Health and Safety
Recycling firm fined for crush injury
A metal recycling firm has been fined £8,000 after a worker’s hand was crushed as he attempted to clear a blockage on a magnet conveyor. European Metal Recycling Limited, of Alexandra Dock 1, Bootle, Merseyside...
Read MoreBuckinghamshire company fined £280,000 following death
A Buckinghamshire-based waste disposal company has been fined after a member of the public was crushed to death at the Civic Amenity site in Newbury. The prosecution followed a HSE investigation into Biffa Waste Services...
Read MoreScrap company fined £200,000 after lorry driver death
The owners of a scrap metal yard in Newport have been fined after a lorry driver died when a crushed car fell from a scrapheap. HSE prosecuted Sims Group UK Ltd, of Long Marston, Stratford...
Read MoreRR786 – Bioaerosol emissions from waste composting and the potential for workers’ exposure
Workers mechanically handling compost on site may be at risk of considerable exposure to bioaerosols depending on their work task, their proximity to the bioaerosol source and the control measures put in place. Bioaerosols were...
Read MoreWaste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) meeting minutes
Minutes of the Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) Forum meeting held on 22nd September 2009 at 10.00 hours, Defra, London. View WISH meeting minutes
Read MoreGuard-rail failure leads to near fatal fall for worker
A Black Country waste management firm has been fined £12,000 after a guard-rail gave way resulting in a worker falling nearly three metres, narrowly missing a crushing machine. AB Waste Management Ltd which is based...
Read MoreCentral interventions by lead inspectors to national waste management and recycling companies
This SIM describes plans to undertake central interventions with a number of national waste management and recycling companies commencing in 2009/10. Follow up work to the interventions is expected to occur in 2010/11 and...
Read MoreRecycling firm fined for flammable material used in arson attack
A York hazardous waste recycling company was today fined £40,000 for failing to safeguard flammable liquid that was used in an arson attack on the business. BCB Environmental Management Limited, based at Marston Business Park,...
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