Fire safety: removing and replacing cladding on tall buildings
December 2, 2018Following the Grenfell Tower fire a number of tall buildings were identified with cladding that did not meet fire safety standards. Subsequently work has begun to remove and replace existing c...
Fewer prosecutions; bigger fines
December 2, 2018The latest figures released by the HSE show that a verdict was reached in 517 cases prosecuted by the HSE (or the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland) in 2017/18 a fall from 612...
Discovering safety
December 2, 2018The HSE and the University of Manchester are starting work on an ambitious new programme called Discovering Safety. The programme aims to use using new insights from data and novel analytical ...
Counting the cost of injury and ill health
December 2, 2018Latest statistics released by the HSE show that the annual cost of work related injury and new cases of ill health in Britain was £15 billion of this approximately £9.7billion related to new...
Appeal launched in Opera House hearing loss case
December 2, 2018In May we reported how judgement had been awarded against the Royal Opera House following a claim by a musician that their hearing had been damaged by a particularly loud rehearsal in 2012. It...
Substance misuse assistance
November 22, 2018Public health England has released a new toolkit to help employers deal with workplace drug, alcohol and tobacco misuse issues. Is it worth a look? In June 2018, Public Health England released...
Do you need work place banter training?
November 22, 2018It’s been reported that Leicester Police is offering all its employees “workplace banter training”. This is an unusual step, but is it something you should be doing too? In September 201...
Employer liable for boss’s private party punch
November 22, 2018The court of appeal has ruled that an employer was vicariously liable for an employee’s injuries after he was punched by his boss at a private party. Does this mean that you’re now account...
It’s official – tribunal claims have doubled!
November 22, 2018In year 1 it was claimed that employment tribunal claims had doubled since the abolition of fees, even though the official figures at the time indicated only a 64% increase. The Government’s...
Inducement to opt-out of auto enrolment
November 22, 2018Legal duty in July 2018, the pension regulator (TPR) announced a 68% increase in complaints which relate to employers attempting to have their employees opt out of pensions auto – enrolment....
Preparing for the Bonfire Season
November 2, 2018And so the firework season begins…. Fireworks are now used widely across many public, corporate and charity events throughout the season and well into the New Year. If you or your organisa...
Name calling in the workplace – Unfair Dismissal
October 26, 2018An employee of a motorcycle manufacturer who was fired after she called one of her colleagues a ‘knob head’ over a workplace email was unfairly dismissed, the Employment Appeal tribunal (E...
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