Headlines

• First Aid Tip of the Month - Crush Injuries
  Particular industries often have a higher risk of certain types of injuries than others. For example, those who work on a building site face far more chance of suffering a crush injury.
• UKCG has launched a revised H&S Training Standard
  UKCG has today launched a revised Health and Safety training standard that focuses on the level of health and safety training required by those who direct, manage, supervise or undertake construction related activities on UKCG sites.
• First Aid Tip of the Month
  How to deal with a heart attack. A heart attack is the most common life-threatening heart conditions in the UK. If you suspected someone was having a heart attack, what would you do?
• Worker buried alive when trench collapsed in Glasgow
  The death of a workman buried alive in a 3m deep trench was "unnecessary and preventable", a sheriff has ruled. Graeme Scott fell and "disappeared" under debris and soil in the trench where he was laying pipes in Glasgow in April 2008
• Winter first aid tips
  With winter upon us and parts of the country now experiencing snow, St John Ambulance shares some first aid tips on dealing with cold weather health emergencies. Here are some first aid tips on how to deal with some winter related accidents - sprains, fractures, head injuries, hypothermia, and frostbite.
• Consultation on scrapping health and safety rules
  The government is launching a consultation on the abolition of "large numbers" of health and safety rules following an independent review.
• St Paul's protesters call in their own safety expert and vow to stay put
  The protesters camping outside St Paul's are to call in an independent health and safety inspector. The cathedral closed its doors on Friday, for the first time since the Blitz, claiming that the activists' camp was unsafe.
• Man and boy rescued from mud pit in Edinburgh
  A man and a boy he tried to rescue are recovering after being caught in a mud pit on an Edinburgh building site.
• Terrified workers down tools after deathtrap alert on Scottish Parliament roof
  Emergency site visits were arranged on Friday after contractors refused to carry out maintenance work on the roof claiming it is dangerous for them and the public.
• HSE Proposal for Cost Recovery
  In March this year the government announced a package of measures aimed at reforming the health and safety system. One part of that package was the government policy to allow the Health and Safety Executive ("HSE") to recover its costs of regulation where there was a "serious material breach", on the basis that it was reasonable for the organisation in breach to bear such costs rather than the tax payer, it would provide a deterrent and level out the playing field between those organisations which comply with their health and safety duties and those which don't.
• Offices are turned into flats
  CDM Scotland were involved as the CDM Coordinator for this £400k project that transformed empty Glasgow offices into new homes offering independent living for people with physical and learning difficulties.
• Health and safety 'excuse' for unpopular decisions
  Councils and companies are using health and safety rules as an excuse to make "unpopular decisions" banning low-risk activities, a watchdog says.
• Mansfield firm fined over roof fall injury
  A Nottinghamshire firm has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 in fines and costs after a man fell through a roof.
• 10 things you should know about Legionnaires' Disease and its prevention
• Deadly Blast Site Was Illegal Alcohol Factory
  Five men have been killed after a huge fireball ripped through an industrial building, which police said was apparently being used to produce alcohol illegally.
• Directors charged after worker roof fall death
  Three company directors have been charged with manslaughter after an employee fell through a roof in Greater Manchester.
• Woman 'killed by barbecue fumes' in tent in Norfolk
  A woman found dead in a tent at a Norfolk campsite is now thought to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a charcoal barbecue.
• Asbestos Awareness Training
  CDM Scotland will be running a 2 hour Asbestos Awareness Training session in our training centre in Ayr, on the 4th July 2011
• REPORT IT, DON’T IGNORE IT
  From the 12 September 2011, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is going electronic for the reporting of injuries and incidents. Whilst the usual telephone system will continue to be used for the notification of fatal and major incidents and injuries, all other reportable work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations 1995) will move to an online system.
• Accidents more likely for workplace new starters
  Statistics published by HSE show how much higher the risk of having an accident is for new starters, compared to those who have been working for longer. Analysis of investigated accidents to vulnerable migrant/foreign workers (fatal and selected non-fatal) in the construction sector reinforces this statement.