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Health & Safety news stories:

• 12 Nov 2012
  Corporate Manslaughter Prosecution
  The Crown Prosecution Service have announced that they have charged a third company with Corporate Manslaughter under legislation introduced just over four and half years ago.
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• 2 Nov 2012
  Health & Safety concerns for Agricultural sector
  It has been a difficult time for those operating in agriculture with tragic reports coming as recently as last week of yet another death in the agricultural sector in Northern Ireland.
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• 25 Oct 2012
  Health and Safety concerns for Hyde Park concerts
  Live Nation has indicated that it might pull out of staging concerts in London’s Hyde Park because of concerns about the tender process. The comments follow the recent disappointing and unpopular end to the Hard Rock Calling event where Bruce Springsteen
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• 10 Sep 2012
  Construction Industry targeted for Inspection
  The HSE in Scotland have embarked upon a targeted inspection campaign for the month of September.
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• 5 Sep 2012
  Appetite for “Elf and Safety gone mad” stories continues
  The launch of the HSE Myth Buster Challenge Panel and the seemingly limitless appetite for media interest in “elf and safety gone mad” stories continues to generate stories of decisions that are very hard to reconcile with the real purpose of health and s
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• 25 Jul 2012
  The Myth Busters Challenge – an update
  As at the end of June the Myth Busters Challenge Panel had considered 39 complaints about decisions that were felt to have been wrongly attributed to health and safety law.
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• 23 Jul 2012
  Third and largest Corporate Manslaughter fine imposed
  The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act came into force on 6 April 2008.
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• 6 Jun 2012
  Health and Safety at the Olympics
  The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) issues a special Diamond Jubilee Award to the Olympic Delivery Authority in respect of the Big Build construction phase of the games.
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• 25 May 2012
  Jubilee celebrations safe to take to the streets
  An estimated 10,000 parties are due to take place in the United Kingdom over the Jubilee weekend resulting in nearly 6500 road closures, but what about Health & Safety concerns?
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• 4 May 2012
  Historic building firm fined following fatal accident
  The firm that runs Warwick Castle as a visitor attraction has been fined £350,000 and made to pay prosecution costs of £145,000 following a successful prosecution under Health and Safety legislation.
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