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• Safety breaches lead to fine for automotive firm and occupational health provider

  31/07/2020
  An employee working as a small to medium area repair technology (SMART) repairer at the PMS site in Doncaster, who regularly used handheld power tools to undertake small scale vehicle body work repairs, when he was diagnosed with HAVS in 2013, Sheffield Crown Court was told...

• BendPak two post vehicle lifts – safety issues relating to locking mechanisms

  15/06/2020
  Anyone using the BendPak two-post lift should act now...

• Arrangements for driver welfare and hours of work during the coronavirus outbreak

  30/05/2020
  Driver access to welfare facilities All drivers must have access to welfare facilities in the premises they visit as part of their work...

• SAFETY ALERT : Air suspension systems on vehicles

  20/05/2020
  HSE have investigated several serious incidents involving air suspension systems on vehicles...

• RIDDOR reporting of COVID-19

  07/04/2020
  If there is reasonable evidence that someone diagnosed with COVID-19 was likely exposed because of their work you must report this as an exposure to a biological agent using the case of disease report...

• Car retailer fined for exposing worker to the risk of developing occupational asthma

  17/02/2020
  A car retailer operating across the South East of England has been fined after a car bodywork sprayer developed occupational asthma...

• Car manufacturer prosecuted for serious safety breaches

  08/03/2019
  A car manufacturer has been fined after serious safety breaches relating to faulty vehicle lifts...

• Heightened cancer risk from welding fume exposure prompts HSE to tighten controls

  12/02/2019
  Control of the cancer risk will require suitable engineering controls for all welding activities that take place indoors, which includes local exhaust ventilation (LEV)...

• HSE- Change in Enforcement, all welding including mild steel welding fume.

  11/02/2019
  There is new scientific evidence from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer in humans...

• Company fined after workers exposed to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome

  18/09/2018
  The investigation found that the company failed in their duty to implement a safe system of work in order to control exposure to vibration...