Food and drink manufacturers need to improve training and monitoring to raise health and safety standards across the industry, urged testing and certification provider Bureau Veritas.
Food manufacturers and their staff must pay closer attention to workplace health risks or face stiff penalties, warns the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
A company that manufactures packaging for the food and drink industry has been fined £100,000 for health and safety offences, after a worker’s hand was crushed.
Carlsberg UK has claimed the safety of its employees is of the “utmost importance” after being served an improvement notice from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following a gas leak that led to the death of one of its workers.
Poultry processor Moy Park has been ordered to pay more than £210,000 after a worker suffered a “deep laceration” to his hand when testing the blades on one of its cutting lines.
Warburtons has been fined £2M for health and safety failings, after a worker was hospitalised after sustaining life changing injuries following a fall from a mixing machine.
New guidance has been launched in an effort to reduce the 1,700 acute injuries that occur each year in the food and drink sector caused by manual handling.
Soup firm Baxters Food Group was fined £70,000 on September 22 after it admitted serious health and safety failings had caused a worker’s hand to become mutilated in a pie machine.
Leading names in UK food and drink manufacture have joined a new initiative, run by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), to promote safety culture change in the sector.
A horticultural firm was ordered to pay more than £30,000 by Bolton Magistrates court last week (June 27) for safety failings at two of its sites, after investigations by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Occupational health is becoming an increasing focus for the food and drink manufacturing sector with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and respiratory and skin conditions of particular concern. Taking health and safety figures overall, the sector also...
Food and drink manufacturers have been given four top tips on how to avoid tougher fines for safety offences, as new sentencing guidelines take effect on Monday (February 1).
Food manufacturers and retailers are turning a blind eye to the poor working conditions and land conflicts endemic in the production of sugar cane, a Dutch not-for-profit organisation has found.
Businesses found guilty of corporate manslaughter and the most serious food crimes will face tougher fines under new guidelines published today (November 3).
Many workers in the food and drink manufacturing sector are being exposed to dangerous levels of noise that could cause permanent damage to their hearing, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which has updated guidance to help protect them.
English Provender Company Ltd has been fined £15,000 after a worker injured his hand while clearing a sugar dispensing machine at the firm’s Berkshire factory.
A Premier Foods engineer has received a significant amount in compensation after he was left with life-changing injuries following a devastating accident at its Moreton cake factory.
Lanchester Dairies has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £1,690 in costs for safety failings after a worker suffered “life-changing” injuries following a fall at its site.
A Lincolnshire poultry firm and four of its contractors have been ordered to pay more than £84,000 for repeated safety failings in prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
A cold storage firm has been ordered to pay £60,000 for a series of health and safety failings, which left one worker injured by falling equipment and others with damage to nerves and joints.
Very little is known about the health and safety and occupational health practices of small–and medium–sized food manufacturers and engaging them is crucial to improving the well-being of staff.
Greencore subsidiary Oldfields must pay an £18,000 fine for workplace safety failings that led to an employee losing four of his fingertips as he tried to unblock a dicing machine.
Health & safety budget cuts put staff in the manufacturing sector at risk, according to protective equipment firm Arco, which has alerted the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to its concerns.
A large butchery firm has been ordered to pay £6,440 for safety failings after an employee sliced his forearm because his safety gloves offered insufficient protection.
Spurious health and safety rules have been used to refuse to supply a burger cooked rare and to deny drinkers pints in glasses with handles, according to a new Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report.
A Northamptonshire grain firm has been ordered to pay £30,776 after a worker lost three fingers and a thumb on the unguarded blades of a running mixer.
