(AGENPARL) - Roma, 4 Aprile 2022 - (AGENPARL) – lun 04 aprile 2022 This week’s news and updates about health and safety at work []
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Weekly Digest eBulletin
HSE Weekly Digest eBulletin
Issued: 4 April 2022
This week’s edition contains links to information on ventilation in the workplace and how you can improve this. We also have advice and guidance on protecting workers from the risks of manual handling injuries.
In addition, there is information on job vacancies, and we have news of recent enforcement prosecutions. There are also details of upcoming training courses and opportunities.
Employers must make sure there is adequate ventilation in enclosed areas of their workplace.
The pages include a look at:
– why ventilation is so important
– how to keep temperatures comfortable in ventilated workplaces
– how to improve ventilation
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A farmer has been sentenced after a worker suffered multiple injuries after becoming entangled in the contra-rotating rollers of a potato harvester.
The employee was pulled leg first into the machine and became stuck up to his knee. This resulted in burns to the leg, a pulled hamstring, torn calf, broken nerves and hairline fractures to the knee and ankle.
HSE’s investigation found the farmer had failed to implement a ‘safe stop procedure’ to isolate power and stop the movement of the rollers before the worker accessed them.
Other recent enforcement news includes:
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As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace.
There are also links to a variety of useful resources. These include our downloadable publications:
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HSE are recruiting up to 80 regulatory scientists.
We have opportunities for regulatory scientists to work in the following areas:
– Human Health Regulatory Scientists
– Environmental Regulatory Scientists
– Regulatory Assessment Managers
You will work as part of a team and be responsible for technical assessments into regulatory programs on biocides, pesticides and general chemicals to support regulatory decisions in the UK.
The closing date for applications is 25 April.
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Our training is built around current real-world expertise and expert science. Upcoming highlights include:
(26-27 April, live online)
(4 May, Buxton)
(11 May, Buxton)
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