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Friday, 27 February 2009

Laing O'Rourke fined 90k after worker injured Laing O'Rourke has been hit with 90,000 in fines and costs after aworker was seriously injured in a fall on the 1 billion Liverpool Onescheme in August, 2007.The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said the top five contractorhad "failed to make adequate risk assessments and plan a safesystem of work" on the project Europe's largest regenerationdevelopment.

Liverpool Crown Court heard employee William Taylor fell more than3m during the construction of concrete stairs inside one of the mainapartment blocks on the project.

HSE principal inspector Nic Rigby said Mr Taylor sustained multipleserious head and other injuries and narrowly escaped falling threefloors to the base of the building. The court was told that two otherworkers also escaped injury whilst working in the same unprotectedarea.

Mr Rigby said: "This prosecution should act as a warning to all thoseinvolved in the management of construction work. It was down tochance alone that this incident did not result in a fatality. That riskwould have been avoided had the planning and management of thework being carried out not been so deficient.

He added: "The accident occurred because the company failed to

make adequate risk assessments and plan a safe system of work.This accident happened on the third floor of the building.

"Had the accident not occurred this same system of work would havebeen repeated on every one of the 12 floors of the building. A fall fromthat height would clearly have had much more serious consequences."

A Laing O'Rourke spokesman said the company "has learned and willcontinue to learn lessons from this incident".

He said: "Laing O'Rourke Construction has been and will continue tobe fully committed to the health and safety of all its employees,contractors and the general public."

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The company which was fined 80,000 and ordered to pay 10,000in court costs pleaded guilty to a breach under the Health andSafety at Work etc Act.

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Copyright Emap 2009 - all rights reserved.at 07:42 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , f a l l f rom he igh t , f ine , head in jur ies , HSE ,management , r i s k a s s e s s m e n t s

Man dies in chain saw accident BELCHERTOWN Police say a self-employed logger and father offive from Belchertown was killed in a chain saw accident in nearbySouth Hadley.

South Hadley police say 56-year-old Marc Sugrue was cutting a largelimb from a tree on Wednesday when the chain saw he was usingkicked back and cut into his neck.

Paramedics who responded to the scene found Sugrue suspendedfrom a safety harness about 30 feet in the air. He was pronounceddead at the scene.

He leaves his wife, Janis, and five daughters ranging in age from 17to 30.

The incident remains under investigation.

Joe Koslik, who is married to one of Sugrue s daughters, tells TheDaily Hampshire Gazette that his father-in-law was a hard worker whoadored his daughters and treated him like a son.

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Copyright 2009 Associated Press.at 07:38 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , cha insaw , f a t a l i t y , t r e e , USA

Bayer CropScience cited for alleged health and safety violations OHSA officials say the August 2008 blast that killed two workers waslinked to Bayer CropScience's "failure to conduct proper hazardanalysis."

Federal regulators have cited Bayer CropScience for alleged healthand safety violations they said contributed the death of two workersduring a plant explosion in Institute Aug. 28.

Bayer CropScience s failure to conduct the proper hazard analysis ofits Methomyl Unit and failure to properly prepare for emergencies left

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employees exposed to unnecessary risk and contributed to thisunfortunate tragedy, Jeffrey Funke, director of Occupational Safetyand Health Administration s Charleston area office, said in a newsrelease issued Thursday.

The citations carry a proposed $143,000 in fines $73,000 forserious violations and $70,000 for repeat violations.

Last year, a large explosion ripped through the Bayer CropScienceplant, resulting in a fireball that witnesses said could be seen formiles.

Employee Barry Withrow was killed in the explosion. His co-worker,Bill Oxley, was severely injured and later died at the West PennHospital burn unit in Pittsburgh.

OSHA inspectors were on the site the next day. According to theagency, the company was guilty of several serious violations,including failing to properly train employees on specific safety andhealth hazards and failing to ensure employees use of safetyequipment.

Nick Crosby, the company s Institute site manager, said in a preparedstatement that Bayer s internal investigation is still ongoing.

We will be studying (the alleged violations) thoroughly and dealingwith them appropriately, he said. Our ultimate goal is to ensure we

are operating our entire facility as safely as possible.

The company has 15 business days to inform OSHA whether it willcontest the violations.

State and local officials have criticized plant managers for notproviding emergency responders information about what was takingplace at the plant, saying they couldn t make a conclusion whetherthe public near the site was in danger as the disaster unfolded.

As a result, Gov. Joe Manchin has asked state lawmakers to passlegislation requiring plants and other industrial facilities to put in place

plans to contact emergency responders when emergencies arise.Source .

Copyright 2009 West Virginia Media. All rights reserved.at 07:36 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: f ine , hazard , OSHA , r i sk , r i s k a s s e s s m e n t s , USA

Government urged to act to support mesotheliom a victims A r a n ge o f e v e n t s w i l l t a k e p l a c e t h r o ug h o ut t h e U Ktoday (27 Februa ry ) to m ark Ac t ion Meso t he l ioma Day2009 and ra i se awareness o f t he a sbes tos -re l a t edcanc e r, w h ich a ffec t s and k i l l s t housands o f peopleeve ry yea r.

The campaign is organised by the British Lung Foundation, which, onthe inaugural Day in 2006, delivered the Mesothelioma Charter to 10Downing Street. Signed by 14,000 people the Charter calls forimproved care and treatment for mesothelioma patients, better

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protection for employees, and more funding for research.

The Day is supported by Unite the union, which is calling for millionsto be invested in research to treat mesothelioma sufferers, andsupport their families. Said joint general secretary, Derek Simpson:This horrific disease, caused mainly by exposure to asbestos, hasbeen rife within industries in which our members have traditionallyworked, such as engineering, construction, ship-building, andrailways. We will continue to fight for those who have been affected toensure they receive adequate compensation, but our fight will notstop there. We want to make sure adequate resources are available

to find better medical treatments and, hopefully, a cure.

The union wants the Government to provide funding for a NationalCentre for Asbestos-Related Disease to keep the UK in line with otherwestern countries. Chair of the British Mesothelioma Interest Group,consultant thoracic surgeon John Edwards, said: Researchers aredesperate for funds to develop life-saving treatments. Mesotheliomais far and away the least-researched of the top 20 cancers in the UK.Funding for a UK National Centre for Asbestos-Related Diseases is apriority. Such a virtual institution would encourage collaboration andstimulate research to generate future treatments to prolong and savelives.

Industrial disease specialists Irwin Mitchell Solicitors is also urging the

Government to create a central insurance fund to help providesupport for those suffering from mesothelioma, and otheroccupational diseases. Roger Maddocks, partner of the firm s NorthEast office, called for the establishment of an Employers LiabilityInsurance Bureau (ELIB), which would give workers protection similarto the Motor Insurers Bureau, which pays out compensation claimsfor road users hit by uninsured and untraced drivers.

He added: With all mesothelioma claims, time is of the essence it isa fatal and vicous disease that usually kills its victims within 12months and a database of insurers would help speed up the claimprocess. The ELIB would provide a vital last resort in those caseswhere an insurer cannot be traced.

Cases of mesothelioma in the UK are expected to peak in 2015, witha death rate of 2450 people.

For a moving account of how mesothelioma affected one man s life,see SHP s feature Mesothe l ioma: Bob s s t o r y

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Copyright 2004 UBM Information.at 07:31 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: asbes tos , c a n c e r , d i sease , ELIB , h e a l t h , l ung c a n c e r , SH P

One in three military deaths due to w eak safety procedures A third of deaths in the British military occur as a result of safetyfailures, the Ministry of Defence has admitted.

Minutes from a MoD board meeting last year, leaked to TheIndependent on Sunday, reveal that nearly 800 service personnel

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have been killed over the past 10 years, in accidents ranging from carcrashes to electric shocks.

The minutes quote MoD official, Sir Ian Andrews, who warned hispeers: Examination of the figures on deaths in the Armed Forcesbetween 2001 and 2008 showed that one in three of the total numberrecorded was caused by health and safety failures. . . Analysis of thedata on fatalities, which, overall, had worsened during the reportingperiod, suggested the department had to improve significantly.

According to figures seen by the newspaper, 201 military servicemen

and women died in 2007, with 73 defined asdeaths due to violence

,including those killed in hostilities. However, 80 deaths were

attributable to accidents, the vast majority of which were the result ofroad-traffic incidents.

The figures will be a source of concern to the Ministry, given theCorporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act removed itscrown immunity to prosecution over work-related deaths whereserious health and safety breaches are involved.

In the run-up to the Act gaining Royal Assent, Colonel Chris Manningtold the IOSH Conference in 2007 that it was imperative for themilitary to take on the challenge presented by the new law, and makeefforts to ensure it was as well prepared as possible.

He added: We can do better in relation to industrial accidents, and itis entirely reasonable that we should be prosecuted under the law if agross breach results in someone s death. . . [W]e cannot afford tohave avoidable accidents, or we re doing the enemy s job for them.

However, the moment we say that the safety issue becomes moreimportant than business output itself, we lose confidence of those weare seeking to influence. We have to acknowledge that soldiering is adangerous business, and that we are there to deliver violence to apotential battlefield.

Commenting on The Independent on Sunday s report, an MoDspokesperson said: The MoD takes all available measures to

minimise risks through provision of the best equipment, training andprocedures for our personnel. Military life can never be risk-free andalthough we make every effort to minimise risks, we can neverremove them entirely.

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Copyright 2004 UBM Information.at 07:29 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , f a t a l i t y , IOSH , management , MoD , r i sk a s sessmen t s

No charges after boy crushed by tree The HSE will be bringing no safety charges against the National Trustafter a young boy was killed by a falling tree in one of its parks.

But the Executive has refused to comment on whether the prospect ofattracting potential negative media publicity, with regard to what somesee as over-excessive health and safety regulations, influenced thedecision.

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Eight-year-old Timothy Sutton was killed on New Year s Day 2005,while walking through Dunham Massey Park in Altringham. He wascrushed under a rotting beech tree, which was blown over by highwinds as he walked past.

The regulator decided against a prosecution of the National Trust,claiming a conviction was unlikely. An HSE spokesperson said: Thiswas a complex case, and HSE s conclusion that there was no realisticprospect of a conviction for any breaches of health and safety lawreflects the opinions sought from expert witnesses and legal advisors.

However, the HSE recognises that decision was difficult andunwelcome for Timothy s family.

The National Trust s chairman, and former editor of The Times, SirSimon Jenkins, is an outspoken critic of what he perceives as acompliance culture brought about by the introduction of a whole hostof business-related regulations, such as health and safety. He alsovented his anger after the property manager at Dunham Massey Parkwas brought in for questioning following the accident. In an interviewwith The Daily Telegraph published earlier this month, he said:People must be liberated from a total risk-aversion mentality. Was itright that a property manager should be arrested because of a freakaccident in which a young boy was killed by a falling branch from oneof the Trust s five million trees?

The Trust has now welcomed the Executive s decision not toprosecute. It claimed that it has tree-management procedures inplace, which are above the legal requirements demanded by healthand safety legislation . A spokesperson from the Trust added: Wewelcome the conclusion that there was nothing to suggest that safetystandards did not meet legal and statutory requirements. We continueto extend our sympathy to Timothy s family and friends and remaindeeply saddened by the accident.

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Copyright 2004 UBM Information.at 07:07 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , f a t a l i t y , HSE , Nat iona l Trus t , t r e e

Physios w arn of lack of progress on RSI The lack of progress in tackling the problems of repetitive strain injury(RSI) in the last six years means that the problem costs employeesaround 300m a year.

This is according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, whichpoints to HSE figures for 2007/08 that reveal that more than a third(81,000) of RSI cases were reported in the last 12 months. This is just6000 shy of the 87,000 new cases reported in 2001/02, when 222,000people in work were found to be suffering from the condition.

An estimated 2.8m working days were lost in 2007-08 due to RSI,with the average affected person taking 13.3 days off sick. This addedup to around 300m per year in lost working time, sick pay andadministration, said the Society.

As a result, it is now calling on the Government to make it a statutoryduty for employers to provide occupational-health services, and to

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incentivise employers to provide such services through measuressuch as tax relief. It also wants the Government to promote thebusiness and social case for providing occupational-health services,with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of early intervention.

Pauline Cole, a CSP spokesperson and member of the Association ofChartered Physiotherapists in Occupational Health and Ergonomics,said: There is a clear opportunity for employers to do more to provideoccupational-health services, both with regard to prevention of RSIand rehabilitation.

The CSP is calling on the Government to both encourage andenforce measures to address this with legislation, combined with

incentives and best-practice guidance. We may then, after thefrustration of many years of no progress, begin to see some reductionin the rates of this almost completely preventable condition.

According to analysis by the Labour Research Department, on behalfof the CSP, the jobs where workers are most likely to develop amusculoskeletal upper-limb, or neck, disorder are: process, plant andmachine operatives (1.21 per 100 workers); skilled construction andbuilding trades (1.14 per 100 workers); and health and social welfareassociate professionals (1.10 per 100 workers).

Source .

Copyright 2004 UBM Information.at 06:57 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: hea l th , HSE , i n ju ry , RSI

Thursday, 26 February 20 09

HSE launches new W ork-related stress w ebsite the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new versionof the work-related stress website, with a range of helpful advice,online tools and guidance to help you tackle stress in your workplace.

For those familiar with the old site, this revised version is designed tobe more accessible and provides tailored messages for differentaudiences.

On the site you will find a brand new self-assessment tool for linemanagers to test their skills.

Please visit h t tp : / /www.hse .gov.uk / s t r e s s / index .h tm to findout more.

at 09:23 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: gu idance , hea l th and sa fe ty , HSE , s t r e s s

Teen dies after skateboa rding accident ARVADA - The Ralston Valley High School student hospitalized aftera skateboarding accident Wednesday has died.

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Susan Medina with the Arvada Police Department believes the teenwas holding the driver's side door of a Mustang while the drivertraveled westbound on 85th Avenue. The victim was run over by thecar at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the 12100 block of 85th.

The 15-year-old victim, who was not wearing a helmet, was taken to alocal hospital with multiple injuries. He died early Thursday morning.His name has not been released.

Police are investigating the events of the case.

The 16-year-old driver of the Mustang was taken to the policedepartment to be questioned but it is unclear what charges might befiled. The driver's name has not been released.

This is the third skateboarding accident resulting in death since 2007.In 2008, 17-year-old Austin Ayers died at St. Anthony Central afterbeing hit by a Jeep Wrangler he was holding onto while riding his longboard. The accident happened in the 6500 block of Oak Street inArvada.

In 2007, Heritage High School senior John Nicolette was killed afterholding onto a car while skateboarding near the school in Littleton.

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Monday, 23 February 2009

Work ers feel bosses ignoring health and safety Health and safety has become less of a concern to the nation semployers as a result of the recession, workers believe.

A survey by National Accident Helpline found that 62 per cent ofemployees believed that their employer was placing less emphasis onhealth and safety.

Just over a third 38 per cent believed that their employerremained as committed to workplace safety as ever.

The figures come just days after the Health and Safety Executive(HSE) revealed that 34 million work days 1.4 days for every Britishworker are lost annually as a result of work-related illness or injury.

National Accident Helpline legal director John Campbell said:Investing time and money to make your workplace as safe aspossible may seem less important during a recession, but thesefigures show that there is a financial incentive to do so.

Employees who have accidents because of poor workplace safetyhave every right to claim for compensation.

Cutting corners on health and safety is a false economy as there willbe costs to the business through lost man hours and sick pay. Thiscould cost the business more in the long run

Source .

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at 02:14 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: c o m p e n s a t i o n , hea l th and sa fe ty , HSE

Compensation culture in UK grossly exaggerated, says new research New research shows that the majority of people have modestexpectations for compensation following injuries at work, castingdoubt on the widely-made claim that Britain has developed acompensation culture.

In fact, Hubbard Pegman & Whi tney (HPW ) Solicitors says itsown experience is that people often stoically avoid seekingcompensation for injuries, even for modest amounts, in case they aremade redundant as punishment by their employer.

HPW s research (undertaken by YouGov and based on arepresentative sample of nearly 2,000 adults) reveals that while over

90% expect some form of monetary compensation after an injury atwork, people typically under-estimate how much they would receiveand very few over-estimate, even though awards can be surprisinglymodest.

For instance:

Typical compensation awarded for an arm fractured at work is in theregion of 6,000 (4,000 for the injury and around 2,000 for loss ofearnings for an average earner) however, 44% of adults expected2,000 or less, 61% estimated under 5,000 and only 4% expected abumper payout of over 10,000.

The typical compensation awarded for a leg broken at work is

8,650 (5,750 for the injury and 2,900 for loss of earnings for anaverage earner) however, 46% of adults expected 5,000 or less,while only 12% expected more than 10,000.

The typical compensation awarded for permanent blindness in oneeye from an injury at work is at least 31,500 (with additional sums forloss of earnings while recovering and further compensation, set bythe court, for the impact on the victim s lifestyle) however, 27% ofadults expected 20,000 or less and only 21% expected asignificantly higher payout of over 100,000.

Only when you get to really serious injuries do people, notsurprisingly, expect very substantial compensation. The typicalcompensation awarded for permanent loss of the use of both legs

from an injury at work is at least 140,000 and generally substantiallyhigher (depending on loss of earnings and effect on lifestyle) however, 20% of adults expected 100,000 or less, while 42%expected over 200,000 (which in most cases people would get).

Charlotte Pegman, Managing Partner of Hubbard Pegman & Whitney , the Solicitors which carried out the research said: Notonly are most compensation awards unspectacular, but most peopleactually have very modest expectations typically in-line withaverage awards or even expecting substantially less. Our researchindicates to us that most people only want fair and reasonablecompensation when they are injured at work.

"While large compensation awards for seemingly minor injuries and

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slights rightly attract hostile media attention, the reality is that awardsfor most workplace injuries often nasty ones are generally muchmore modest."

Source .at 02:10 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , c o m p e n s a t i o n , i n ju ry

74 die in mine explosion in China China s mining industry suffered the highest death toll in severalmonths an explosion in the Tunlan Coal Mine in China s ShanxiProvince early Sunday, February 22, killed 74 and injured 114.

The coal mine belongs to a major mining company in China, theShanxi Xishan Coal and Electricity Power Co., Ltd.

A gas explosion suddenly took place at approximately 2:23 a.m. onSunday, when 436 miners were working underground.

According to the news release by the State Administration of WorkSafety, more than 300 miners were able to flee the blaze, yet manystill died due to carbon monoxide poisoning or burn injuries, and morethan 100 injured were hospitalized with five in critical condition.

Unlike other small illegal mining companies in China that areconstantly plagued by mining disasters, Shanxi Xishan Coal andElectricity Power Co., Ltd. is a big name in China with an annual coalyield of five million tons and zero fatalities since 2004. This stunnedChina s high level officials.

Thus far, 68 hyperbaric chambers in Taiyuan City have been put inoperation for treating the victims, four medical teams, and 40-plusambulances have rushed or are on the way to the disaster area.

Source .at 01:15 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: China , exp los ion , f a t a l i t y , in jury , m i n e , mining

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

The cost of employee m isunderstanding Employees no t fu l ly under s t and ing the i r ro l e o r c o m p a n y p o l ic i e s c a n p r e se n t a s i g n i f i c a n t t h r e a t t o ac o m p a n y ' s c o m p l i an c e w i t h H e a l t h a n d Sa f e t y l a w ,p a r t i c u l a r ly i n l i g h t o f t h e r e c e n t i n t r o d u c t i o n o f t h eHea l th and Sa fe ty Offences Ac t 2008 .

The much anticipated Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 hasintroduced tougher penalties to ensure businesses are compliant withthe law and should act as a wake up call to any chief executives whoremain complacent.

The Act has significantly increased the maximum fine for health and

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safety breaches from 5,000 to 20,000. Notably, serious offenderscan now be imprisoned for up to two years as well as receive fines,and certain offences, which are currently heard by Magistrates, cannow be heard in both the Magistrates and Crown Courts.

Preven t ing employee m isunder s t and ing

Companies must make sure every individual within their organisationcomplies with the health and safety requirements in order to fulfil theirrightful obligations as an employer and avoid the wrath of the courts.However, health and safety is open to the risk of employee

misunderstanding, which occurs when an employee means to do aob correctly but possesses insufficient information and/or skill to doso.

Research by IDC that Cognisco commissioned earlier this yearentitled, Counting the Cost of Employee Misunderstanding, revealedthe extent to which employee misunderstanding impacts health andsafety. It found that more than one in four UK and US companies haspaid out personal injury claims and industrial tribunal settlements as adirect consequence of employee misunderstanding. Furthermore,nearly 100 per cent of the companies surveyed revealed thatemployee misunderstanding exposed them to the risk of personneland public injuries, with 14 per cent admitting they risked workplaceor public fatalities.

A tangible example of employee misunderstanding was the CalthermUK case in December where the company was fined 13,000 after anindustrial oven fell on an employee's foot, breaking three bones anddislocating five toes. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectorWayne Owen blamed insufficient safeguards and a lack of riskassessment for the accident. He said: "Lack of information,instruction, training and planning for the movement of such heavyequipment, coupled with an unsuitable means of transport, allcontributed to an unsafe system of work which led to the accident."

Measur ing conf idenc e and compe t ence

However, companies can avoid the same fate as Caltherm by

measuring the degree to which their staff understands theorganisation's health and safety policies via employee assessments.These knowledge management and development solutions measurethe levels of knowledge in the areas relevant to health and safety andidentify tangible weaknesses. In addition, these assessments shouldalso measure attributes such as confidence and competence whencomplying with the health and safety requirements.

The benefit of assessing an employee's understanding andconfidence are two-fold. Firstly, companies can make informedchoices about how to improve health and safety compliance.

Secondly, where knowledge gaps are identified, companies canimplement training more effectively by targeting it to where it is mostneeded. This also helps reduce costs as it is tailored to theindividual's learning and development needs, unlike a "one size fitsall" approach.

Snapsho t s o f compl ianc e

Once assessments are completed and employee trainingprogrammes rolled out, the results can be benchmarked against anagreed standard. This enables the company to place individuals on apredetermined scale depending on score and associated level of risk.This provides a snapshot of compliance for any given timescale andcan be used as an essential component of validation and observancewith the new legislation.



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An added benefit of measuring staff understanding is the identificationof 'knowledge custodians' in your firm who can act as health andsafety champions or be highlighted as examples of best practice.There tend to be clusters of these individuals within everyorganisation; they are the people that the rest of your employees goto with questions when no one else knows the answer. Knowledgecustodians are useful advocates and can be utilised for health andsafety compliance by providing ongoing training and mentoring forunderperforming employees.

An employee assessment program should be a vital part of risk

management and compliance strategies, as well as a key talentmanagement tool. Careful assessment of these factors will help toensure that any strategy, health and safety or other, is implementedas effectively as possible. This will protect your company's staff,customers and business reputation.

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Key training issues for 2009 Neal Stone t akes a look a t t he f ac t o r s he be l i eves wi l lin f luence t r a in ing cho ic es fo r the yea r ahead

With the UK economy experiencing a downturn and businessesfighting hard to remain competitive, directors and managers will bedetermined to ensure that health and safety training adds real valueto a business rather than just ensuring compliance with the law.

Over recent years the Br i t i sh Sa fe ty Counc i l has seen a'stepchange' in the attitudes of those who determine the health andsafety training needs of their organisations.

Not too long ago, training budgets were routinely set without a fullneeds analysis of the staff competences that are necessary to ensurethat risks to workers' health and safety are properly controlled. Forsome it was simply a question of undertake the training, any training,and tick the box.

Evidence suggests that this is very different now and with the currenteconomic climate as it is there are a number of key issues thatbusiness leaders and managers need to consider with regards to stafftraining for 2009.

Training Needs Analysis (TNA) is becoming more important andduring 2009 we will see more evidence that all organisations private, public and voluntary - are demanding training that meets thepersonal needs of the staff member to carry out their role and safelycomplete the tasks assigned to them.

In 2009, directors and managers will want to have clear evidence thatthe health and safety training being provided is adding value to thebusiness and that there are tangible outputs including improvementsin performance. Clearly training may not be approved unless thebusiness is convinced that it supports its efforts to comply with the lawwhile contributing to clear business aims.

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Training must be cost effective. 2009 might see a move towards in-house training being provided by own staff rather than using externaltraining providers or using other methods to develop the necessaryskills and competence. Organisations will want to ensure that the endresult of equipping staff with the necessary skills and competence isachieved in the most cost effective way.

The BSC has recognised that for both organisations and individuals,there needs to be a more flexible approach to how and when trainingis carried out. This is especially true of qualification type trainingcourses where the study is often carried out over a prolonged period

of time. 2009 will see a move towards training organisations offeringthese types of courses in a wide range of different ways to meet thepersonal needs of individuals and companies. There is likely to beincreasing demand for e-learning and other 'modern' methods oftraining, such as blended and distance learning, all of which offergreater flexibility and potential cost and time savings - for bothdelegates and their employers.

The end result from training was never considered as important as isit today. Managers in 2009 are far clearer about what the expectedoutcome from the training is whether to learn a skill, gain knowledgeor increase motivation and that there is in place a mechanism totest or measure the extent to which the outcome has been achieved.It is predicted that there will be a greater obligation on training

providers and business managers to assist in this way by building inclearer measures of training outcomes.

Flex ib le l ea rn ing

To meet the increasing demand for flexible training, the BSC will bedeveloping a range of e-learning health and safety courses during2009. And to help safety professionals on limited budgets keep up tospeed with the latest developments, we will be running a fullprogramme of free seminars delivered by experts and leaders onmajor health and safety issues and challenges at the Health andSafety '09 exhibitions taking place at Sandown Park on 24th and 25thFebruary and at the Reebok Stadium Bolton in October.

Neal Stone is head of policy and public affairs at the Br i t i sh Sa fe ty Counc i l (BSC )

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Welder dies after explosion BOARDMAN, Ore. -- A welder has died in an industrial accident atConAgra Foods Lamb Weston in Boardman, authorities said Tuesday.

Kevin Paul Gregerson, 21, of Hermiston, was reportedly buried indebris after an explosion inside a tank, reported The East Oregonian.

Boardman fire and police departments, along with the Morrow CountySheriff's Office responded to a call at 12:47 p.m. Monday at thepotato processing plant at 600 Columbia Ave. N.E. A small confinedspace rescue team also was called.

Gregerson's body was recovered just after 8 p.m., the newspaper

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reported.

Stephanie Childs, spokeswoman for ConAgra Foods, said Gregersonworked for one of the company's contractors. He reportedly workedfor Northwest Metal Fabricators.

"We're in the process of doing everything we can to understand whathappened," Childs said. "We're definitely looking into the matter. Weconsider this to be a very unfortunate incident and extend our deepestsympathies to the family."

Melanie Mesaros, spokeswoman for Oregon Occupational Health andSafety Administration, said officials were at the tank Tuesdayinvestigating.

Mesaros said officials would generally look into what kind of trainingand supervision the employee had. They would also look at thecompany's safety policies.

Oregon OSHA has conducted three scheduled inspections at theBoardman plant since 2002, Mesaros said. No violations were foundin April 2006.

A serious violation related to machine guards was reported in a July2006 inspection that resulted in a $780 penalty.

In September 2007, the company received an "other than serious"citation. Violations are listed as serious or other than serious,Mesaros said.

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Businesses w arned against making cutbacks As the recession tightens and businesses across the UK look at waysof reducing costs in order to stay afloat, the British Safety Council(BSC) and a leading lawyer in the field of personal injury have issueda stark warning to business leaders that reducing spend on controllingrisks to workplace health and safety could endanger lives and costcompanies an average of 30,000 per claim along with significantreputational damage.

"There is a danger with the credit crunch that firms will cut back onhealth and safety planning and implementation, leading to anincrease in personal injuries at work," says Grahame Aldous QC of 9Gough Square Chambers, "This may provide more work for lawyers,but the reputational and internal ethos damage to firms may beconsiderable if they let this area of their operations go.

Despite the myth of a compensation culture, personal injury claimshave been reducing, but firms should not be surprised if that reversesif they let health and safety go to cut costs." Research conducted lastyear by the BSC, revealed that despite long established laws onhealth and safety, two out of three UK employees have had little or nosafety training, while barely half of their bosses had arranged a safetyaudit or had a health and safety management system in place.

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Harry Potter film set reopens after stuntm an accident The set of the latest Harry Potter film has been allowed to reopenafter an accident which left a stuntman badly injured, the Health andSafety Executive has confirmed.

David Holmes, a stunt double for the film's star, Daniel Radcliffe,remains in hospital with a serious back injury after the accident onJanuary 28.

The set was cordoned off after the accident but the HSE has now

agreed for it to reopen, a spokesman said."We have carried out a site visit and the set has now reopened," headded.

"The investigation is ongoing."

It is understood Mr Holmes, who is originally from Romford but lives inLeigh-on-Sea, Essex, was practising an aerial sequence when hewas injured.

He is receiving treatment at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital,in Stanmore, north west London, which counts treatment for acutespinal injuries among its specialities.

A statement released on behalf of Mr Holmes's family after theaccident thanked people for their thoughts and prayers and added:"We are trusting in the expertise of the medical staff who are caringfor David."

Some 160 get well messages have been posted on a Facebook pageset up by Mr Holmes's brother Adam. The group David's Get WellWishes has more than 480 members.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is due to be released inthe summer, is in production at the Hertfordshire studios.

According to the Daily Mirror, Mr Holmes fell to the ground following

an explosion which was part of the stunt during pre-production workon the seventh film in the series, Harry Potter And The DeathlyHallows.

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Recent 'Harry Pott er' accident offers a reminder of w hen stunts go w rong The stunt men and women who put their lives on the line to entertainus seldom get the credit they deserve until something goes wrong. Itwas reported that Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double for Harry Potter andthe Half-Blood Prince was seriously injured when a harness brokeafter an on-set explosion went horribly wrong.

We thought it appropriate to remind you of other movie heroes whowere either seriously injured or paid the ultimate price while trying toentertain.

Aris Comninos , fell into a coma after a car crash while filming theopening scene of Quantum of Solace (2008)

Conw ay Wick l i f f e , died in a car crash on the set of The DarkKnight (2008)

Harry O'Connor , died performing a rappelling stunt while filmingxXx (2002)

M a r c A k e r s t r e a m , was killed by flying debris from an explosion inThe Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998)

Sonja Davis , died during a free-fall stunt while filming Vampire inBrooklyn (1995)

Jane t Wi lde r and four spectators were killed during a speedboataccident while filming Gone Fishing (1995)

Art Scho l l , killed in a plane crash while filming Top Gun (1986)

Pau l Mant z , killed in a plane crash while filming The Flight of thePhoenix (1965)

H.B. Ha l i ck i (writer, director, and legendary car stunt master) diedin a car accident while filming Gone in Sixty Seconds 2 (1989)

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Three injured Friday in slag explosion a t ArcelorMittal EAST CHICAGO | Three contract workers were injured Friday in anexplosion at the slag pit at ArcelorMittal's Indiana Harbor East plant.

One of the workers was taken to a local medical facility, said East

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Chicago spokesman Damian Rico. The other two were airlifted to aChicago hospital burn unit, he said.

No information on their identities, injuries or conditions was availableMonday.

ArcelorMittal spokeswoman Katie Patterson confirmed the incident,but couldn't provide information on the condition of the injuredworkers.

"Emergency personnel were immediately contacted and the incident

was investigated," Patterson said in a statement Monday. "The healthand safety of our employees and everyone who works withinArcelorMittal will always be our top priority."

The injured workers are employed by contractors working at the blastfurnace No.7 slag pit, said Tom Hargrove, president of UnitedSteelworkers Local 1010, which represents the plant's hourly workers.

Although none of his members were injured, the union is participatingin the ongoing investigation "to make sure it doesn't happen again,"Hargrove said

The injured contractors are employed by subcontractors for LafargeSlag, which has the contract to remove slag from the plant, according

to a Lafarge employee. The company uses the slag -- a waste by-product of the steelmaking process -- to make concrete.

Hargrove identified one of the subcontractors as Slag Beemsterboer& Ballast. A spokeswoman for the Hammond-based companydeclined to release any information on the incident.

Officials from Lafarge North America and from Lafarge's facility at thesteel plant did not return calls for information about the explosion.

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Explosion rocks Ferrysburg fuel depot FERRYSBURG An explosion at a Ferrysburg gas depot shookhomes and was heard as far away as Grand Haven early Sundaymorning.

According to Ferrysburg Fire Chief Mike Olthof, the department wascalled to the CITGO Exxon Mobil Terminal, 524 Third St., at around3:15 a.m. by reports of an explosion. When firefighters arrived on thescene, flames were shooting as high as 70 feet in the air from a10,000-gallon oil/water separator tank, Olthof said.

The fire was brought under control within 20 to 25 minutes of thefirefighters' arrival.

The explosion shook homes in the 500 block of Third Street andadjacent Carmen Drive, waking their owners and prompting some toflee the area.

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Janis and Josh Vanderputte, who live on Carmen Drive, initiallythought someone had driven a car into their home.

"It sounded like an M-80 going off next to your head," Josh said. "Assoon as (Janis) opened the blind, you could see the flames."

The couple collected some things and were out of the house aboutthree-and-a-half minutes after they heard the explosion, they said.The Vanderputtes joined several neighbors in the parking lot of theLeppink's store, 17717 174th Ave., for about an hour before returning

home.William Treece, who lives on Third Street, said he thought a branchhad fallen on his roof before police knocked on his door to inform himof the explosion.

"It was just one quick boom," he said. "It was loud enough to wake meup out of a sound sleep."

Another neighbor on Carmen Drive, Jon Vink, didn't evacuate buthe said he was worried the fire would spread.

"It was so loud your ears were ringing in bed," he said. "You don'tsleep through something like that."

Olthof said the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety dutysergeant reported hearing the explosion from the department'sbuilding on Washington Avenue.

"It shook a few windows," Olthof said.

The tank had just been emptied on Friday, Olthof said, and only about2 inches of material remained inside it.

The cause of the explosion is being investigated by a CITGO ExxonMobil team, but it is believed a malfunction with some heat tapeinsulation initially sparked the blaze, Olthof said.

There was no one at the terminal when the explosion occurred, Olthofsaid, and no one was hurt in the incident.

The fire department was aided by prior knowledge of the facility,Olthof said, and the oil company has allowed the firefighters to takeyearly tours of the depot and make plans for an incident like whathappened Sunday ahead of time.

Olthof said Sunday's explosion was the first incident that he canremember in 24 years.

"They have an excellent safety record," he said of the oil company.

An employee at the terminal this morning declined to comment on the

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Explosion at Ferrysburg Citgo depot rocks neighborhood Hundreds of residents in Ferrysburg, Spring Lake and Grand Havenreported feeling the explosion and seeing flames shoot up to 70 feetin the air.

Ferrysburg Fire Chief Mike Olthof said the department responded tothe explosion at the Citgo Buckeye Terminal in the 500 block of ThirdStreet shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday.

A 10,000-gallon water/oil separator tank had exploded, sendingdebris around the property. No one was at the property at the time ofthe fire and no injuries were reported, fire investigators said.

"Initially, when we arrived, there were flames 70 feet high," Olthofsaid. "But we had it knocked down in 15-20 minutes."

"It looked a little worse than it was," Olthof said, adding that the tankonly had about 2 inches of mixture.

Several residents in the area opted to evacuate, Olthof said, althoughhe wasn't sure of the exact number. Edward and Brenda Olger optedto stay home because they saw that the fire was extinguished quickly.

"My wife looked outside and could see the flames," Edward Olgersaid. "But by the time you could count to 20 (the fire department) wasalready there."

No attempt was made to evacuate nearby residents because fireinvestigators did not believe the incident posed any danger, Olthofsaid. The fire department is familiar with the Citgo property and knewthe tank's location and what it was used for, he said.

The tank is deep inside the Citgo property, so there was no danger ofdebris striking nearby properties, Olthof said.

"We work closely with the terminal people, and they keep very goodsafety records," Olthof said. "There was no danger."

As of Sunday night, no cause had been identified. But Olthof said theproblem may have been a blanket of insulation on the outside of thetank that is supposed to keep the tank from freezing.

"There may have been a malfunction," he said.

No damage estimates to the facility have been released yet, Olthofsaid.

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Friday, 13 February 2009

Molt en metal explosions - safety alert

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert toindustry after a Polish worker died from multiple organ failure aftersuffering 80% burns caused by a molten metal explosion whichoccurred at an induction furnace melting ferro-titanium.

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National Tinnitus Week The Health and Safety Executive is supporting National TinnitusWeek, which raises awareness of tinnitus (buzzing, ringing or tone inthe ear), a distressing condition that is common in the music andentertainment industry.

The music and entertainment industry, supported by HSE andEnvironmental Health Officers have developed practical advice oncontrolling noise at work in the music and entertainment sectors -Sound Advice.

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Food manufacture injury statistics Lates t s t a t i s t i c s fo r 2007 /8 - i n ju ry r a t e com par i sons fo r f o o d m a n u fa c t u r i n g w o r k p l a c e s .at 06:27 0 c o m m e n t s Labels: a c c i d e n t , food , hea l th and sa fe ty , HSE , i n ju ry

Is poultry dust making you ill? The Health and Safety Executive has produced a pocket card forworkers in the poultry farming industry, providing simple breathingprotection advice for employees.

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