We are delighted to have been selected as a finalist in the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards in the category of Small Business of the Year. The presentation dinner is taking place on 6 October at the Centaur Cheltenham Racecourse. Wish us luck! ...
Engineers’ clothes set alight by fireball
The following article has been taken from the July edition of Safety and Health Practitioner and really brings home the importance of electrical safety. Have a read through the article and then ask yourself the following questions:
Are your Risk Assessments up-to-date?
When were your electrical appli ...
A Leicestershire pub has been fined 20,000 after EHOs discovered a ‘substantial amount’ of rotten and rodent-bitten food.
They found decomposing meat, mouldy black pudding and a bag of flour that had been gnawed at by rodents.
Melton BC EHOs were investigating the Fox and Hounds in Somerby Road, Knossington, in February last year after a custom ...
Some basic staff health and safety training could have avoided this nasty accident and avoided a pub a hefty fine. The pub was recently served a £6,000 fine and £1,454 costs where a protruding screw on a promotional sign caused a serious eye injury to a customer.*
Shoddy workmanship is one thing, however leaving something dnagerous, even if it was ...
As reported recently in May 2011 Edition of Environmental Health News, a pub was fined £10,500 and £2,032 costs after pleading guilty to six food hygiene offences.
Dirty equipment, inadequate cleaning and disinfection and inadequate measures to prevent contamination by pests featured in the charges. The company has now merged with another pub c ...