Health and Safety

WATCH: Suicide Jumper Caught In Mid-Air

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.05.2013 | UK

This is the incredible moments firefighters in China caught a man trying to jump to his death. The unnamed man is reported to have been a drug addi...

Manorbier Castle Chronicles

Celia Lyttelton | Posted 29.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Celia Lyttelton

While the rest of Britain was icy, Easter came and went in balmy sunshine at Manorbier while restoration works progressed to degree. The 13th century dovecote, coffered with 250 pidgeon or dove cubby holes, like a mini rustic replica of the Pantheon with an open oculus in the domed roof, is clad in hessian and scaffolding.

Manorbier Castle Chronicles

Celia Lyttelton | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Celia Lyttelton

While the rest of Britain was icy, Easter came and went in balmy sunshine at Manorbier while restoration works progressed to degree. The 13th century dovecote, coffered with 250 pidgeon or dove cubby holes, like a mini rustic replica of the Pantheon with an open oculus in the domed roof, is clad in hessian and scaffolding.

'Arm Teachers With Flapjacks,' Say Campaigners

The Huffington Post UK | Andrea Mann | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Comedy

There are calls to arm teachers with flapjacks after a pupil at a school in Canvey Island, Essex was injured by one being thrown at his face. A ba...

School Bans Flapjacks After Pupil Injured

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education

A school has slapped a ban on triangular flapjacks after a pupil sustained injuries from a run-in with the oaty treat. The break-time snack was use...

The Curse Of The Harlem Shake: 15 Australian Miners Sacked After Performing Dance Underground (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 04.03.2013 | UK

Fifteen miners have been sacked for performing the Harlem Shake while working underground. The workers were told they had breached safety regulati...

WATCH: 39 Tonne Runaway Train Shoots Through Busy Tube Stations

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 01.03.2013 | UK

London Underground and its contractors have been fined a total of £300,000 after an engineering train ran out of control for over four miles on the N...

Brighton Beach Christmas Day Swim Cancelled

Huffington Post UK/ PA | Posted 25.12.2012 | UK

Swimmers hoping to take a Christmas Day dip off Brighton today will be disappointed after the council closed the beach because of bad weather. Brig...

Health And Safety Gone Mad

PA/ The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.12.2012 | UK

Bans on yo-yos in playgrounds, knives in kitchens and kettles in offices have all been wrongly blamed on workplace safety laws this year, a new report...

Anna Ryder-Richardson's Zoo Fined £70,0000

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 22.11.2012 | UK

A wildlife park run by TV star Anna Ryder Richardson and her husband has been fined £70,000 for health and safety breaches. Colin MacDougall, the ...

ET Phone Home...

PA | Posted 07.11.2012 | UK

BBC bosses told Professor Brian Cox he could not attempt to listen to a newly discovered planet on TV show Stargazing Live in case aliens breached the...

Leisure Centre Admits Failures That Led To Death

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK

A leisure firm has admitted health and safety charges over the death of seven-year-old girl at a swimming pool. Michelle Gellard was pulled unconsc...

MPs Put EU In A Jam Over 'Unacceptable' Jar Regulation

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK Politics

With two-thirds of the country supporting an EU referendum for the UK, eurosceptic MPs may have hit the tipping point in their fight against the heavy...

Students Banned From Pushing Classmate In Wheelchair..

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Students have been banned from pushing their classmate in his wheelchair as they have not been trained to do so. The secondary school, which will r...

Running, Shoes And Boys: The 'Health And Safety' Bans At School

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 08.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Health and safety are the three words guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of pupils across the UK. The triumvirate is used willy nilly by teac...

Cable Goes To War On Red Tape

PA | Posted 10.09.2012 | UK Politics

Hundreds of thousands of businesses are to be exempted from health and safety inspections under moves announced by the government on Monday. Legisl...

Government's Spin War On Health And Safety 'Monster' Could Harm Workers

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.09.2012 | UK

Deep cuts to health and safety spending are hitting workplaces across the country amid the Government's "damaging spin" over the monitoring of workers...

Metal Paper Fasteners Banned By Health And Safety

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.08.2012 | UK Comedy

Ah, if there's one thing guaranteed to raise our hackles at the start of a busy week, it's a nice, juicy 'health and safety gone mad' story. And, as l...

Seven-Year-Old 'Overdosed On Travel Pills During School Trip'

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 17.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A seven-year-old schoolgirl started hallucinating and "talking to walls" when she overdosed on travel pills after a teacher handed her the whole packe...

Probe Into 'Dangerous Corrosive Acid' Used At Swimming Pool Centre After Pupils Fall Ill

Posted 28.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

An investigation has been launched into why dangerous corrosive acid was used in swimming pool changing rooms after schoolchildren and staff - includi...

School Bans Football During Euro 2012 To 'Stop Children Fighting'

Posted 20.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A primary school has banned football during the duration of the Euro 2012 and encouraged pupils to play chess instead to stop fights breaking out. ...

School Bans Blu-Tack From Classroom As It 'Might Explode'

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 07.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Teachers at a Scottish primary school have been barred from using blu-tack after being told it "might explode" if it comes into contact with glass. ...

Four Dead After Two Cars Collide

PA | Posted 06.06.2012 | UK

Four people have died in a car crash, police said today. A Volkswagen Passat and a Vauxhall Astra collided on the A39 at Cannington, near Bridgwate...

Ikea Fined £75,000 After Two-Year-Old Severs Fingers In Store

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 04.06.2012 | UK

Scandinavian furniture giant Ikea has been fined £75,000 after a two-year-old boy had two of his fingers severed in a "traumatic" accident. The ch...

Celeb Wildlife Park Owner Denies Health And Safety Breaches

PA | Posted 13.07.2012 | Home

A TV presenter turned wildlife park owner who denies breaching health and safety at the animal attraction is back before a court on Monday. Celebri...