If you are employed within the UK, it is essential to understand your rights and responsibilities in regards to health and safety law....

In the recent case of Cunningham v Rochdale Metropolitan Council (2021) the Court of Appeal gave judgment in a case involving the...

Protected disclosures Detriment Case Fitzmaurice v Luton Irish Forum EA-2020-000295-RN Facts In 2014, 2016 and 2017 F raised a number of...

COMPARATIVE HEALTH AND SAFETY I have now completed more than 20 international health and safety topics for publication. These have...

UNFAIR DISMISSAL: Automatically unfair: Health and safety activities In the recent case of Sinclair v Trackwork Ltd, the Employment...

Those who ridicule health and safety as “Elf ‘n’ Safety” and who argue for deregulation and a reduction in red tape, need to be aware of...

WORKERS: HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECTION Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order...

Most civil claims for compensation for personal injury, and many employment tribunal claims, are settled by compromise agreements before...

James Atkins and Trevor Atkins have been convicted of gross negligence manslaughter after a woman was electrocuted. In 2017 Deana Simpson...

Crosfield House Limited, a nursing home, has been fined following an incident in which a resident’s leg was repeatedly trapped in a bed...

Foreseeability Pearson v J Ray McDermott Diving International Inc (2009) P was employed by J. He was attending to a diver from a derrick...

Recent high levels of fines in health and safety prosecutions The highest reported fine in 2019 for health and safety offences was...

The relationship between health and safety and disability discrimination law is illustrated by a number of recent cases. Disability...

Control of workplace noise The Court of Appeal has recently given judgment in a case concerning hearing impairment suffered by an...

Fatal falls Caring Homes Healthcare Group Ltd, the owner and manager of the Coppice Lea Nursing Home in Surrey, was fined £450,000 in...

HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK, ETC. ACT 1974: LEADING CASES (7) Section 37 of the 1974 Act deals with offences by companies. It states, in...

Health and safety cases (6) Section 20, Health and Safety at Work, etc., Act 1974 Section 20 sets out, in detail, the powers of Health...

Health and Safety at Work Act leading cases (5) Section 6: Injury during trials of dummy mine Case: McKay v Unwin Pyrotechnics Ltd (1991)...

Health and Safety at Work Act leading cases (4) Reasonable practicability R v Nelson Group Services (Maintenance) Ltd (1999) N Ltd...

REAL RISK Death of child R v Porter (2008) P was the headmaster of a private school aged 3 to 16. The school had two playgrounds, access...