A Slough based drainage company has been fined £60,000 and ordered to pay a further £39,506 in costs after a worker was seriously injured when an unsafe excavation collapsed during work to lay new pipes near Canterbury.
HSE’s investigation found that found the excavation pit was missing vital shoring.
A Sheffield firm special materials firm was fined £160,000, with costs of £72,321 following the death, in August 2011, of an employee who was struck by a load on a moving crane.
An investigation by HSE found that found that the company had not reviewed risk assessments and safe systems of work for nine years. Many employees who operated cranes had received no refresher training for between six and ten years and the training programme for new starters was inadequate
The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) is consulting the proposed authorisation of eleven substances. Consultation closes on 18th February 2016. The substances are: • Dihexyl phthalate and 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, dihexyl ester, branched and linear (plasticiser in PVC); • HHPA and MHHPA (hardener for epoxy resins); • Trixylyl phosphate (in lubricants, hydraulic fluids and plastics production); • Two boron compounds: sodium perborate; perboric acid, sodium salt and sodium peroxometaborate (in detergents and bleaching products); • Four lead compounds: orange lead (lead tetroxide); lead monoxide (lead oxide); tetralead trioxide sulphate andpentalead tetraoxide sulphate (batteries and rubber production, in adsorbents)
EU 2015/2066. Commission Implementing Regulation establishing, pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 517/2014, minimum requirements and conditions for the certification of persons carrying out installation, servicing, maintenance, repair or decommissioning of electrical switchgear containing fluorinated greenhouse gases or recovery of fluorinated greenhouse gases from stationary electrical switchgear. Comes into force 1st July 2017.