Issue Date: 18/03/2019 Introduction: This Safety Notice is aimed at: companies providing maintenance of platform lifts (vertical lifting platforms) and owners/operators of such platform lifts used by people with impaired mobility, installed at their premises. Information is provided for maintenance companies on: the risks from tampering with safety critical components (safety devices) and […]
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Suspended sentence and electronic tag for scaffolder who verbally abused a Health and Safety Executive inspector
A scaffolder who verbally abused an HSE inspector has been handed a suspended prison sentence and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring tag. He was erecting scaffold on the front of a house for installation of solar roof panels when the inspector pulled him up for working unsafely. She was on her way to work […]
HSE safety alert – use of ICAR capacitors in uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems
Target audience: All users of industrial uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems including, but not limited to, the chemical industry, energy industry, offshore oil and gas production and other users of high capacity electrical capacitors in industrial equipment. Affected capacitors are known to be found in some models of UPS system manufactured by Vertiv Infrastructure, previously […]
Advice for employers – company and director sentenced after multiple workers diagnosed with hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)
A company providing specialised services in rock drilling, cliff stabilisation and rock anchors, and its director, have been sentenced after a number of workers were diagnosed with hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). The Court heard how three employees had developed and reported symptoms of HAVS but no action was taken. The employees used tools such […]