Author Archives: Veritas Consulting
Dangers on the Farm – Employee Fined after Accident
Working in agriculture comes with high health and safety risks. Quad bikes are often used to cover large areas of land in short time periods, much faster than tractors, but they come with dangers. Over tipping is easy especially on … Continue reading
Do You Do Everything Possible to Prevent Accidents with Vehicles?
Vehicles in the workplace can pose deadly threats to your employees. This can be seen when looking at one of the prosecution cases brought by the Health and Safety Executive this week. A company was fined after one of their … Continue reading
Tree Felling Accident Costs Employee His Life
A task felling trees went horribly wrong when Christopher Fox was stood on a tractor being used to try and control the position the tree fell. Unfortunately the tree took an unexpected direction. This led to the trunk hitting the … Continue reading
Workers Lives Put At Risk – Are You Ensuring Your Employees Safety?
As an employer it is down to you to do everything you can to reduce the risks for your employees. This week affirm of dry cleaners based in Bedford have been prosecuted for not following their legal duties. Their employees’ … Continue reading
Leicester Firmed Fined After Fall from Height
One of the partners of a Leicestershire food company, Simtom Food Products, has been fined by the Health and Safety Executive this week after a worker was injured in a fall. An unidentified 18 year old man was told to … Continue reading
