Workplace injury lawyers at Irwin Mitchell have welcomed the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s calls for more to be done to improve the reporting of work-related road traffic accidents. Work-related RTA reporting improvements backed - Full Story »
Two recent Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecutions and another incident have put the issue of falls from height back in the spotlight as a serious concern, according to work accident lawyers at Irwin Mitchell. Further work accident cases raise fall from height concerns - Full Story »
Workplace injury lawyers are calling on employers to do everything they can to protect workers from harm, after new research by the Health and Safety Executive highlighted that 173 people were killed in accidents at work during 2011/12. HSE figures ‘sounds a warning to employers over workplace safety’ - Full Story »
A defence company has been fined £376,000 in relation to safety failings which led to a fatal accident at work at its factory in Hampshire in June 2006. WDS fined over fatal work accident in Hampshire - Full Story »
Three companies have been fined in relation to separate accidents at work in which employees were hurt as a result of falls from height. Work accident prosecutions put falls from height in spotlight - Full Story »
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