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John Reynolds, managing director of Reynolds Training Services, recently sat down with Andy Comfort of BBC Radio Humberside to thrash out all things health and safety. Speaking from Reynolds Training …

On October 23, 2009, a large explosion occurred at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) facility in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, during the off-loading of gasoline from a tanker ship to the …

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have co-funded research to analyse the risk of workplace injury arising from common health conditions treated …

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is an independent U.S Federal agency that conducts investigations into the root causes of chemical accidents at industrial facilities. The agency’s board are appointed by …

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum has issued recommendations to enable ship and terminal ESD systems to be linked so that manual activation by the terminal or ship will stop …

The Health and Safety Executive has issued a Crown Censure to The Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an agency driver was fatally injured by a reversing vehicle. Mr Graham Wood, of …

Jaguar Land Rover has been fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of £49,800 after a worker lost his leg in an accident at its Lode Lane plant in Solihull, …

The Oil & Pipelines Agency says it considers competency as “key to unlocking safe and efficient processes” across its six COMAH regulated Oil Fuel Depots (OFDs) sites. In its latest …

US Chemical Safety Board is deploying a three-person investigative team to the scene of an incident that killed three workers and reportedly injured seven at the Packaging Corporation of America …

In recent years, health and safety law has been invoked arbitrarily by bosses as the reason why their employees can’t do something or why something they have traditionally done for …