NHS Trust fined after failing to follow window safety alert Medway NHS Foundation Trust has today been ordered the more than £61,000 in fines and costs after a patient died following a 5m fall from a first floor window at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham.Danny...
Site Safety Warning Over Fake Hard Hats February 11th, 2013 A leading safety manufacturer is urging contractors to check their site workers’ hard hats after a potentially lethal batch of poor-quality counterfeits was discovered. Experts at JSP are warning that the...
EMERGENCY services were called to remove a gas cylinder from a camper van which caught fire on the A38 in Somerset.Firefighters from Bridgwater were called out to a stretch of the road near the town on Sunday 3rd February.A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service...
HOMEOWNERS have been urged to make sure their chimneys are swept regularly after a spate of fires.Since Friday, January 18, there have been 15 chimney fires to which Avon Fire and Rescue Service have been called with incidents reported in Olveston, Bishopston,...
FIRE devastated a Patchway home after a mum suffered an epileptic fit while smoking a cigarette.Kay Foster and her three children have been left temporarily homeless after a fire ripped through her house at Rodway Road, Patchway on January 23.The blaze caused severe...
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 Important Changes to the Asbestos Regulations and how they affect working with asbestos cement products were made in April 2012. In practice the changes are fairly limited. They mean that some types of non-licensed work with...