Farm Inspection Initiative
January 26, 2019The HSE have announced that their programme of inspections this year will look at safety standards on farms. In particular inspectors will be looking at machinery, falls from height, children ...
Controlling The Hazards of Welding Fume
January 26, 2019In 2015 BOHS, the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, in conjunction with the HSE and a number of other bodies launched an initiative called Breath Freely. This initiative aims to ...
Driverless Vehicle Consultation
January 26, 2019As technology develops and fully automated vehicles become closer to being a reality in vehicle fleets and on the roads there are a number of issues that need to be resolved. As part of a thre...
Cranes And Trains: New Guidance Issued
January 26, 2019In association with Network Rail the Construction Plant Association (CPA) has launched a new Good Practice Guide covering Requirements for Mobile Cranes Alongside Railways Controlled by Networ...
Carbon Steel Safety Alert
January 26, 2019Following investigations into an incident in the USE in 2010 where the shell of a heat exchanger ruptured catastrophically, killing seven workers, the HSE have issued a safety alert aimed at t...
Building A Safer Future
January 26, 2019Following the Grenfell Tower fire the government launched an independent review of building regulations and fire safety. The final report of this review was published in May 2018, this made 53...
Liability For Undisclosed Disabilities?
January 26, 2019If an employee fails to disclose their disability to you, can they later claim that they’ve been directly discriminated against? Mr Mutombo-Mpania (M) applied for a job with Angard (A), a fi...
Fake Reference Costs Employee £4,725
January 26, 2019An employee has been ordered to pay his employer £4,725 after he provided a fictitious reference, using the name of a Star Wars Character. Damages from employee It is not often that we see tr...
EU Employee Status Post Brexit
January 26, 2019For months there has been uncertainty over the employment status of EU citizens in the UK in the immediate aftermath of Brexit. The Government has now given some guidance on this issue. At the...
Disciplinary Procedure and Witness Statements
January 26, 2019An employee has been accused of serious misconduct. You’ve taken witness statements from several colleagues who say that they “didn’t see anything” should you disclose them to the accu...
New duty to publish family friendly policies
December 20, 2018In October 2018 it was reported that the government is considering forcing employers to publish their parental leave and pay policies. How likely is this to happen and will you be affected? Tr...
What the current National Living Wage is, what it means, and how it is going to change
December 20, 2018What is it? First thing’s first, let’s clear up the confusion regarding the difference between the National Minimum Wage, National Living Wage and the ‘real living wage’. The terms are...
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