“A health board is unlikely to face prosecution over whether up to 30 people were exposed to asbestos at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth.”
BBC News, 12th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Levels of self-harm and self-inflicted deaths were high and there was abusive language from staff to prisoners.”
The Independent, 10th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that George Collier should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Meg Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 5th August 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A company director faces a manslaughter charge after a three-year-old girl died when a wall collapsed on a footpath in Denbighshire.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers have been warned they risk inviting a raft of claims by loosening health and safety legislation.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd August 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Two companies have been fined a total of £75,000 after a man was dragged through a 5in (13cm) gap in machinery.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The National Trust was not to blame for the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy fatally crushed by a branch in woods in Norfolk, the High Court has decided.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Trainer Howard Johnson is appearing before a British Horseracing Authority inquiry on Wednesday to face horse welfare and doping charges.”
BBC News, 20th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A packaging firm has been fined £90,000 after two workers were seriously injured in a fireball at a factory in Cumbria.”
BBC News, 18th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A catering firm whose employee was badly burned when she fell into a pot of curry was not in breach of health and safety laws, inspectors have said.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two bills on the education system will be published by the Welsh Government, First Minister Carwyn Jones has said. He outlined Labour’s five-year legislative programme to Welsh assembly members on Tuesday.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The National Trust is being sued for damages after a boy was killed when a two-ton tree branch collapsed on to a school party at a stately home.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A shopfitting firm on Merseyside has been fined after one of its workers had his finger severed by a rotating saw.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two companies have been fined a total of £450,000 after a maintenance worker fell to his death at a power station.”
BBC News, 3rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two companies have admitted breaking health and safety laws after a worker survived being dragged through a gap in a machine the width of a CD case.”
BBC News, 2nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A custody officer who was bitten on the face by an HIV positive asylum seeker has been awarded more than £100,000 compensation.”
BBC News, 31st May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A firm has been fined £125,000 after admitting responsibility for the death of a man working on a Wiltshire farm.”
BBC News, 17th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR) was fined £3 million today for safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash which claimed seven lives.”
The Independent, 13th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR) faces a fine when it is sentenced in court tomorrow for safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash.”
The Independent, 11th May 2011
Source: : www.independent.co.uk
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