The number of HSE inspections triggered by tip-offs soared by 43% over the past year, Pinsent Masons has reported.
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More than 9,000 people have signed an IOSH petition calling on the government to abandon plans to scrap health and safety guidance that helps protect employers against prosecution.
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A Cheshire brick manufacturer has been fined £13,500 after a worker fractured his skull and broke a leg when he fell from an industrial brick oven.
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A chemical firm has been fined £120,000 after an employee sustained severe burns when he was engulfed by a fireball at a factory in Wirral.
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Lincolnshire-based Staples Disposables, which makes disposable paper products, has been ordered to pay more than £116,000 in fines and costs, after three workers suffered hand injuries using unguarded machines at its Fulbeck Heath factory.
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HSE has denied accusations of money spinning under Fee for Intervention powers after reports of increasingly hostile inspections from manufacturers.
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A West Midlands' iron foundry has been fined over £10,000 after an employee narrowly escaped falling into a 1400°C stream of molten metal.
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Manufacturers have been billed £291,254 by HSE in the first five months of the FFI scheme, WM can exclusively reveal.
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Easter egg and confectionery manufacturer Kinnerton is expanding and altering its production lines in the pre-Easter rush with little effort by moving machinery around on air skates.
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Industrial crane and hoist manufacturer, Street Crane Company, has launched an initiative to recruit the next generation of engineers to take the business forward.
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Carbon steel component manufacturer CMS Cepcor has two new overhead travelling cranes which, it says, are delivering considerable improvements to production efficiency.
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Elland Steel Structures has been fined £8,000 plus £20,000 costs for serious safety failings, after a worker was left with life-threatening injuries when a 6.5 tonne steel beam fell onto his back.
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The Working at Height (WAH) regulations will not be changed after being cleared of any ambiguity by an HSE investigation.
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Car manufacturer Honda has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a worker lost two fingers at its Swindon plant.
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Cambridge instrument firm Prior Scientific Instruments and a health and safety consultant have both been fined for failing to protect employees from hazardous chemicals.
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Smaller companies are running the risk of unlimited fines, or even prison, by failing to comply with the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) Directive on hazardous substances.
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Egg and dessert distributor Noble Foods has improved efficiency, decreased manual handling and reduced product damage with a fleet of pallet trucks which can be charged on-board its delivery vehicles.
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Cardboard manufacturer Smurfit Kappa has been fined £8,000 plus £14,000 costs after forklift reversed and hit a worker at its Caerphilly factory.
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Johnson Matthey has been fined £20,000 plus costs of £2,194 after an employee sustained serious hand injuries at a plant in Royston, Herts, operated by the company.
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Industrial Anti Corrosives, in Dunnockshaw, has been fined £5,000 plus £3,991 costs, after one of its employees narrowly avoided severing his fingers when his hand came into contact with a rotating blade.
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Wallop Defence Systems (WDS) has been ordered to pay £376,000 in fines and costs for safety failings that caused a fatal explosion at its Hampshire factory.
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Figures published today (31 October) by the Health and Safety Executive show that in the year to March 2012 fewer people were killed or injured at work in the UK compared to 2010/11 and numbers remain below the five-year average.
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Machinery manufacturer Terex has ditched forklifts in favour of two electric-operated tugs to move 16-tonne crushing machines in and out of spray booths.
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Midlands-manufacturer, W P Metals, has been hit with an £8,000 fine after a teenage apprentice's fingers were severed off by poorly guarded machinery.
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Hundreds of UK businesses showed their commitment to forklift truck safety by taking part in the Fork Lift Truck Association's 'Go for Gold' challenge during National Fork Truck Safety Week at the end of last month.
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