Blurring of work and home life: are there ‘winners’ and ‘losers’?
The US comedian Carrie Snow once said new technology “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”.
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BHP Group
- Jun 13, 2019
- 2 min
Gender-neutral ads to encourage female STEM apprentices
Women represented just under 9% of #STEM apprenticeship starters in 2017/18, according to gender balance campaign group WISE.
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BHP Group
- May 24, 2019
- 1 min
Farmer fined after worker suffers fatal fall
Mold Magistrates’ Court heard how on 19 July 2018 self-employed contractor David Alan Rees was fatally injured whilst he was clearing out...
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BHP Group
- May 16, 2019
- 2 min
Waste plant fined £500k over fatal wheeled loader crush
George Richardson had worked for Sanders Waste and Plant Management at its site in Pegswood, near Morpeth, for ten years when the accident
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BHP Group
- May 2, 2019
- 3 min
Energy giant fined £230,000 for unfairly dismissing employee that ‘HR didn’t know how to deal with’
“One of the UK’s largest energy providers has been ordered to pay an employee £230,000 for unfair dismissal
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BHP Group
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops
When asked about economic conditions in the country as a whole 13% of employers said they were getting better, while 44% believed they were.
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BHP Group
- Apr 11, 2019
- 1 min
Unguarded machine trapped worker’s hand
On 25 April 2018, an experienced worker was making concrete screen wall blocks at their site in West Sussex
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BHP Group
- Mar 27, 2019
- 1 min
HSE’s suite of RIDDOR Forms to be refreshed
These reports simply let the relevant enforcing authority know that an incident has occurred so they can identify where and how risks arise,
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BHP Group
- Mar 26, 2019
- 1 min
Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation
The new limits apply where the event that gives rise to the award or payment occurs on or after 6 April 2019.
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BHP Group
- Mar 25, 2019
- 1 min
Change in Enforcement Expectation for Mild Steel Welding Fume
The #HSE states that The #Workplace Health Expert Committee has endorsed the reclassification of mild steel welding fume
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BHP Group
- Mar 23, 2019
- 3 min
Ignorance is not bliss
A duty to make reasonable adjustments will arise when an employer has actual or constructive knowledge of an employee’s disability.
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BHP Group
- Feb 8, 2019
- 2 min
HMRC should stop its “unreasonable” investigations
n a letter to the HMRC, the #BRC said it was “inappropriate” for enforcement officers to pursue companies for technical breaches
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