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    HSE Ladder Exchange encouraging companies to exchange faulty ladders for new ladders with a discount starts today www.ladderstore.com/hse

    Wednesday, 01 September 2010 10:06

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    HSE Ladder Exchange Initiative starts 1st September contact Ladderstore.com for more info.

    Tuesday, 24 August 2010 13:14

Corporate Manslaughter Act Ladder News ViewAt the risk of sounding unnecessarily alarming, we would not be taking our role as a conscientious access solutions provider seriously, if we did not bring to everyone’s notice important legislation as and when it came into being. So here goes - we start with a very important Act affecting all companies and organisations.

This April seems the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and with it responsibilities that if flouted result in unlimited fines.

Ladder Safety HSE ImageThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning of the risks of working at height, after an Essex worker fell from a ladder and suffered severe injuries, including a broken neck.

Lakeside Container Services Ltd, of London Road, Grays, Essex was fined £13,400 with £3,380 costs, at Chelmsford Magistrates Court today (Sep 22). The company pleaded guilty to breaching section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and regulation 6(1) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.

Canadian Ladder Safety AdvertFirst and foremost, we're going to warn you that this video is not one for the faint hearted, it goes further than any advert we have ever seen in depicting a realistic workplace accident involving ladders.

It's from an ad campaign the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario ran at the end of last year. In the video a young, female shop worker falls off a ladder onto a glass display cabinet.