Safety Alerts
The key aim of SHEF(S) is to promote good health & safety across Scotland.
One of the best ways to do that is to provide as much useful safety information as possible. We will include safety alerts from our members and news from the HSE.
Any submissions should be emailed to sent to the secretary using the contact form.
HSE RSS feeds- Farm owner fined after overlooking legal requirements May 18, 2012The owner of a Bedfordshire farm has been prosecuted for failing to complete legally required documentation in relation to safe working near overhead power cables. […]HSE
- Waste company prosecuted after worker loses arm May 18, 2012A waste management and recycling company has been fined for safety failings after a worker lost most of his arm on an unguarded conveyor system at a Kent quarry. […]HSE
- Printing industry safety topics – Fire and explosion May 18, 2012Printing involves flammable materials which create significant fire and explosion risks. This guidance identifies some printing specific risks, outlines what you need to do and where you can find out more information. […]HSE
- RR925 – Healthy Design, Creative Safety: Approaches to health and safety teaching and learning in undergraduate schools of architecture May 18, 2012This report presents the results of a research project into the teaching of health and safety in undergraduate schools of Architecture in the UK. Previous studies into ‘identification and management of risk in undergraduate construction courses’ highlighted the need for schools of architecture to have a more consistent and integrated approach to the teaching […]HSE
- HSE Chair’s speech at the launch of Phase 2 of the Foundry Industry’s SHIFT Initiative – 20 March 2012 May 18, 2012‘The value to HSE of Joint Working with Industry’ – HSE Chair Judith Hackitt’s speech at event to launch the next stage of the molten metals industries Safety and Health Foundry Targets Initiative – known as SHIFT, at the National Metal forming Centre, Birmingham on 20 March 2012. […]HSE
- WAIT Toolkit – Helping you select the right equipment May 17, 2012If you don’t work at height very often or are unsure about which type of access equipment to use, it is important that you assess the risks and select the right equipment for the job. WAIT – Work at height Access equipment Information Toolkit – provides you with some possible solutions. […]HSE
- Grimsby firm fined after worker’s warehouse death May 17, 2012A Grimsby haulage company has been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was killed when a row of steel coils ‘collapsed like dominos’ trapping him under their five-tonne weight. […]HSE
- RR919 – Human factors that lead to non-compliance with standard operating procedures May 17, 2012This report presents results from the Health and Safety Laboratory’s study on the Human Factors that lead to non-compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratories. […]HSE
- Fines for ‘unsafe’ Croydon construction company May 17, 2012A Croydon-based construction company has been fined for continuing unsafe working practices at a site in Lewisham despite repeated warnings. […]HSE
- Builder fined £15,000 after carbon monoxide death (COPFS release) May 16, 2012At Haddington Sheriff Court today, John Martin Riva (DOB 21/07/62) was fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to a contravention of Sections 3 and 33 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 […]HSE
- Farm owner fined after overlooking legal requirements May 18, 2012
