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    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Brexit
      Big UK regulators are struggling to adapt to post-Brexit roles, say MPs

      Public accounts committee warns that consumers and companies face ‘greater risks and costs’

      An abattoir worker pushing hanging beef carcasses
    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      UK economy
      UK regulators struggle to recruit staff for post-Brexit roles

      CMA, HSE and FSA are facing shortfall of lawyers, vets and toxicologists, warns spending watchdog

      Vets in a cow shed
    • Thursday, 20 May, 2021
      Ransomware
      Ireland examines decryption key to restore health systems after ransomware attack

      Account said to be from ContiLocker says it will ‘start to sell and publish’ patient information on Monday

      Computer code on screens
    • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
      Travel & leisure industry
      Former theme park operator fined £1m after child’s death

      Safety failings on water ride led to drowning of 11-year-old at Drayton Manor Theme Park

      Drayton Manor Theme Park signage
    • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
      Sarah O'Connor
      Covid rule-breakers face jail but careless employers go free

      There’s an imbalance in the UK government’s attitude to workplace safety and personal transgressions

    • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
      Sarah O'Connor
      Key workers must be kept safer in Covid’s second wave

      Lessons were missed in the first wave that could protect UK employees now

    • Tuesday, 26 May, 2020
      Sarah O'Connor
      We need health and safety at work now more than ever

      Boris Johnson’s plan to restart the economy relies on a regulator weakened by his party, all in the name of economic growth

      FXB3EX Man in a wheelchair at a Care home for the elderly UK
    • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
      UK employment
      Safe return to work will take time, warn UK unions and employers

      Fears over risks borne by blue-collar workers and ethnic groups and over ‘grey areas’ on PPE and enforcement

    • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
      UK politics
      Government prepares blueprint for UK’s ‘safe’ return to work

      Business department drawing up ‘workplace by workplace’ guidance for when lockdown easing ordered

      LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 25: Construction workers wear masks and maintain social distancing as they continue working on Battersea Park Road in Wandsworth, south west London on March 25, 2020 in London, England. British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced strict lockdown measures urging people to stay at home and only leave the house for basic food shopping, exercise once a day and essential travel to and from work. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to at least 182 countries, claiming over 18,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
      Staying vigilant on safety at work

      The new head of Britain’s Health and Safety Executive is turning her attention to the ‘gig economy’

      Sarah Albon, the recently-appointed CEO of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), pictured at the organisation's headquarters in Bootle, Merseyside.
    • Sunday, 25 August, 2019
      LexUK companies
      Health and safety: high viz, good for biz Premium content

      It is time to salute those people with clipboards who trundle round doing risk assessments

      Construction workers lift a steel beam on a residential site in the Tower Hamlets district of London, U.K., on Monday, July 29, 2019. High living costs and a falling pound are further deterrents for EU citizens considering settling in Britain. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
    • Sunday, 14 April, 2019
      News in-depthUK employment
      UK focused on ‘low-hanging fruit’ in minimum wage fight

      Most serious pay violations are not being tackled, director of labour market enforcement warns

      Migrant workers from Romania leaf-stripping at Gusbourne Estate vineyard in Kent on August 13, 2018.
    • Sunday, 7 October, 2018
      UK economy
      Charter aims to improve wellbeing of legal minds

      Law firms and banks attempt to tackle effects of long hours and stress

      Steuart Padwick's sculpture 'Head Above Water' went up on London's South Bank in September in an attempt to break down stigmas surrounding mental illness
    • Monday, 18 December, 2017
      Grenfell Tower disaster
      Report criticises UK building safety system as ‘not fit for purpose’ after Grenfell fire
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2017
      FT AlphavilleKadhim Shubber
      Accrol gets flushed away
    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2016
      Rail
      Croydon tram travelling at more than 3 times speed limit

      Investigators tell London’s transport authority to improve signposting

      LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 12:  Floral tributes left near the Sandilands tram stop by the site of the Croydon tram crash on November 12, 2016 in London, England. The tram has been removed and work is being undertaken to repair damage at the crash site, where 7 people were killed and more than 50 injured. The tram driver was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.  (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
    • Sunday, 30 October, 2016
      UK employment
      Health and safety prosecutions treble in a year

      Regulator holds errant bosses to account and aims to put a dent in turnover

      Safety helmets and gloves hang from a rack on a mining site
    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2016
      fastFT
      Alton Towers owner fined £5m over rollercoaster accident
    • Sunday, 24 April, 2016
      Energy sector
      MPs criticise RWE over missing bodies in Didcot rubble

      German group under fire for its handling of search for bodies after power station collapse

      Part of a collapsed building is illuminated by the emergency services as they work at the decommissioned Didcot A power station in central England, February 23, 2016. At least one person was killed and three were reported missing after  part of a building collapsed at the disused power plant local fire services said.  REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
      At Home with the FT
      Dame Judith Hackitt, Britain’s former health and safety mythbuster

      Ex-chair of the Health and Safety Executive on why young people’s education should include an element of danger

      Dame Judith Hackitt in the conservatory of her home in south Oxfordshire
    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
      fastFT
      Alton Towers owner pleads guilty to health and safety breach
    • Thursday, 25 February, 2016
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Merlin to be prosecuted over Alton Towers rollercoaster crash

      HSE says ‘there is sufficient evidence and that it is in the public interest’ to bring a case

    • Thursday, 25 February, 2016
      fastFT
      Merlin facing prosecution over Alton Towers accident
    • Tuesday, 27 January, 2015
      Construction sector
      UK construction sites see rise in deaths

      Berkeley Homes says housing market’s recovery has placed pressures on workers and site managers

      Commuters cross a footbridge near the "Catford Green" residential apartment complex, as it stands during construction by Barratt Developments Plc, in the Catford district of London. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
    • Friday, 11 July, 2014
      FT AlphavilleDan McCrum
      Deaf ears at Quindell
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