If members are planning a new build or conversion, our Health & Safety Consultant, Anthony Acari, says you should be aware of the following documents (below). Sprinkler systems are to be built into all new builds and converted housing from… read more »
New sentencing guidelines for health and safety, food hygiene and corporate manslaughter offences come into force today (February 1, 2016), says CFW health and safety consultant Anthony Acari. The news comes as a Nottingham care home boss was jailed for… read more »
A carer has been awarded more than £50,000 in compensation after plunging down a lift shaft at a nursing home in a fall where her patient died. Carol Conway, 52, survived falling 20ft (6m) at Pontcanna House Care Home, Cardiff, in… read more »
The Health and Safety Executive has issued a reminder to health and social care workers about the risks of scalding and burning, following a recent inquest into the tragic accidental death of a pensioner from scalding burns at a north… read more »
Care homes have been warned to check their window restrictor fittings after a care home was fined for failing to ensure an elderly resident’s safety. The 92-year-old died after she managed to overcome a restrictor device to open a window… read more »
The guidance issued by the Health and Safety Executive and aimed at care home providers and managers has been extensively rewritten. A new version of the guidance was published at the end of June 2014 and contains a number of… read more »
The UK’s biggest care home provider, Four Seasons Health Care (England), has been ordered to pay £170,000 in fines and costs after a vulnerable resident choked to death on fish and chips during an entertainment evening at its premises in… read more »
Our health and safety consultant, Anthony Acari, says the Health and Safety Executive has recently provided a new version of its HSE guide ‘HSG65’ which relates to health and safety management. Anthony Acari said: “The new version of the guide… read more »
A private care home in Wallasey, Merseyside has been ordered to pay £40,000 in fines and costs after it failed to manage the risk of elderly residents catching a potentially fatal form of pneumonia. Mother Redcaps Care Home Ltd was prosecuted… read more »
In conjunction with Public Health Wales and Workboost Wales, Care Forum Wales has produced guidance for health and care providers in Wales to help control Legionella in hot and cold water systems (using temperature control). The guide is available to… read more »