Slips, Trips and Falls campaign
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a hard-hitting campaign on slips, trips and falls in the workplace, in the third stage of its “Shattered Lives” initiative.
Corporate Manslaughter Update
There is currently a huge level of interest in both the health and safety profession and the wider business world over the prosecution of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, the first to be made under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.
West Virginia coal mine explosion kills 25
Twenty-five miners are now known to have died and four are missing in an accident at a West Virginia coal mine.
Two firefighters killed at Southampton flats
Two firefighters have been killed while tackling a fire at a high-rise block of flats in Southampton.
Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings
At least 35 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow Metro trains in the morning rush hour, officials say.