UK News

Cameron pledges to kill UK's health and safety culture

info@3rdi.ie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:08:34 GMT

The UK's Prime Minister has declared "war" on "excessive health and and safety culture that has become an albatross around the neck of British businesses.

Walking backwards from the Queen is banned for health and safety reasons

info@3rdi.ie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:09:13 GMT

Royal aids have scraped the tradition of walking backwards out of the room after bowing or curtsying to the Queen.

Reason for sickness absence can predict employee deaths

info@3rdi.ie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:15:41 GMT

Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to circulatory or psychiatric problems or for surgery, concludes a study on bmj.com

Judge allows disclosure of workers’ medical records after death

info@3rdi.ie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:18:25 GMT

A High Court judge in London ruled last week that doctors’ duty of confidentiality "arguably" survives a patient’s death but gave the go ahead "in the public interest" for the disclosure of medical records of dead nuclear plant workers to an independent inquiry.

Suzy Lamplugh Trust – article on lone working

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:14:58 GMT

The trust asks are we doing enough to protect lone workers from violence and aggression?

Mobile phone stress and “nomo-phobia”

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:13:24 GMT

Being out of mobile phone contact is as stressful as moving house or breaking up with a partner for nearly one in five phone users.

Millions of British workers miss out on training

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:11:43 GMT

British men and women are at risk at work today because of a lack of safety training, the biggest survey ever carried out by the British Safety Council (BSC) has revealed.

Warning re Quad Bikes during lambing

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:09:53 GMT

As the lambing season approaches, potentially one of the busiest times of the year forusing quad bikes, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging farmers to make sure that they wear a safety helmet when using the machines which are also known as ATVs or "all terrain vehicles".

HSE Staff off work with stress

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:07:33 GMT

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has admitted that more than one in five sick days taken by its staff is blamed on stress.

Kitchen assistants scarred by hot oil

info@3rdi.ie — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:01:17 GMT

In separate but almost identical incidents, two kitchen workers suffered severe burns by slipping into containers of hot oil on their respective employers’ premises. In one of the incidents a 19-year-old girl was left with serious burns, after she came into contact with cooking oil nine times hotter than the recommended temperature at which it is safe to drain.