MD Safety comment: If anyone is looking to enhance their H&S competency then this is a good first step.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence is for senior business leaders, or anyone who aspires to this role in the future and is designed to help leaders become better health and safety advocates and influencers by highlighting key areas to focus on to make a difference.

MD Safety comment:  Although it should be more frequent - its not often that companies are fined under H&S law for at work driving offences.

A multinational services company has been fined £240,000 after admitting health and safety failings following a fatal crash on the A11 in Norfolk.

A manufacturing company has been fined after a dad was drawn into a machine and broke his arm in two places.  Paul Pearce, a father-of-two from Lymington in Hampshire, was unable to work for over a year following the incident on 12 March 2021.

A vape liquid manufacturing company in Manchester has been fined after a worker lost two fingers and a thumb while clearing a blockage in a packaging machine.  The agency worker at VN Labs Ltd was operating a nicotine liquid pod packaging machine at the firm’s premises on Beacon Road, Trafford Park, when it became blocked on 22 October 2020.

After months of controversy and opposition in the House of Lords, the government has now replaced the overarching sunset clause in the Retained EU Law Bill (the 'Bill') with a list of the 600 pieces of retained EU law that it intends to revoke by the end of 2023. Although the Bill is still making its way through Parliament, with amendments to the text still being considered, it now seems that the Bill will not bring any major changes to health and safety or environmental law in the UK.

HSE principal inspector Amy Kalay explains how a Friday afternoon turned to tragedy at a Birmingham haulage yard.  On 30 August 2019, depot manager for Turners (Soham) Ltd Neil Roberts was leaving work when he was struck and fatally injured by a vehicle reversing out of a maintenance bay. 

A leading manufacturer of aircraft seats has been fined £660,000 after one of its employees suffered horrific injuries when he fell through a roof at a site in South Wales.  Safran Seats GB Limited was carrying out work to vacate its premises in Llantarnam Industrial Park in Cwmbran when the incident happened on 19 May 2020.

NEWPORT council is being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after one of its employees was killed following a tractor collision.    Highways worker Stephen Bell, 57, died after an incident on Langstone Court Road on Thursday, July 18, 2019.

Responding to the announcement that a record 2.6 million people in the UK are not working due to long-term sickness, IOSH Head of Policy Ruth Wilkinson makes a statement

HSE principal inspector Amy Kalay explains how a wall collapse at a metal recycling site in Birmingham left five workers dead and two company directors facing nine months in jail.  On 7 July 2016, five agency workers were part of a team clearing swarf from a metal recycling bay at a site operated by Hawkeswood Metal Recycling Ltd and Shredmet Ltd (now operating as Ensco 10101 Ltd) in Birmingham. Around 15 minutes after the men started work, the 12ft-high, 45-tonne wall of the bay – made up of 30 concrete blocks – collapsed, killing the men instantly.