http://www.safetyservices.co.uk Company and Industry Safety News provided by the Safety Services (UK) Ltd. which has now been providing Health and Safety advice and training services to industry for over 20 yrs and has full time advisers and trainers that has been recruited from a range of employment sectors namely local authority, construction, manufacturing, engineering and retail. en-us Copyright safetyservices.co.uk All Rights Reserved. Tue Jan 31 13:54:53 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/images/ssuklogo150.gif http://www.safetyservices.co.uk http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=342 A construction worker fell 40ft to his death from the roof of a former Blackburn factory yesterday. , Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=343 A construction worker died from massive crush injuries when his head became trapped in the jaws of a grab machine being wrongly used to move a pallet of cement bags. , Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=341 A Lancashire roofer has been prosecuted after he and two employees were spotted on a shop roof without any protection to stop them falling. , Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=340 A Liverpool businessman has been fined £112,000 after a labourer died following a fall from the roof of an industrial unit, just months after another worker was injured in a fall at the same site. , Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=339 From 6 April 2012, subject to Parliamentary approval, RIDDOR’s over three day injury reporting requirement will change. From then the trigger point will increase from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened). , Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=338 An experienced technician at a plastic products factory in Cornwall was killed after he was crushed between the plates on a machine used to make plastic lids. , Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=337 A construction firm and its company secretary have been fined after construction workers were put a risk during the refurbishment of its offices in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. , Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 UTC 2012 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=336 A carpenter and general handyman, has been fined after he removed partition walls containing asbestos insulating board (AIB) at premises in Olton. , Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 UTC 2011 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=335 A Logistics firm in Essex has been prosecuted after an employee was seriously injured when he was crushed by a reversing lorry at their depot. , Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 UTC 2011 http://www.safetyservices.co.uk/news.asp?ID=334 The BHTA will withdraw the previous standard from 31 December 2011 allowing businesses until then to conform. , Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 UTC 2011