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BHP Group
Nov 2, 20232 min read
We Did It! Reflecting on Our Big Win at the 2023 Southern Enterprise Awards
As a proud Southern England business, we were absolutely thrilled to be named one of the winners at the 2023 Southern Enterprise Awards host
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BHP Group
Jan 10, 20232 min read
Train driver wins unfair dismissal claim despite posting offensive and discriminatory tweets
In November 2022 the Employment Tribunal heard the unfair dismissal claim of an employee of train operator First MTR South Western Trains
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BHP Group
Jun 28, 20193 min read
Blurring of work and home life: are there ‘winners’ and ‘losers’?
The US comedian Carrie Snow once said new technology “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”.
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BHP Group
Jun 13, 20192 min read
Gender-neutral ads to encourage female STEM apprentices
Women represented just under 9% of #STEM apprenticeship starters in 2017/18, according to gender balance campaign group WISE.
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BHP Group
May 24, 20191 min read
Farmer fined after worker suffers fatal fall
Mold Magistrates’ Court heard how on 19 July 2018 self-employed contractor David Alan Rees was fatally injured whilst he was clearing out...
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BHP Group
May 16, 20192 min read
Waste plant fined £500k over fatal wheeled loader crush
George Richardson had worked for Sanders Waste and Plant Management at its site in Pegswood, near Morpeth, for ten years when the accident
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BHP Group
May 2, 20193 min read
Energy giant fined £230,000 for unfairly dismissing employee that ‘HR didn’t know how to deal with’
“One of the UK’s largest energy providers has been ordered to pay an employee £230,000 for unfair dismissal
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BHP Group
Apr 26, 20192 min read
Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops
When asked about economic conditions in the country as a whole 13% of employers said they were getting better, while 44% believed they were.
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BHP Group
Apr 11, 20191 min read
Unguarded machine trapped worker’s hand
On 25 April 2018, an experienced worker was making concrete screen wall blocks at their site in West Sussex
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BHP Group
Mar 27, 20191 min read
HSE’s suite of RIDDOR Forms to be refreshed
These reports simply let the relevant enforcing authority know that an incident has occurred so they can identify where and how risks arise,
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BHP Group
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation
The new limits apply where the event that gives rise to the award or payment occurs on or after 6 April 2019.
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BHP Group
Mar 25, 20191 min read
Change in Enforcement Expectation for Mild Steel Welding Fume
The #HSE states that The #Workplace Health Expert Committee has endorsed the reclassification of mild steel welding fume
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BHP Group
Mar 23, 20193 min read
Ignorance is not bliss
A duty to make reasonable adjustments will arise when an employer has actual or constructive knowledge of an employee’s disability.
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BHP Group
Feb 8, 20192 min read
HMRC should stop its “unreasonable” investigations
n a letter to the HMRC, the #BRC said it was “inappropriate” for enforcement officers to pursue companies for technical breaches
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