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Olympics

Get ready, set, hold on a minute the water is green? What really did happen the pools in Rio? After offering little clarity about why the water in two Olympic ...

Gold, silver, bronze and green?

environmental / get knowledge / health and safety / Uncategorised

get law savvy (1)

As a self confessed petrol head, I follow the motorbike racing circuit, but find myself constantly faced with the devastating reality of the danger. This month, Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 20 from ...

Spectator Safety at Motor Sporting Events.

get knowledge / health and safety

pharma

A North East pharmaceutical company were fined on 20 September 2014 for a serious safety breach which left a worker fighting for his life in hospital. The employee, from Tyne and Wear, was ...

Pharmaceutical company fined £100,000 after man sprayed by toxic chemical.

environmental / get knowledge / health and safety / stay current

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Dear Carole We are all under huge pressure to check our fleet management software at certain points of the day. I’ve found that keeping the iPad in the cab with me and checking it while ...

Dear Carole… Mobile Device use & driving…

commercial / get knowledge / transport

conditions

What do you ensure within your terms and conditions? Do you ensure that they are ‘fair’ on all parties? What do you consider fair? Do you think that your online terms should be ...

All’s clear in Terms & Conditions…well maybe not.

commercial / stay current

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The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act applies to organisations which cause a person’s death or exhibit a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed to the deceased. In this ...

Breaking down the law: Corporate Manslaughter/ Homicide Part 1

commercial / construction / Energy, oil and gas / environmental / get knowledge / health and safety / transport

CDM

With just under 50 days until the CDM Regulations 2015 potentially come into force and the CDM Regulations 2007 revoked, do you know what needs to happen between then and now? If a project ...

CDM 2015 simplified.

commercial / construction / get knowledge / health and safety

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It's Friday!! And the answer is definitely "YES!!" #lawyersatwork

Champagne?

health and safety, power stations, sentencing

It will be interesting to see whether the recent fine of £5 million on the operator of Alton Towers has any influence on the future approach to be taken by Scottish courts in health and safety ...

The Future of H&S sentencing in Scotland?

environmental / health and safety / stay current

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Are you involved in, or affected by, environmental issues? Do you have opinions on the way environmental cases are currently dealt with? Then the Scottish Government is seeking your views. They ...

Scottish Environmental Issues…

environmental / get knowledge

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A company has been fined £2.6 million after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed in on him. On the 14 April 2010, Mr Sim, a sub-contractor working on behalf of ...

Employee killed in trench collapse

construction / health and safety / stay current

ferguson legal

It’s a double whammy for Ferguson Legal! We've just been announced as AI’s Most Innovative Law Firm in Scotland 2016 along with winning Women in Law’s, Health & Safety Lawyer of the ...

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