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Weekly Digest ebulletin
HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin
Issued: 3 April 2023
This week’s edition includes:
– advice on first aid at work, as we outline the basics your business will need
– the risks associated with asbestos and how to manage them
– information about managing the risks of harm-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)
– news of recent enforcement prosecutions
– links to the latest job vacancies from HSE
Our ‘basics for your business’ webpages offer health and safety advice, whatever industry you work in.
– a first aid kit
– training workers
– first aid for homeworkers
– appointing first aiders
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A pipeline transportation company were fined for safety breaches after workers were exposed to risk of serious injury and death while working on a leaking pipeline containing petrol under pressure.
The workers were excavating a suspected pipeline leak in an area where a previous repair had taken place. The risks arising from the excavation work and exposure were significant.
HSE’s investigation found that the company had failed to properly identify and control the risks associated with carrying out a pipeline repair.
Other recent prosecution cases include:
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Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) can be caused by using hand-held power tools for prolonged periods of time.
It is a painful, disabling disease of the hands affecting blood vessels, nerves and joints.
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Global Asbestos Awareness Week runs from 1 to 7 April. Despite being banned in 1999, figures show that 5,000 people a year still die from asbestos-related diseases in the UK.
We know that asbestos remains in millions of homes and buildings today.
HSE’s Asbestos & You campaign is urging tradespeople to protect themselves from exposure to lethal asbestos fibres during their work. Those carrying out repairs or refurbishment work are at a higher risk of disturbing asbestos, especially when working in houses built before the year 2000.
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