(AGENPARL) – gio 04 maggio 2023 Improved guidance on managing health and safety and controlling risk | Extra fairground checks begin []
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Weekly Digest ebulletin
HSE Weekly Digest ebulletin
Issued: 4 May 2023
This week’s edition includes:
– information about improved guidance on managing health and safety and controlling risk
– details about inspections on the safety of specific fairground and theme park rides
– news of recent enforcement prosecutions
– links to our latest job vacancies
There are no changes to legal requirements, but HSE’s improved guidance structure will help you quickly find and understand what your business must do to comply with health and safety law.
– understand what managing health and safety means
– find the right guidance for your workplace
– use the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach to manage health and safety in a way that is simple and proportionate to your risks, while still complying with the law
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Two construction companies have been sentenced after a worker was hospitalised when struck by a 124kg panel.
The individual was a lift supervisor at a construction site and had been using a tower crane to lift a structured insulated panel (SIP). During the lifting operation, the SIP struck steelwork and fell on top of the worker, resulting in a fractured collarbone, shoulder blade, left ankle and rib.
HSE’s investigation found that both the principal contractor, and the contractor responsible for the design, supply and installation of the SIPs, were responsible for health and safety failings. Both firms were fined.
Other recent prosecution cases include:
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HSE has guidance on how to manage the risks to volunteers. It will help employers who engage volunteers keep them, and those who work with them, healthy and safe.
There is also information on:
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Targeted inspections on the safety of specific fairground and theme park rides are taking place after a string of incidents.
The programme, which runs until September 2023 and will feature an additional 100 inspections, aims to promote the safe use of certain rides.
This follows a number of incidents at different fairgrounds and theme parks in recent years, several of which are currently under investigation by HSE.
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