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You and me both Beverley. Where in Zomerset?

Mike

Well I wish you hadn't...that was not nice and it's not clever

A director of a fuel tank manufacturing business has been banned from directing any company for five years after breaching a raft of health and safety regulations.

Brian Nixon of Evesham, Worcestershire, and managing director of Transtore (UK) Ltd was also fined

A Lancashire plumber has been fined

New regulations further protecting workers from the dangers of hazardous sources of artificial light come into force today. 24.04.2010

The Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations meets a European Union Directive to ensure that standards are set and harmonised across Europe to protect workers from harm arising from exposure to hazardous sources of artificial light.

Some sources of artificial light, particularly UV radiation and light from lasers can harm the eyes and skin of workers and must be properly managed.

Workers in Great Britain are generally well protected from dangerous sources of light and the majority of businesses know how to manage the risks effectively. Therefore the regulations will mean few practical changes for most businesses, including those who are already managing the risks.

To help those businesses who are not already managing the risks understand what's required and what they need to do, HSE is producing guidance to ensure workers can remain appropriately protected.

Common sources of light in the workplace such as office lights, photocopiers and computers are not affected by the regulations.

A water services company and its sub-contractor have been fined after a technician fell through the roof of a pumping station in Cambridgeshire, fracturing a vertebra in his back.

Technician Matthew Morgan, sub-contracted to Anglian Water Services, fell through an unmarked fragile roof light while taking a reading from a rain gauge on top of a pumping station in Willingham, near Cambridge.

Mr Morgan, 28, of Wellington Grove, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, suffered a fractured vertebra, cuts and bruising, and has had ongoing back pain since the fall on 6 August 2007.

His employer IETG Ltd, of Hapco House, Cross Green Way, Cross Green Industrial Estate, Leeds, appeared at Ely Magistrates' Court today and admitted breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The company failed to ensure the health and safety of those working near unmarked fragile skylights. Magistrates fined IETG

From a Health & Safety prospectus... With thanks to the HSE.

1. Register your new business. Decide whether you need to notify the Health and Safety Executive or your local authority about your business and where necessary, do so.

2. Take out Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance covers you against claims from employees who are injured or become ill as a result of their work.

3. Appoint a competent person. The law says you must appoint a competent person to help you meet your health and safety duties. This does not have to be an external consultant.

4. Write your health and safety policy. Your health and safety policy sets out the arrangements you have put in place for managing health and safety in your business. It is a unique document that says who does what, when and how.

5. Assess the risks. Decide what could harm people and what precautions to take. This is your risk assessment. You must act on the findings of your risk assessment, by putting sensible controls in place to prevent accidents and ill health and making sure they are followed.

6. Provide basic welfare facilities. You must provide a safe and healthy environment for all your employees. This includes toilets, washing facilities and drinking water, and appropriate lighting and temperature.

7. Provide free health and safety training and supervision. Everyone who works for you, including self-employed people, needs to know how to work safely and without risks to health. So you need to train them and supervise their work.

8. Consult your workers. Consultation means discussing health and safety with your workers allowing them to raise concerns and influence decisions.

9. Display the health and safety law poster. This is required by law. The poster includes basic health and safety information and lets people know who is responsible for health and safety in your workplace. Or you can give workers a leaflet.

10. Understand RIDDOR reporting procedures. The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), require you to report work-related accidents, diseases and near-miss incidents. Make sure you know how to report, even if you never need to.

11. Keep up to date. You can follow the news in your sector through e-bulletins, news feeds, podcasts and texts to your mobile.

C'mon hands up...who has sent us rain here in Somerset? I had a fairly quiet day (everything all up-to-date and waiting for more enquiries or a phone call) so thought I might start a full detail job on er indoors car then carry on with my wee Smart car.

It is a mighty eleven degrees, bliddy cold, grey and overcast...jeez it's depressing and set to stay cool here for a while now. C'MON SUMMER, GET A MOVE ON!

Actually from a bigger picture aspect. What does happen if we can't pay back the loans? I assume it is China / Arabian countries etc that have put in most of the capital.

I mean from a purely simplistic approach to this, if GB PLC became truly insolvent, what precisely do we secure loans on? Property? I can't think what else we offer as security.

What would happen?

Mike

Sean

Sorry mate I missed this post. Thank you.

Mike