Bill Longley-Cook, Author at Simplifi Solutions

13th July 2020

Incompetent H&S consultant fined

A self-employed consultant was fined £1,400 for providing health and safety advice on technical and complex matters while not being qualified to advise his clients. He provided inadequate and flawed advice to small and medium sized enterprises on the management and control of risk in relation to hand arm vibration, work place noise and the control of substances hazardous to health. HSE investigation found that the consultant incorrectly identified risk from exposure to hand arm vibration as ‘low’ and advised to use ‘anti vibration gloves’ as an appropriate control measure. He also failed to identify that paints containing isocyanates can cause asthma.

13th July 2020

DoT consultation of CO2 emission controls

The Department of Transport is consulting on plans for a CO2 emissions regulatory scheme for new cars and vans https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/regulating-co2-emission-standards-for-new-cars-and-vans-after-transition and for new heavy-duty vehicles https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/regulating-co2-emission-standards-for-new-heavy-duty-vehicles-after-transition after transition. Consultation closes 21st August.

10th July 2020

SI 2020/711

SI 2020/711. The Climate Change Agreements, CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. Comes into force immediately before IP completion day. These Regulations amend the regulations listed below and substitute a number of references to “exit day” in those regulations with “IP completion day”.• SI 2018/1205. The Climate Change Agreements (Amendment of Agreements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018• SI 2018/1336. The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018• SI 2018/1342. The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018.

9th July 2020

HSE publish the annual work place fatality data for the year 2019/20

The provisional annual data for work-related fatal accidents revealed that 111 workers were fatally injured at work between April 2019 and March 2020 (a rate of 0.34 deaths per 100,000 workers), the lowest year on record. HSE comment that this represents a fall of 38 deaths from the previous year, though it is likely that this fall was accentuated by the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the economy in the final two months of the year. https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm.