Welcome to This Week at theEHP, a summary of the articles that appeared on the site over the previous week.
This week at theEHP things have been busy. We have seen a site upgrade, the introduction of environmentally friendly partners, Green People making a difference and a lot of activity by the Health & Safety Executive.
Site Upgrade
If you head on over to theEHP you will see the new magazine style layout and colour scheme. As with any website, the site is constantly evolving so visit regularly to see whats new.
Environmentally Friendly Partners
theEHP has partnered with a number of companies that provide everyday products that have a positive impact on the environment or health. Current deals are detailed on the site so click on the ads and check out what they have to offer.
In celebration of the new partnerships, check out the article on Green People for an example of how companies make a difference.
Looking forward to seeing you at theEHP and any comments are welcome.
theEHP
Making a Difference
- Making A Difference: Green People Organic Lifestyle
There are people out there that are making a difference. In the first issue of Making A Difference theEHP introduces Green People.
Environmental Protection News
- Environmental Protection: Water company fined £20,000 for polluting estuary
- Environmental Protection: Man fined £5,000 for operating business without a permit
- Environment Protection: Yorkshire Water fined £7,500 for beck pollution
A water company has been fined £20,000 for polluting the Plym Estuary with sewage.
A Leicestershire man has been fined £5,000 for operating a skip hire business without a permit.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £7,500 after sewage was found in a beck (small mountain stream) which runs into a North Yorkshire bathing beach.
Food Safety News
- Food Safety: Food Law Practice Guidance updated
The Food Standards Agency has today published updated Practice Guidance for the Food Law Code of Practice.
Housing News
- Housing: Cold homes increase the risk of illnesses in children and young people
- Housing: Landlords being failed by court eviction process
- Housing: 1 in 5 London households to be in private rented sector by 2016
- Housing: London’s new build space standards ‘to be watered down’
- Housing: New tenacy deposite guidance available
A new report published by Friends of the Earth & the Marmot Review Team shows that cold homes increase the risk of illnesses in children and young people.
Legal 4 Landlords wants a radical shake-up of the county court eviction process to help landlords get rid of problem tenants.
Research by Savills reveals that 1 in 5 London households will be in the private rented sector by the end of 2016.
London mayor Boris Johnson may be forced to water down proposed space standards for new private housing in London, despite a high-profile campaign against new build “hobbit homes” in the capital.
A new guide is available on tenancy deposits, disputes and damages.
Health & Safety News
- Health & Safety: Woodworking company fined £3,750 for faulty ventiliation
- Health & Safety: Company fined £5,000 after cinema collapses onto carriageway
- Health & Safety: Principal contractor fined £2,250 for worker fall
- Health & Safety: Stourbridge engineering firm fined £7,500 after employee loses thumb
- Health & Safety: Two companies fined £5,600 for ignoring notices
- Health & Safety: Aerospace company fined £14,000 after worker’s hand crushed
- Health & Safety: Unregistered gas fitter fined £23,000 for misleading customers
- Health & Safety: The HSE evaluates safety nets by experiment
- Health & Safety: Company fined £40,000 for death of worker
- Health & Safety: Quarry owner fined £7,500 for operating unsafe machinery
- Health & Safety: Manufacturer fined £10,000 after steel flange rings fall on worker
- Health & Safety: Scaffolder fined £15,000 for after working without a harness
- Health & Safety: Building company fined £20,000 for asbestor contamination
- Health & Safety: Play equipment manufacturer fined £4,700 after saw accident
- Health & Safety: Company fined £5,000 after worker injured by forklift
- Health & Safety: Property developer fined £10,000 for safety fears
A Bristol joinery and staircase specialist has been fined £3,750 for taking insufficient action to improve a ventilation unit used to control exposure to wood dust.
A Liverpool demolition firm has been fined £5,000 after poor work saw a disused cinema collapse onto a dual carriageway in Thornton Cleveleys.
A principal contractor has been fined £2,250 after a worker suffered serious head injuries when he fell through a loading platform at a boat building company.
A Stourbridge engineering firm has been fined £7,500 after an employee lost his thumb when it was crushed during a lifting operation.
Two London companies have been fined a total of £5,600 for failing to comply with safety orders issued to protect workers from serious injury.
An aerospace firm has been fined £14,000 after a worker suffered severe and permanent hand and wrist injuries.
An unregistered gas fitter has been fined £23,000 for misleading customers into believing he was a legally registered gas engineer and then carried out work that put lives at risk.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has published research on the effectiveness of safety nets.
A Staffordshire engineering firm has been fined £40,000 after a worker was crushed to death underneath a plant vehicle.
A Lincolnshire quarry owner has been fined £7,500 for endangering employees after being found guilty of operating unsafe machinery.
A pipe coupling manufacturer has been fined £10,000 after worker suffered multiple injuries when two quarter tonne steel flange rings fell on him.
A Hastings scaffolder has today been fined £15,000 for endangering himself and others after working on a four-storey scaffold with no harness.
A Nottinghamshire building firm has been fined £20,000 for contaminated an elderly resident’s possessions with asbestos during bathroom renovation work.
An international play equipment manufacturer has been fined £4,700 after one of its workers severed four fingers using a circular saw.
A metal engineering company has been fined £5,000 after one of its workers was serious injured when a forklift truck tipped and the load landed on him.
Property developer Prestige Homes Construction Company Ltd was fined £10,000 after being ordered to stop work three times over safety fears at a construction site in Greater Manchester.
