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		<title>New Corporate Manslaughter Guidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under guidelines that came into effect on 15 February 2010, companies and organisations convicted of corporate manslaughter could face massive fines.
The Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC), have issued guidance, stating that those found guilty of corporate manslaughter should rarely face fines under £500,000.
Other health and safety offences that cause death should command fines which start at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worker&#8217;s death costs firm £15,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bolton house-building company has today been fined £7,500 after one of its workers fell to his death.
D C Kennedy Homes Ltd was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee was killed when he fell from a ladder.
The man was working on a project to build six new semi-detached houses in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MP seeks positive H&amp;S duties for directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Doran MP (Labour) has introduced a Bill to amend the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974 in respect of the liability of company directors.
At the first reading of his Health and Safety (Company Director Liability) Bill in the Commons on 19 January, he said that directors can be prosecuted under section 37 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s OK to get a general handyman to work on gas appliances</title>
		<link>http://www.macbrac.com/macbrac-blog/its-ok-to-get-a-general-handyman-to-work-on-gas-appliances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S NOT TRUE!
Anyone who is employed to work on gas appliances MUST be listed on the Gas Safe Register. If the person you&#8217;re using isn&#8217;t registered then they might not be safe and they are also breaking the law.
Incorrectly fitted or badly repaired gas appliances can lead to deaths and injuries through carbon monoxide poisoning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contractor Killed Falling Through Rooflight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international freight forwarding company has been criticised for failing to assess the competence of contractors, following the death of a labourer at its warehouse in West London.
A 24 year old man had been contracted to replace rooflights that were leaking at K-Line Logistics (UK) Ltd’s warehouse in Feltham. He had not received any training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Employers Asked To Make New Year Safety Resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.macbrac.com/macbrac-blog/scottish-employers-asked-to-make-new-year-safety-resolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.macbrac.com/macbrac-blog/scottish-employers-asked-to-make-new-year-safety-resolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acording to the HSE, there were almost 222 work-related incidents per week resulting in over 11,500 being killed or injured. 3.1 million working days lost. Who says health and safety is over the top?
Click for full article
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		<title>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macbrac Business Safety wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a HappyNew Year. Stay safe.
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		<title>Company and managers fined for health and safety offences</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A food packaging printing company has been fined £20,000 after an investigation into a worker’s injury exposed a series of health and safety breaches at its Bedfordshire factory.
On 14 August 2008, an employee of the company caught her arm between two rollers when was trying to retrieve a carton stuck in a window patching machine.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father and son jailed following deaths of two fire-fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlie-gunter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A father and son have been jailed for manslaughter following an explosion at a fireworks factory in which two fire-fighters lost their lives.
Alpha Fireworks owner Martin Winter, 52, was jailed for seven years, and his 25-year-old son, Nathan Winter, sentenced to five years for the deaths of retained firefighter Geoff Wicker, 49, and support officer [...]]]></description>
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