scalded
(hse.gov.uk)

21.01.2010 - Employment Law Update
Trade unionist sues Balfour Beatty
(guardian.co.uk)

20.01.2010 - Employment Law Update
Sacked engineer awarded £20,000
(thisisstaffordshire.co.uk)

19.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Vehicle spot checks drive new load safety campaign
(hse.gov.uk)

15.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£80,000 fine following young man's crush death
(hse.gov.uk)

12.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Prosecution launched against M&S and four contractors for exposing people to asbestos
(hse.gov.uk)

11.01.2010 - Employment Law Update
Employment tribunal can determine enforceability
(timesonline.co.uk)

07.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
Builder fined for using dangerous scaffolding
(hse.gov.uk)

04.01.2010 - Health & Safety Update
£280k fine after Cheshire oil worker is paralysed
(hse.gov.uk)