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| HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin Issued: 23 May 2024
This week's edition includes: links to resources that will help ensure you are fully prepared when an HSE inspector visits your business details on how you can view a recording of our free webinar, focusing on the duty to manage asbestos how to make sure you have an HSE-approved version of the health and safety law poster news of a recent enforcement case resulting in a 6-figure fine after a worker suffered serious burns and injuries at a waste management company For more health and safety updates visit our website |
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| It is important to be prepared when an HSE inspector calls at your business. They will look at how you keep your workers, and anyone who may be affected by your work, healthy and safe. They may also give you health and safety advice or make sure you are providing suitable welfare facilities.  We have resources that will help you prepare as they explain: what to expect when an inspector visits your business and how inspections are carried out why inspections are an important part of keeping people healthy and safe at work how to let workers and their representatives know about information an inspector may provide during a visit You can: download our leaflet about a health and safety inspectorâs visit watch the animation about an inspectorâs call on HSE's YouTube channel |
The company was issued with a £200,000 fine following an incident that left a worker with burns to his face and body, as well as a broken left arm, fractured ribs and a dislocated kneecap. The injuries suffered by the worker happened after the crowbar he was using came into contact with a live electrical conductor. HSE's investigation found that: this was not part of the normal workload for the injured worker and he had not received any training with regards to undertaking electrical work the task had not been properly planned or risk assessed, and the electrical cables were not isolated before work began the level of supervision provided was inadequate and safety devices on the electrical supply had been set inappropriately, prioritising continuity of supply over safety of the electrical circuit Read the press release for more details on why the waste management company was fined  HSE's website has guidance on electrical safety.  Other recent enforcement cases include: Companies fined as electrician falls and fractures skull Farming partnership sentenced as worker crushed by hay bales As one of the UK's market surveillance authorities, HSE monitors 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 as product recalls and alerts on GOV.UK.â¯Â  Recent examples of notified products are: 3M 5E-11 Face Shield - GOV.UK
During high-speed particle impact testing conducted in accordance with EN 166 for B-marked face shields, some 5E-11 face shields (with a manufacture date of December 2021) were breaking
Beha-Amprobe MT204-S with Test Leads - GOV.UKÂ
The product has been assessed as presenting a high risk of electric shock. The inclusion of unshrouded test leads resulted in the machinery tester not being compliant with EN 61577-14 or the essential health and safety requirements
If you missed our recent asbestos duty to manage webinar you can watch the recording on demand. The webinar, âDuty to manage asbestos in buildings: The law, the risk to health and how to safely manage asbestosâ, featured HSE experts. Â You will learn more about: why asbestos is dangerous where asbestos is likely to be found the legal obligation to manage asbestos in buildings HSEâs Asbestos â Your Duty campaign how to carry out an effective asbestos risk assessment how to complete an asbestos management plan Register to watch the free asbestos duty to manage webinar |
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