Personal injury claims involving health and
safety breaches in the construction industry require expert advice from experienced personal injury lawyers.
The oil and gas industry has faced intense scrutiny following major
safety breaches in the Gulf of Mexico and Kalamazoo River.
Not exact matches
Ensuring the
safety and security of payment systems data is essential to reduce the risks from data
breaches while maintaining a healthy pace of growth
in digital payments, the RBI said.
On January 24th, SSEC Canada Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of Sinopec Shanghai Engineering, was fined $ 1.5 million (CAD) after pleading guilty to workplace
safety breaches that resulted
in the deaths of two Chinese temporary workers
in Alberta
in 2007.
The advertising and media trade bodies have started taking action
in response to brand
safety and data
breach issues afflicting YouTube, Google and Facebook, Snapchat and others.
Midland Red (South) Ltd was charged with two health and
safety law
breaches after an inquiry into the deaths
in Coventry city centre
in October 2015.
20 Dec 2017 — The 2 Sisters Food Group, which was at the center of a
safety scandal earlier this year following an undercover expose which revealed poor hygiene standards and serious food
safety breaches, is once again
in the spotlight as media reports claim that Tesco found issues at a second plant where inspectors gave a «red» warning rating to processes at a chicken plant
in Scotland.
I was re-employed on the Wednesday after my Union the GMB stated the company was
in breach of the health and
safety rules, and they would be taking the company to Court and a tribunal.
On 10th November 2010 the ORR began criminal proceedings against Network Rail Infrastructure Limited and Jarvis Rail Limited for
breaches of health and
safety law which caused the Potters Bar derailment on 10th May 2002
in which seven people were killed and many more seriously injured.
In the months that followed, the project saw «schedule delays, Department of Labor violations, multiple breaches of health and safety procedures, lack of proper supervision, and non-responsiveness to requests for corrective action,» OGS said in
In the months that followed, the project saw «schedule delays, Department of Labor violations, multiple
breaches of health and
safety procedures, lack of proper supervision, and non-responsiveness to requests for corrective action,» OGS said
inin a
In the months that followed, the project saw «schedule delays, Department of Labor violations, multiple breaches of health and safety procedures, lack of proper supervision, and non-responsiveness to requests for corrective action,» OGS said in a non-responsibility determination issued this September regarding a project subcontracto
In the months that followed, the project saw «schedule delays, Department of Labor violations, multiple
breaches of health and
safety procedures, lack of proper supervision, and non-responsiveness to requests for corrective action,» OGS said
in a non-responsibility determination issued this September regarding a project subcontracto
in a non-responsibility determination issued this September regarding a project subcontractor.
Gov. Cuomo is suspending the licenses of eight tour bus companies for
safety breaches, the result of a state - wide crackdown following the March bus accident
in the Bronx that killed 15 people.
The Lagos State Government has shut down two water producing factories
in the state, CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science and Technology Company Limited and Figol Water, for
breaching safety standard.
The settlement does give the district attorney the power to monitor compliance and seek penalties
in the case of a
breach, and
safety experts and others — including members of Sangji's union, University Professional and Technical Employees — will probably be watching the results closely.
Members of the Clinical Center's patient advisory group have weighed
in, too, noting
in an open letter yesterday that they are not aware of any patient
safety breaches.
In a
breach of standard
safety procedures, the researcher who carried out the inactivation — identified only by a family name, «Ren» — had not tested whether the virus was truly inactive, according to the panel.
As early as last March, staff were threatening industrial action
in protest over management style; five months later, the Health and
Safety Executive closed the plant for
breaches of employment regulations.
Tainted cucumbers are not the only
breach in food
safety.
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The local fire service will audit schools
in order to ensure compliance — and serious
breaches of fire
safety legislation can invoke prosecution as a number of high street stores have found to their cost.
Serious
breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire
Safety) Order 2005 (or RFO, for short) can have huge implications for schools, with one state school fined # 8,000 in 2009 for a breach of just three fire safety regula
Safety) Order 2005 (or RFO, for short) can have huge implications for schools, with one state school fined # 8,000
in 2009 for a
breach of just three fire
safety regula
safety regulations.
Not providing training, especially on critical Health &
Safety and business protection issues, is not an option (unless you want to end up
in court explaining a
breach of policy, or worse a serious accident and injury).
Corporate learning goals involve pushing the message of improvement
in such areas as sales stats,
safety records, error rates, compliance, customer service, profits, data
breaches, and productivity.
We also excluded cases
in which students allege that school authorities have
breached their duty to maintain
safety in the school and to protect students from harm.
A
breach of health &
safety Children often spend over 10,000 hours
in the school (their workplace) sitting on un ‑ ergonomic furniture, working
in un-ergonomic environments with stale air and spending much too much time
in static postures.
The first step
in creating a safer environment is to review your school's current
safety parameters and policies and gather incident reports, security
breaches, and other troublesome occurrences.
Suddenly a life
in which everything has been considered and exquisitely planned becomes volatile, its
safeties breached, the stakes incalculably high.
Equifax recently suffered one of the largest data
breaches in U.S. history, and with approximately 143 million people affected, it's easy to worry about the
safety of your identity.
HSI supported the establishment of a rescue team — China Animal Protection Power — who liaise with local police to stop trucks crammed with hundreds of dogs headed to slaughterhouses,
in illegal cross-provincial transports that
breach Chinese health and
safety laws.
This was given his view that the building was unsafe, that criminal offences based on
breaches of planning and health and
safety laws had been committed and that Mr Zaman had acted
in a highhanded manner
in ignoring such laws and the interests of his neighbours and the community.
NHS trust Southern Health has been fined # 2m for Health and
Safety at Work
breaches after two patients died
in its care.
If you have been injured
in the workplace or suffered from negligence or a
breach of health and
safety standards you could be entitled to make a personal injury claim.
Possible legal theories that can be argued
in a products liability case include negligence (lack of reasonable care
in the manufacture or sale of the product or
in warning about the product),
breach of warranty (failure to fulfill the terms of a promise regarding the product's performance), misrepresentation (giving consumers a false sense of security about a product's
safety), and strict liability (under which the product's defect, although not the fault of the defendant, rendered the product unreasonably dangerous and the defendant is therefore responsible).
«
Safety issues» are very often a ruse for
in cases for the police to
breach constitutional rights.
A driver who violates traffic
safety laws or drives
in an unsafe manner may have
breached this duty.
In February 2016 a range of new sentencing guidelines for health and
safety breaches came into force meaning companies could face fines of over # 10 million for the most serious
breaches of health and
safety legislation.
In California, you might also hold someone responsible for the
safety failure for negligence or
breach of warranty.
The trial judge awarded damages for wrongful dismissal of 15 months» pay
in lieu of notice, net of Workplace
Safety and Insurance Board [«WSIB»] benefits the appellant received during that period, and $ 10,000
in damages for
breach of the Code.
(3) The jury may also --(a) consider the extent to which the evidence shows that there were attitudes, policies, systems or accepted practices within the organisation that were likely to have encouraged any such failure as is mentioned
in subsection (2), or to have produced tolerance of it; (b) have regard to any health and
safety guidance that relates to the alleged
breach.
Any
breach that occurs
in the chain of truck
safety is considered negligence and the responsible parties can be held liable for your injuries.
in relation to whether an employer's decision to dismiss an employee for a
breach of health and
safety policy justified dismissal
Retailers are being urged by legal experts to make
safety a top priority
in light of the most recent court decision, which saw Hugo Boss fined # 1.2 million for health and
safety breaches following the death of a four - year - old boy.
(a) malfunction of mechanical equipment and recreational apparatus under the control of or maintained by the operator, including vehicles, other than that resulting from misuse by a user; (b) unsafe operation of mechanical equipment or recreational apparatus, including vehicles, by the operator or its employees; (c) unsafe aspects of the structure and condition of an indoor recreational facility that directly affect the
safety of users when actually engaged
in a recreational activity for which the recreational facility is designed or intended; (d) failure by the operator of an outdoor recreational facility to maintain commonly accepted conditions or standards of demarcation, signage, lighting, and monitoring of user activity, for outdoor recreational facilities of comparable size and type; (e) unfitness for normal use, at the time of supply or rental, of equipment or apparatus supplied or rented for use
in connection with a recreational activity; (f) conduct of the operator's employees, acting
in the course of their employment, that results
in personal injury to or death of a user from the sources of risk referred to
in paragraphs (a) to (e); (g)
breach by the operator, or by an employee of the operator, of a specific statutory duty or regulatory requirement relating to
safety in a particular recreational activity.
Obtained favorable ruling from North Carolina Supreme Court on behalf of
safety equipment company
in an electrocution case, which confirmed the defense of contributory negligence
in breach of warranty matters
in North Carolina.
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In addition to the «safety angle», employees are now considering claiming that the employer's actions, resulting in psychological injury, have breached the implied term in their employment contracts of mutual trust and confidenc
In addition to the «
safety angle», employees are now considering claiming that the employer's actions, resulting
in psychological injury, have breached the implied term in their employment contracts of mutual trust and confidenc
in psychological injury, have
breached the implied term
in their employment contracts of mutual trust and confidenc
in their employment contracts of mutual trust and confidence.
In a decision issued in October 2016 (Fournier c. R), the Superior Court of Québec established that, in certain circumstances, an accusation of manslaughter by means of an unlawful act under s. 222 (5) a) of the Criminal Code can be based on a breach of provincial health and safety legislatio
In a decision issued
in October 2016 (Fournier c. R), the Superior Court of Québec established that, in certain circumstances, an accusation of manslaughter by means of an unlawful act under s. 222 (5) a) of the Criminal Code can be based on a breach of provincial health and safety legislatio
in October 2016 (Fournier c. R), the Superior Court of Québec established that,
in certain circumstances, an accusation of manslaughter by means of an unlawful act under s. 222 (5) a) of the Criminal Code can be based on a breach of provincial health and safety legislatio
in certain circumstances, an accusation of manslaughter by means of an unlawful act under s. 222 (5) a) of the Criminal Code can be based on a
breach of provincial health and
safety legislation.
Accidents or a
breach of health and
safety can occur unexpectedly
in a workplace, leading to prosecution and serious consequences for a business.
Represented a refinery service contractor
in a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving claims arising out of the refinery's refusal to pay for services and counterclaims by the refinery relating to alleged
breaches of
safety procedures.
Depending on the nature of the harassment the conduct may also be
in breach of the Ontario Human Rights Code or the Occupational Health and
Safety Act placing the employee at liability under these statutes.
If the harassment includes discriminatory conduct (i.e. sexual harassment, racial or religious slurs etc.) the employer may also face liability under the Ontario Human Rights Code.9 If the harassment includes threats of violence or actual violence, the employer may also be
in breach of the Occupational Health and
Safety Act.10