This National Apprenticeship Week (6-12 February) is a timely reminder to make sure your young workers are receiving the training and supervision they need.
Workers are as likely to have an accident in the first 6 months at a workplace as they are during the whole of the rest of their working life.
Apprentices could be facing unfamiliar risks and are more likely to be new to the workplace. Our website has information on health and safety for apprentices.
We've got a wide range of guidance on our young people at work website, including:
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The company has been fined for a catalogue of failings that included 2 builders being lifted into the air by a raised telehandler bucket.
HSE inspectors visited the housing development and issued the firm with a Prohibition Notice for inadequate scaffolding and Improvement Notices for a lack of welfare facilities and insecure fencing.
Inspectors had visited the site 4 times between November 2018 and August 2021. Repeated breaches were found including:
- a lack of sufficient welfare
- unsuitable controls for work at height
- inadequate protection from silica dust exposure
Read this press release for more details on the incident.
Other recent prosecution cases include:
Since April 2022, HSE has become aware of another 4 cases of motor vehicle repair workers being crushed to death by an incorrectly supported vehicle.
HSE's website has further information, including guidance on working safely under motor vehicles being repaired.
We have also issued a press release with more information about this important issue.
HSE's figures show that:
- 21 workers in the motor vehicle repair industry have been killed in the 5 years to March 2022
- more than half of these deaths (13) were caused when work took place under a vehicle that wasn’t properly supported
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