Local authority fined over HAVS breaches

A local authority has been fined £50,000 after 15 employees working in a highways department developed Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), as a result of the Council’s failure to control exposure to vibration.

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HSE launches dust awareness campaign

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be targeting construction sites in the next few months as part of its dust awareness and respiratory health initiative, ‘Dust. It Can Kill.’

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