A father-of-three was left paralysed from the chest down after falling through a ceiling at a house renovation in Derbyshire. Chesterfield builder Andrew Clifford remained lying face down on the floor ...

Britain’s workplace health and safety regulator, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is calling on all employers during Stress Awareness Week 2024 to carry out their legal duty to prevent ...

A school trust in Surrey has been fined after part of a pupil’s finger was amputated. The five-year-old boy, a Year 1 pupil at Danetree Primary School in Epsom, had been leaving the toilet on 15 June ...

ASM Metal Recycling Ltd, of 55 Station Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 1QL, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act. They were fined £650,000 and was ...

A company has been fined following an outbreak of legionella at its sheltered housing accommodation in Birkenhead, putting vulnerable residents at risk of contracting Legionnaires’ disease. The deadly ...

A company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained a fractured skull at its site in Glasgow. In addition to a fractured skull, the worker sustained a broken clavicle, a ripped earlobe and ...

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A farmer from Hampshire has received a suspended prison sentence after a worker fell to his death. Phillip France lost his ...

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has confirmed two non-executive director appointments to the board of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Professor Christopher Johnson and Dr Cathie ...

HSE’s press office is normally open from 9.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. If you are a member of the media: please call 0151 922 1221 or email [email protected].