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1 September 2011

Health and safety legislation exists to protect people from real risks at, or connected with, work. But it can be hard to see this from some of the stories that are reported. Below are 10 of the most bizarre health bans or restrictions spotted in med..

28 August 2011

A team from the Health and Safety Authority has launched an investigation into the death of a man at a city car dealers. The man - who's from Co Laois and in his 40s - died in hospital after he was crushed by a car at Windsor Motors on the Old Mon..

23 August 2011

Prime Minister David Cameron has included the UK’s“obsession with health and safety” in a list of socialproblems contributing to the broken society he blamesfor the recent rioting in some English cities. In a speech in his Oxfordshi..

19 August 2011

Recent research undertaken in Spain has concluded that those who work more than 40 hours a week are six times more likely to “burn out” than those who work fewer than 35 hours. The research was quoted on the Worksmart website, published b..

19 August 2011

Moy Park, Northern Ireland’s largest food processing company, with 13 production sites across Northern Ireland, England, France and the Netherlands, will take delivery of the world’s first Apollo Universal Generation 2, poultry collecting..

16 August 2011

All the latest HSE news, case studies, court stories, and guidance is now available to everyone free of charge - and it's all just a click away. Yes, the long-established Health & Safety Newsletter has had a make-over. The printed version has bee..

16 August 2011

A Belfast takeaway owner whose premises were found to contain dead and decaying animals has been fined £1,000 after failing basic food safety standards. Pizza Paradise, then run by Farzam Esmaily on Lisburn Road in southern Belfast, was fined b..

10 August 2011

A unique partnership between Larne Borough Council and ChainHR, a community based social enterprise has been established to provide quality assured environmental safety training.   The Safe People – Safe Places suite of courses are accred..

2 August 2011

B&Q Ireland Ltd has been fined €250,000 following the death of a shopper in one of its Dublin stores. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that a 58-year-old man was shopping at the B&Q store in Belgard Retail Park when he was struck by a..

31 July 2011

A BALLYMENA man who died following a “freak accident” at his work was just a year away from retirement.   Tributes have poured in for Trevor Allen, from the Galgorm area of the town, who passed away yesterday morning. Mr Allen, 63, w..

28 July 2011

The owner of a Cornwall car park has been jailed for nine months for ignoring a HSE prohibition notice requiring him to improve safety at the site. Nicholas Eastwood was served with the notice in February 2008 after HSE discovered vehicles were being..

26 July 2011

Last Friday 22 July 2011 HSE launched its three-month consultation on plans for costs of interventions to be recovered from businesses found to be in material breach of health and safety law.   Under ‘fee for intervention’,..