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Business Law

Do employers need to teach staff about health and safety?

19th October 2011
The Health and Safety Executive in the United Kingdom recently recorded over 200 people every year are killed whilst executing their working duties. More than 2 million suffer illness, injury or disease which is a cause or aggravated by their working cond...
Author: BeckyJennings
Personal Injury

Food Manufacturer Fined After Employee’s Skull Crushed by Metal Pillar

15th September 2010
One of the UK’s largest food manufacturers has been fined Ł14,000 after one of its workers had his skull crushed by a metal pillar in one of their bakeries. In July 2008, Thomas Williams, 61, had been working with a colleague to remove cages and pillar...
Author: hitsearch
Medical Malpractice

Medical Errors, Mistakes and Misadventures: “What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate”

23rd June 2010
The Institute of Medicine Identifies "Health Illiteracy" as a Root Cause of Medical Error The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report on April 8, 2004 [IOM Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion] stating that as many as 90 million America...
Author: Moshe Sharon