Latest Enforcement Activity
STS look at recent EHO food safety and health and safety activity within the UK courts…
Egg company fined for finger amputations
An egg company in Worcestershire has been fined £13,000 + over £6,000 costs after a worker lost two fingers whilst cleaning a drain on a production line.
The employee lost part of his index and middle [...]
Food Safety and Health & Safety Legal Updates – January 2012
STS keep you up to date with the latest from the UK courts of law for food safety and health & safety EHO prosecutions. For further health and safety legal activity, visit the HSE website for more information.
Cambridgeshire Butcher fined £8000 for hygiene offences
A butcher from Eaton inCambridgeshire was fined £8,000 and order to pay [...]
Slips and Trips in the Kitchen Shatter Lives
Slips and trips remain the single most common cause of major injury in UK workplaces. Over 10,000 workers suffered serious injury because of a slip or trip last year. 95% of major slips result in broken bones and they can also be the initial cause for a range of other types of accident such as a [...]
Lifting the lid on health and safety myths
The words health and Safety often fill us with dread or a sense of ‘big brother’ and ‘officials legislating the fun out of our lives’. A lot of health and safety legislation has made its way onto head line news and has caused cynicism and even anti health and safety lobbying. Its often easy to [...]
Legionella – pneumonia in the mist…
Most of you, I am sure, have heard of Legionella and are aware of its dangers. However, knowing how to prevent it and ensuring you do not contract this form of pneumonia, is something most may not be completely certain about.
Since its discovery in 1976 at an American Legion meeting (hence its name), we have [...]
Prosecutions update – November 2011
Welcome to the November legal activity update from STS. It is always useful to remind ourselves of why good food hygiene and health and safety standards should be maintained from a legal perspective (we are all aware of the positive benefits of a good reputation, returning customers and happy staff but need to remember that [...]
