The U.K. government will respond fully in early 2022 after a public consultation, but the report is a positive step for the fusion community in that it recognises the importance of the right regulatory framework to successful roll-out of a technology.
DANGEROUS hydrocarbons released at Mossmorran show an urgent need for government intervention, the Scottish Greens warned today.
Fife’s Exxon Mobil plant is facing prosecution after a second public body submitted complaints about breaches of regulations at the site.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has submitted a formal report to the Procurator Fiscal over leaks of hydrocarbons at the plant in 2019.
It follows a similar report submitted by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in July 2020 calling for prosecution in relation to flaring at the Mossmorran complex in April 2019.
Ministers must take urgent action over the Fife plant, the Greens say.
Firm fined over HSE incident Jo Francis Friday, May 14, 2021
A specialist printing firm has been fined a six-figure sum after an incident where an employee suffered asphyxiation after becoming entangled in a part of a press.
The employee’s high vis tabard became entangled in a rotating spindle
The incident occurred at Hereford-based Alfaplas on 29 January 2019.
The firm specialises in flexographic printing, extrusion, converting and slitting. It makes a wide range of products including newspaper and magazine polywrap and compostable wrap, beverage multi-pack wraps, and food packaging.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) said the employee, who was a supervisor at Alfaplas, was trying to realign a reel of product on a printing machine while it was running at half speed.
AGRICULTURAL workplace deaths have seen a steep increase over the past year, Unite warned today.
There were a total of 20 deaths in the sector between April 2019 and April 2020, but, according to the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) fatality list for 2020-2021, by the third week of February there had already been 33 deaths: an increase of 61 per cent.
There are likely to have been further fatalities before the end of the reporting year on April 1, Unite said.
The highest causes of deaths were contact with cattle (11, including five members of the public) and deaths involving vehicles (10).
Even before the latest figures emerged, agriculture was considered to be the most dangerous sector in the country, with fatality rates 18 times the national workplace average.