Aug 2020
News - August 2020 - Legal Update
COVID-security. The HSE has provided guidance for businesses to ensure they’re “COVID-secure” including specific guidance for the manufacturing sector.
https://www.hse.gov.uk/coronavirus/working-safely/index.htm
https://www.hse.gov.uk/coronavirus/working-safely/manufacturing/index.htm
Making workplace changes? Think forklift truck! The Forklift Association has issued a reminder to consider safety around forklift trucks when reviewing layout and procedures within your business.
Fatal accident statistics. Provisional workplace fatality figures for 2019/20 show that 111 workers and 92 members of the public died as a result of work-related activities in the UK. Falls from height account for the highest cause of death (29), followed by ‘struck by a moving vehicle’ (20), ‘trapped by something collapsing / overturning’ (15), contact with moving machinery (11) and Others (18).
The figures are the lowest number on record.
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/fatalinjuries-20.pdf
Amputation incidents. Halls of Scotland have been fined £310,000 following the amputation of two employees’ fingers in separate incidents in 2016 and 2019, at a meat processing factory.
Assessing manual handling risk. This new musculoskeletal disorders assessment tool from the HSE provides a digital solution to the initial assessment of manual handling activities.
Fines for vibration injury. A motor sales company and its occupational health consultant have been prosecuted after an employee was diagnosed with Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS).
Tile manufacturer fined for broken bones. Spartan promenade tiles has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay full costs after an employee’s arm was pulled into a conveyor tail drum.