A Surrey company has been sentenced for safety failings after a contractor was crushed to death at the London Gateway Port construction site in Essex.
An asbestos expert has been fined after workers under his supervision were exposed to potentially-deadly fibres at a college in Greater Manchester.
A Barking firm has been prosecuted for safety failings after an employee severed the tendons in his hand on an unguarded saw blade.
An air conditioning company has been fined after an apprentice engineer broke his arm when he fell three metres through a fragile plasterboard ceiling.
A Warwickshire company which manufactures car components has been fined after a worker was burned by caustic soda while leaning over a conveyor.
A Lincolnshire agricultural machinery manufacturer has been fined after employees were put at risk of developing asthma through the spraying of a hazardous chemical.
A North East glass firm has been fined after potentially exposing nearly 200 workers and visitors to dangerous asbestos fibres at its Consett premises.
A packaging firm has been fined after a worker severed the tip of a finger on a machine where a safety guard had been deliberately disabled.
A Dumfries company has been fined for safety failings after a 70 year-old worker fell more than four metres from a ladder at the firm’s animal-rendering plant in Motherwell.
The owner of a Leicestershire transport company has been sentenced for safety failings after a mechanic was killed during a jacking operation.
An Essex-based firm has been fined for repeated safety failings following three separate incidents in which workers were injured after becoming trapped in machinery.
A Croydon company that builds truck bodies has been prosecuted after a worker’s leg was crushed by a pack of six-metre steel sheets weighing almost 4 tonnes when it slid and fell during unloading.
On 7 March 2012 the former Minister for employment relations, consumer and postal affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb), announced through a written ministerial statement, a triennial...
The second annual report of the inter-departmental group on human trafficking is today being laid before Parliament.
The report is an assessment of the trends in human trafficking in the UK. It also sets...
I am announcing today the publication of reports by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) on the recent trial of operational freedoms at Heathrow airport.
The trial, which ended...