Bob the Builder needs a makeover – and for once, you really can blame health and safety rules. The cartoon character’s traditional yellow hard hat – a symbol of building sites across the country – is being quietly dropped. According to news reports, BuildUK – an industry body that represents some of the biggest contractors and trade […]

A worker has been fatally injured on the M1 smart motorway site in Northamptonshire. The victim, who was killed at junction 16 on Monday morning, is understood to be a subcontractor on the site, which is run as a Costain/Galliford Try joint venture. The site is part of a £65m scheme to boost capacity along the […]

The makers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens have been sentenced after failing to protect the actors and workers while on set during filming, after actor Harrison Ford was struck by a heavy hydraulic metal door on the set of the Millennium Falcon at Pinewood Studios.   Mr Ford suffered a broken leg and deep lacerations when […]

London Zoo Gorilla Helped Himself To Blackcurrant Squash A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found. Kumbuka, a western lowland silverback, made an “opportunistic” exit through unlocked doors, London Zoo added. The zoo said the gorilla […]

A gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo drank five litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash before being returned to his den, a report has found. Kumbuka, a western lowland silverback, made an “opportunistic” exit through unlocked doors, London Zoo added. The zoo said the gorilla got into a secure keepers’ area on discovery […]

HSE construction inspectors will be carrying out unannounced visits to sites where refurbishment projects or repair works are underway. This year the Initiative is being undertaken as a series of two week inspections across the country, beginning 3 October 2016 ending 4 November 2016. During this period inspectors will ensure high-risk activities, particularly those affecting […]

A man who was trapped under a lorry in a collision at Jaguar Land Rover’s plant in Solihull has died. The incident happened on Monday 26th September at the firm’s base off Lode Lane. The company have confirmed that the man who died was an employee with one of their suppliers. According to workers, he was […]

WA Management has recently welcomed Alice Fennell to the team. She is fresh out of university and ready to climb the ladder to being a Health and Safety Consultant! As you can imagine this is quite an undertaking, and one that she has decided to document, so you can all experience this journey as well! Here […]

Isaac Asimov gave us the basic rules of good robot behaviour: don’t harm humans, obey orders and protect yourself. Now the British Standards Institute has issued a more official version aimed at helping designers create ethically sound robots. The document, BS8611 Robots and robotic devices, is written in the dry language of a health and safety manual, but the […]

A fire extinguisher test in a bank’s data centre has gone wrong in an “unprecedented” manner, causing its cash machines, online banking operations and website to go offline. For much of Saturday, ING’s Romanian customers could not access their money. The bank said the discharge of its gas-based fire suppression system had caused”unexpected” damage to […]