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28/02/2017

HSE TO MAKE COST RECOVERY DISPUTE PROCESS FULLY INDEPENDENT

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that it is to consult on proposals to make its cost recovery scheme dispute process fully independent.The scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI) was introduced in October 2012 to shift the cost of regulating workplace health and safety from the public purse to businesses which break the law and ensures the cost burden of HSE intervention is picked up by those companies and not taxpayers.If an inspector identifies serious health and safety failings ......

28/02/2017

BUTCHERS FINED AFTER WORKER SUFFERS HAND INJURIES

A butchers has been fined after a worker suffered deep lacerations to one his hands when working.Bristol Magistrates Court heard how the worker was cutting beef bones on a band saw at the time of the incident when he suffered deep lacerations to his left hand.The supplied safety devices on the band saw were not in use at the time of the incident as the worker had not been adequately trained to use them.An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found that the butchers had not provided t......

28/02/2017

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON MEAT INSPECTION

Recent media reports of contaminated meat do not give the complete picture on the condition of meat entering the food chain, or on the work done by the FSA to ensure that the meat we eat is safe.Our Meat Hygiene Inspectors and Official Veterinarians inspect every red meat and poultry carcase for visible contamination - 99.57% of them pass the test. The remaining 0.43% is rejected and passed back to the food business, and they have to rectify the problem. This is the work that our staff do day in......

08/02/2017

UPDATE UNIVERSITY’S CAFFEINE EXPERIMENT MISCALCULATION ALMOST KILLED TWO STUDENTS

A university’s failure to control a sports science experiment has cost it £400,000 after two students overdosed on caffeine.A group of second-year sports science students at the University of Northumbria was taking part in a practical exercise to study the effects of caffeine when the incident happened on 23 March 2015. To measure the effects the stimulant had on physical performance, one volunteer was to consume a non-caffeine solution that mixed water and orange juice, while two volunteers – 2......