health and safety executive
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Fleet Industry News 6 Oct 2015Reporting near misses will cut risk, says HSE
Fleets should adopt a near-miss reporting policy to reduce the risks faced by employees driving for work, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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Fleet Industry News 5 Oct 2015Road deaths and serious injuries are on the rise
Safety targets needed to reverse first increase in overall casualties since 1997
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News Article 19 Feb 2015Quarry operator fined after worker died in dumper truck fall
An Arbroath quarry operator has been fined for serious safety failings after a dumper truck driver died when his vehicle reversed over a stop block to the quarry floor below.
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Van News 22 Jan 2015Lothian Health Board fined after pensioner killed by van
Lothian Health Board has been fined £40,000 after a pensioner was killed by one of its vans as she crossed a clearly marked pedestrian route into Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital.
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Fleet Industry News 13 Jan 2015DHL in court after driver suffers life-changing injuries
Global courier firm DHL has been sentenced for safety failings after a driver was run over by his own vehicle at a depot in Bedfordshire.
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Fleet Industry News 23 Sep 2014Company investigated after at-work driver kills two cyclists
A company that employed a driver who fell asleep at the wheel and killed two charity cyclists could face criminal charges.
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Fleet Industry News 22 Sep 2014Construction company fined £100,000 after worker run-over
A major construction company has been fined for safety failings after a worker was critically injured when he was run over by a nine-tonne dumper truck.
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Fleet Industry News 22 Aug 2014Company fined £12,000 after reversing vehicle crushes employee
A pharmaceutical company has pled guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for failing to ensure the health and safety of an employee when a reversing lorry crushed an employee's head and chest resulting in severe injury.
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Fleet Industry News 18 Aug 2014
Firm fined £240,000 after driver crushed to death
A Stonehaven animal feed company has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death when a two-tonne, fully-loaded grain bin fell onto him from a forklift truck.
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Fleet Industry News 7 Aug 2014
Fleets review risk management policies after new HSE guidance
A renewed level of interest in risk management is being shown by fleets following the publication of revised Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance, reports GE Capital, Fleet Services.
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Fleet Industry News 1 Aug 2014
Haulage companies in court after driver paralysed
Two haulage companies have been sentenced for safety failings after an HGV driver was left paralysed from the chest down following an incident at a transport yard in Sandy, Bedfordshire.
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Fleet Industry News 25 Jul 2014
Costain sentenced for Parkway telehandler death
Global engineering specialist Costain has been ordered to pay more than £615,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed when a telehandler overturned during the construction of the Parkway development in Newbury.
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Fleet Industry News 16 Jul 2014
Safety failings led to worker’s death
A Slough construction firm and a bulldozer operator have been sentenced for serious safety failings after a worker was run over and killed while working on the M25 widening project.
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Tax and Legislation News 25 Jun 2014
Van maker in court over serious safety failings
A vehicle manufacturer has been told to pay nearly £180,000 in fines and costs for safety failings after a crane operator suffered severe crush injuries in a lifting operation at the company’s press shop in Luton.
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Van News 22 Jan 2014Garage owner sentenced for safety failings
The owner of a Berkshire car maintenance business has been sentenced for safety failings after reversing into and killing a customer in his van.
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Tax and Legislation News 13 Dec 2013Shropshire businessman fined for falsifying safety document
A Shropshire businessman, who supplies workplace vehicles and lifting equipment, has been fined for falsifying a safety document for a forklift truck.
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Tax and Legislation News 13 Dec 2013
Blackburn skip firm sentenced over young worker’s death
A Blackburn skip hire firm and its owner have been ordered to pay £80,000 in fines and costs after a 21-year-old worker was crushed to death.
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Fleet Industry News 22 Nov 2013
Firm fined £200,000 for safety failings
A wood recycling company has been sentenced for serious safety failings after a worker was killed after being struck by a loading vehicle and run over.
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Tax and Legislation News 25 Sep 2012
HSE to charge business for safety failures
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed that its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), will start on October 1, 2012.
