Health, Safety, Ethical & Environmental
The latest news from the Stone Industry
Tom Cleary (above): Following new sentencing guidelines in February, firms are putting crisis management plans in place in case of a health & safety prosecution. The table below shows the guidelines for fines on small companies.
Measure and control vibration exposure – click here to read HSE guidance.
A picture taken of Walltopia's men on a roof. It cost the company a £500,000 fine.
£120,000 fine for firm after worker sprains ankles.
Unicef says India has 200,000 children working in quarries, many unpaid to pay off family debt. Stone Federation Great Britain intends to make ethical trading a condition of membership.
This is Stephen Thurgood-Perry, an Applications Engineer with Air Control Industries, in one of the company’s personal cleaning booths, where dust is blown off clothes and extracted through the floor of the booth.
Britain is safe and getting safer as a place to work, although there were two more deaths in the past year than the year before.
Avoid power cables when working on scaffolding.
Companies are warned to make sure all lifting gear is regularly checked and serviced.
Jane Buxey, Chief Executive of Stone Federation Great Britain, with Ian Smart from the Health & Safety Executive during the SHAD at Schlüter in April.
Kailash with his Nobel Peace Prize.
People die when the walls of excavations are not supported.