Reporting Accidents and Injuries in the Workplace
A recent case heard in Manchester Magistrates’ Court highlighted the importance of reporting accidents in the workplace. An employee of a home improvement company who was working on a garage roof fell nearly 4 metres onto a driveway. The worker was left with several injuries, including fractured ribs, arm, cheekbone and eye socket and a collapsed lung. The worker’s employer was fined £2,700 and ordered to pay costs of £1,000 for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2005 and a subsequent investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) discovered that the home improvement c
[…]Roofing Work News Roundup – April, 2018
Here at D-marc we’re in the business of making work at height, namely roofing work, safer with our innovative rooftop barrier solutions. As such, we keep a close eye on the news for stories about roof work and working at height in general so that we can provide our readers with useful and relevant information that will keep them up to date with what’s going on in our industry. Once a month, we’ll publish a roundup of the news that affects our sector in one easy place so that readers can get a quick overview of the most important happenings over the past month. If you have anything to add
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