When the exhibition and event industry fell under the aegis of the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015, better known to all of us as CDM, exhibitions became the subject of walk-rounds by the HSE, who made some very unwelcome discoveries on their visits to exhibitions.
It's been a while since the Stop the Drop campaign was launched at the ESSA Conference, a joint industry initiative by the AEO, AEV and ESSA. It is a further example of how our members have joined forces once more to help drive health and safety awareness and improvement across the industry.
On 25th March at around 17:00 a fire broke out at the Winter Cherry shopping complex Kermerovo, in Russia killing 64 people 41 of them children. Early investigation is reported to have revealed that the fire alarms were switched off and some fire exits were blocked. There were also reports that some security staff simply ran away.
Traffic Marshalling Offences Lead to Heavy Fines
Royal Mail Group has been fined £1.6 million after a worker acting as yard marshal was seriously injured in a collision with a truck at its Jubilee Royal Mail Centre in London. Royal Mail Group was charged with breaching Section 2.1 of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASAWA) over the accident at the mail centre yard on 12 December 2014. The injured party, employed as a yard marshal, was struck by a 7.5 tonne truck as it left the yard, knocking him unconscious and causing multiple injuries, including a fractured jaw and several fractured ribs.
Recently I was asked by the owner of a new software business who wanted us to handle their content marketing, how we would go about promoting his business.
