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EDITOR'S COMMENT
Welcome to the latest e-newsletter from Health & Safety Matters bringing you a selection of the latest news and products.
The Health & Safety Matters team wishes you a wonderful winter break and a Happy New Year.
Georgina Bisby
Group Editor
Health & Safety Matters
POLL
Spend on health & safety in your organisation in 2012 will be?
PAST POLL RESULTS
Are you in favour or proposals to reduce the number of workplace safety inspections?
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DIARY DATES
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NEWS
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Global manufacturer prosecuted over factory worker's death
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A global manufacturer has been fined £180,000 after a worker was killed at an Andrex factory in Barrow-in-Furness...
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Cancer from work can be prevented
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The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) has welcomed the publication of new research to benchmark the preventable causes of cancer in the UK, published in the British Journal of Cancer...
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Stressed-Out Britons will spend Christmas on their smartphones
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New figures show that almost half of work-obsessed Britons will be email watching over the festive period as the recession and eurozone chaos breeds a nation of Christmas neurotics...
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Elf but no safety
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In the case of Dufosse v Melbry Events Ltd, an elderly lady accompanying five members of her family to Santa's grotto at a well known department store in London fell during the visit injuring her leg. She successfully sued the events management company organising the festive treat blaming Santa and his elf for failing to prevent her fall...
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