The Agency Workers Directive will be implemented in the UK on 1 October 2011 through the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. The purpose of the Directive is to provide temporary agency workers with equal treatment in terms of basic working and employment conditions as if they had been employed directly to do the same job. This… Read more »
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Personal Accident – An Overlooked Insurance?
The Dilemma How would your business cope if a member of staff was injured and unable to work for a few weeks or a few months? Would you like to provide a lump sum payment to your staff if they were permanently injured? The Solution Personal Accident insurance can pay a weekly amount for up… Read more »
Take Extra Care with New Staff
With school leavers hitting the workplace, now is an even more important time to protect them against accidents. A recent Health & Safety Executive document warned that workers are as likely to have an accident in the first six months at a workplace as during the whole of the rest of their working life. The… Read more »
Stourbridge firm fined after man’s thumb amputated
The penalties of not carrying out risk assessments or not having correct insurance. A Stourbridge engineering firm has been fined after an employee lost his thumb when it was crushed during a lifting operation. The employee, a 55-year-old mechanical engineer at the firm, was using a rope sling attached to a crane to lift a… Read more »