Q1tum will close for the Christmas and New Year break on Thursday 22nd December 2011, reopening on 3rd January 2012. Enquires and online reservations will be dealt with over this period, in spite...

From April next year the HSE will charge duty-holders who materially breach health and safety law an hourly rate of £124 for its intervention, which will be counted from when a letter or e-mai...

A Birmingham-based social landlord has been fined £100,000 after a man was severely scalded in a bath at a hostel, and later died in hospital from his injuries.   Housing association t...

Boss of electrical services firm admits safety blunder                        ...

Roofer given suspended sentence for friend’s fatal fall                      ...

Past Q1tum graduates of our Nebosh General Certificate programme are being invited along to a presentation ceremony on 13th September 2011 10:00am Cllr Graham Baxter, Leader of NE Derbys District...

Judge slams skip-hire firm for “highly foreseeable” fatality   A judge has said a Salisbury company should be “appalled” that it allowed its employees to implement an...

Four defendants in the dock after worker’s electric shock (click for further information) Two companies, a director, and a sub-contractor have been fined a total of £130,000 follow...

Unsecured scaffold collapsed into residential garden (click for further information)  A Surrey-based scaffolding company has admitted failing to adequately secure a scaffold, which ove...

Gearbox maker failed to identify lifting hazards (click for further information) A machine operator at a gearbox manufacturing factory was crushed to death by a 740kg slab of metal, which had...