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RECYCLING FIRM FINED £264K OVER SHREDDER DEATH
24th November 2020
Image credit: HSEA recycling firm in Scotland has been convicted of safety failures fined £264k after a waste machine worker was fatally struck by a heavy object.On 28 March last year, two employees were attempting to remove waste that was trapped between a heavy magnet and a hopper on a mobile shredder machine.Martin Kane, 28, manually removed the locking pins that were keeping the magnet, which weighed more than a tonne, in place. The magnet fell and struck him on the head and he died of his injuries.Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigators found that his employer, Enva Scotland, failed to provide employees who cleaned and used the shredder with adequate training, information and instruction on the deployment of the magnet fitted to the machine.HSE inspector Russell Berry said it should have been a relatively simple task to clean the shredder using the controls on the machine, as it was designed to be self-cleaning.'On this occasion, the employer failed to ensure [Martin] had received adequate information, instruction and training regarding the safe operation and methods of cleaning the machine. It led to him adopting an unsafe method for moving the magnet whilst trying to clean the machine manually, resulting in this tragic but entirely preventable incident.'Enva, which has 29 sites in the UK and Ireland – including eight facilities in Scotland – and has been in business for more than 70 years, was ordered to pay £264,000 after pleading guilty to breaching sections 2(1) and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act at Paisley Sheriff Court. -
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ICC’S OWNER FINED £400,000 AFTER STAGE BOSS HIT BY FALLING WEIGHT
20th November 2020
iStockA conference venue has been fined after an 11.5kg scenery prop hit a stage manager on the head.Birmingham City Council prosecuted the National Exhibition Centre after the incident on 11 January 2019 at the International Convention Centre (ICC), which it owns.A freelance stage manager was struck on the head by a scenery counter-balance weight which had fallen from a high-level stage platform. The victim suffered a serious head injury, requiring extensive surgery.The falling weight also hit another person on the stage, who was not seriously hurt.The court heard how the stage manager was assisting in the set-up of scenery ropes on the stage for a performance by Chinese dance company Shen Yun, when the 11.5kg weight fell from the platform 11 metres above him.Investigators found that the measures in place on the stage’s fly-platform were inadequate to deal with scenery weights, in particular they should never be stored higher than the toe board to prevent them falling off.The risk assessment failed to address the risk of scenery weights falling from that side of the platform, if stored higher than the toe board.Earlier this week (16 November) National Exhibition Centre Ltd was fined £400,000 with costs of £8864 after pleading guilty to breaching section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.Following the incident, the National Exhibition Centre appointed a contractor to install fencing on the fly platform to ensure the incident could not happen again.Councillor Philip Davis, chair of the city council’s Licensing and Public Protection Committee, said: 'This shows what can happen if a business fails to ensure that adequate control measures are in place proportionate to the potential risk of harm.'Heavy objects falling from height are well known to cause serious or fatal injuries. The council will continue to act where minimum standards of health and safety are not met or flouted. This was a horrific accident and I hope the injured party makes a full recovery.'The stage manager has since returned to work, a spokeswoman added. -
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Woman, 53, dies after catching fire at petrol station
James Robinson for MailOnline 5/11/2020
Woman, 53, dies after catching fire at petrol station© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logoA woman who caught fire at a petrol station has died of her injuries, police have today confirmed.
Emergency crews rushed to the BP petrol station on Northern Road in Cosham, Hampshire, after witnesses reported that a person was on fire.
CCTV of the petrol station forecourt appears to show the woman had poured fuel on herself before she was engulfed in flames during the incident on Sunday.
In the footage, a passer-by can also be seen taking off his shirt in a bid to help the woman. Hampshire Police confirmed this morning that the 53-year-old woman had died in hospital after suffering serious burns.
Emergency crews rushed to the BP petrol station on Northern Road in Cosham, Hampshire, after witnesses reported that a person was on fire A spokesperson for the force said: 'We were called at 10.35am on November 1 to a report of a concern for welfare for a woman at Cosham Filling Station on Northern Road, Portsmouth.
'The 53-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious burns. We can now confirm that she has sadly died in hospital.
'Her next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported. The death is not being treated as suspicious.'Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said a member of the public helped to put out the fire as crews arrived at the scene.
A spokesperson added: 'Crews from Southsea fire station and Cosham fire station were mobilised to the incident.
'Due to an ambulance passing the incident, South Central Ambulance Service were at the scene when the fire crews arrived.
'A member of public assisted in putting out the fire prior to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service's arrival. The victim was taken by SCAS to hospital.'Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service crews checked the welfare of the forecourt staff and members of the public.
Crews also conducted a scene safety check.'Crews were at the scene for nearly an hour before a stop message was issued at 11.30am. -
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- Consultant gastroenterologist We could be forgiven for thinking that, when a product no longer works, the lithium coin cell battery that was powering it is flat and no longer poses a risk to children. But, as we have discovered, that’s not the case at all. The dead or ‘flat’ battery you’ve just thrown into the recycling pot in the kitchen drawer can still do significant damage if a child swallows it and it gets stuck in their food pipe. Many accidents happen without an adult knowing and with a child too young to tell them. In some cases, batteries haven’t been detected for weeks. A scary prospect. Happily, the solution is very simple as long as families know there is a danger.
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RECYCLING FIRM FINED £264K OVER SHREDDER DEATH
24th November 2020Image credit: HSEA recycling firm in Scotland has been convicted of safety failures fined £264k after a waste machine worker was fatally struck by a heavy object.On 28 March last year, two employees were attempting to remove waste that was trapped between a heavy magnet and a hopper on a mobile shredder machine.Martin Kane, 28, manually removed the locking pins that were keeping the magnet, which weighed more than a tonne, in place. The magnet fell and struck him on the head and he died of his injuries.Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigators found that his employer, Enva Scotland, failed to provide employees who cleaned and used the shredder with adequate training, information and instruction on the deployment of the magnet fitted to the machine.HSE inspector Russell Berry said it should have been a relatively simple task to clean the shredder using the controls on the machine, as it was designed to be self-cleaning.'On this occasion, the employer failed to ensure [Martin] had received adequate information, instruction and training regarding the safe operation and methods of cleaning the machine. It led to him adopting an unsafe method for moving the magnet whilst trying to clean the machine manually, resulting in this tragic but entirely preventable incident.'Enva, which has 29 sites in the UK and Ireland – including eight facilities in Scotland – and has been in business for more than 70 years, was ordered to pay £264,000 after pleading guilty to breaching sections 2(1) and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act at Paisley Sheriff Court. -
ICC’S OWNER FINED £400,000 AFTER STAGE BOSS HIT BY FALLING WEIGHT
20th November 2020iStockA conference venue has been fined after an 11.5kg scenery prop hit a stage manager on the head.Birmingham City Council prosecuted the National Exhibition Centre after the incident on 11 January 2019 at the International Convention Centre (ICC), which it owns.A freelance stage manager was struck on the head by a scenery counter-balance weight which had fallen from a high-level stage platform. The victim suffered a serious head injury, requiring extensive surgery.The falling weight also hit another person on the stage, who was not seriously hurt.The court heard how the stage manager was assisting in the set-up of scenery ropes on the stage for a performance by Chinese dance company Shen Yun, when the 11.5kg weight fell from the platform 11 metres above him.Investigators found that the measures in place on the stage’s fly-platform were inadequate to deal with scenery weights, in particular they should never be stored higher than the toe board to prevent them falling off.The risk assessment failed to address the risk of scenery weights falling from that side of the platform, if stored higher than the toe board.Earlier this week (16 November) National Exhibition Centre Ltd was fined £400,000 with costs of £8864 after pleading guilty to breaching section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.Following the incident, the National Exhibition Centre appointed a contractor to install fencing on the fly platform to ensure the incident could not happen again.Councillor Philip Davis, chair of the city council’s Licensing and Public Protection Committee, said: 'This shows what can happen if a business fails to ensure that adequate control measures are in place proportionate to the potential risk of harm.'Heavy objects falling from height are well known to cause serious or fatal injuries. The council will continue to act where minimum standards of health and safety are not met or flouted. This was a horrific accident and I hope the injured party makes a full recovery.'The stage manager has since returned to work, a spokeswoman added. -
Woman, 53, dies after catching fire at petrol station
James Robinson for MailOnline 5/11/2020
Woman, 53, dies after catching fire at petrol station
Emergency crews rushed to the BP petrol station on Northern Road in Cosham, Hampshire, after witnesses reported that a person was on fire.
CCTV of the petrol station forecourt appears to show the woman had poured fuel on herself before she was engulfed in flames during the incident on Sunday.
In the footage, a passer-by can also be seen taking off his shirt in a bid to help the woman. Hampshire Police confirmed this morning that the 53-year-old woman had died in hospital after suffering serious burns.
Emergency crews rushed to the BP petrol station on Northern Road in Cosham, Hampshire, after witnesses reported that a person was on fire A spokesperson for the force said: 'We were called at 10.35am on November 1 to a report of a concern for welfare for a woman at Cosham Filling Station on Northern Road, Portsmouth.
'The 53-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious burns. We can now confirm that she has sadly died in hospital.
'Her next-of-kin have been informed and are being supported. The death is not being treated as suspicious.'Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said a member of the public helped to put out the fire as crews arrived at the scene.
A spokesperson added: 'Crews from Southsea fire station and Cosham fire station were mobilised to the incident.
'Due to an ambulance passing the incident, South Central Ambulance Service were at the scene when the fire crews arrived.
'A member of public assisted in putting out the fire prior to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service's arrival. The victim was taken by SCAS to hospital.'Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service crews checked the welfare of the forecourt staff and members of the public.
Crews also conducted a scene safety check.'Crews were at the scene for nearly an hour before a stop message was issued at 11.30am. -
Do you know why ‘flat’ button
batteries are dangerous?
Share
Tweet
Forward
“He swallowed the 'flat' battery
when it was being replaced with a new one. We removed it within 3-4
hours but he had a nasty burn of his oesophagus.”
- Consultant
gastroenterologist
We could be forgiven for thinking
that, when a product no longer works, the lithium coin cell battery
that was powering it is flat and no longer poses a risk to
children. But, as we have discovered, that’s not the case at
all.
The dead or ‘flat’ battery you’ve just thrown into the
recycling pot in the kitchen drawer can still do significant damage
if a child swallows it and it gets stuck in their food pipe.
Many accidents happen without an adult knowing and with a child too
young to tell them.
In
some cases, batteries haven’t been detected for weeks. A scary
prospect. Happily, the solution is very simple as long as
families know there is a danger.
Will
you take a moment to share this simple message with the families you
work with?
We
know the latest lockdown advice will impact how much you can do with
and for families. That’s why we’ve put together a range of digital
resources that are simple to use and share, however you may be
working.
More information
Read
our article to find out more. It’s a great way to
get up-to-speed.
Follow
this link to the free, easy-to-use, shareable
content.
Share
this email with colleagues so they can benefit from
the insight and resources.
Here
at the Child Accident Prevention Trust, we are committed to bringing
you resources and support to make preventing serious injuries one
less thing to worry about. Do keep telling us what’s most
useful for your families and we’ll do our best to help.
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Lambasts industry for fostering ‘don’t say no’ culture 30 years after his father’s death on-setRory Kinnear, whose father died on a set 32 years ago, has lambasted the industry for failing to improve health and safety practices and fostering a ‘don’t say no’ culture.The Years and Years star’s father Roy fell off a horse while filming in Spain for The Return of the Musketeers in 1988, a stunt he performed after trained stuntmen had refused.
Roy KinnearHis son used yesterday’s Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture to criticise the slow progress made since, pointing to the death of cameraman Mark Milsome whilst filming in Ghana for BBC2/Netflix drama The Forgiving Earth [later called Black Earth Rising] in 2017.A supporter of the Mark Milsome Foundation, Kinnear contrasted the situation with the “seismic shift” the industry has made in sex and intimacy filming over the past two years, which has seen a rise in specialist intimacy co-ordinators and standardised guidelines such as those published by Directors UK last week.“More than 30 years after my dad died, people are still saying yes to doing scenes when they should be saying no,” he said. “I gain no pleasure from repeating my story on every set I’m on but it’s a burden I wear quite willingly if it will help young actors to say no.”Two key factors, according to Kinnear, are that many dramas are shot abroad and that the precarious nature of the industry sees extras scared to “make a fuss”, lest they be turned down for work in future.On the former, he said: “The safety legislation we have over here evaporates when you film abroad. As an actor I barely know the laws that are permissible in my own country let alone in South Africa or Lithuania.”‘Just say no’Kinnear stressed that “no shot is so important” that it needs to be completed if an actor is uncomfortable performing it.“Saying no to a director doesn’t limit their artistic capabilities or vision - it can be an enabler of a more rewarding vision,” he added. “The lasting impact of my dad dying hugely outweighs the lasting impact of not being able to film a scene.”Kinnear was joined by Hartswood Films boss Sue Vertue, who floated the use of a compulsory health and safety passport that production companies would have to sign up to.She hailed the work of Netflix and Sky in the space and praised the outfits’ anonymous hotlines, which cast members can ring if they feel unsafe on set.“We bust a gut making TV but you have to remind yourselves that it’s just TV. Nothing is worth the risk,” said Vertue.
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