| COSHH essentials | Recycling company fined over £2 million | Working Minds campaign |
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| HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin Issued: 1 February 2024
This week's edition features: advice and guidance on controlling harmful substances details and free resources from HSE's Working Minds campaign news of a recent enforcement prosecution, where a company was fined over £2 million after a worker was killed links to some of our latest vacancies at HSE For more health and safety updates visit our website |
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| The worker was struck and killed by a loading shovel while walking across a traffic area on site. HSE's investigation into the incident found that the recycling company: failed to protect pedestrians from the mobile plant operations it was carrying out at the site
had no suitable traffic management arrangements in place, so pedestrians were at risk of being struck by moving vehicles, including loading shovels For further details read this press release.  HSE's guidance explains how you can assess and control the risks from workplace transport, including specific advice on separating people from vehicles. HSE is one of the UK's market surveillance authorities, which monitor and enforce legal requirements on the safety of most products used in the workplace, including any risks to health. HSE has a duty to notify the Secretary of State about unsafe or non-compliant products and of the measures taken and communicated by an economic operator.â¯Â  Products that present a serious or high risk to the health and safety of the user, and products that have been recalled, are published on GOV.UK.â¯Â  Recent examples of products notified are: Terberg OmniDEKA Hydraulic Bin Lift 3M Peltor X-series P5 Over the Ear Earmuffs Refuse Collection Vehicle Bin Lifting Device Pump House Portable Air Conditioning Unit |
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