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	<title>Compensation Blog &#187; Health and Safety Executive</title>
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		<title>Workplace back injury claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back Injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy lifting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manual handling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workplace injuries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Avoiding a back injury at work – and what to do if the worst happens
In most workplaces, there are times when you might have to undertake some form of lifting.  Even in an office environment, printers need to be restocked with paper, files transported about and parcels moved from reception to the relevant department.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government responds to report into construction site accidents</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/government-report-construction-accidents</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/government-report-construction-accidents#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction and demolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Death is too Many]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rita Donaghy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Government responds to report into construction site accidents
The government has announced its response to Rita Donaghy’s 2009 report into deaths and injuries in the UK construction industry.  The Donaghy report, titled ‘One Death is too Many – Inquiring into the Underlying Causes of Construction Fatal Accidents’, was commissioned in 2008 to look at the underlying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shattered Lives campaign &#8211; raising accidents at work awareness</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/shattered-lives-accidents-at-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/shattered-lives-accidents-at-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shattered lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slips and Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips and Slips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[3 fatal accidents at work involving slips, trips and falls in North West last year
1,751 people were seriously injured during accidents at work in the North West last year, according to figures released by the Health and Safety Executive as it stepped up its “Shattered Lives” campaign.  The new campaign is aimed at preventing deaths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foamed Concrete – An accident at work risk to construction workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/foamed-concrete-accident-at-work-construction-workers</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/foamed-concrete-accident-at-work-construction-workers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concrete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction and demolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explosions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydrogen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Explosion at construction site leads to new advice from HSE
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued new guidance for the construction industry relating to the use of a type of concrete, after an explosion injured two workers on a construction site in August last year.
The accident occurred when some concrete that had been poured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE Fines Aviation Company for Accident at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/hse-fines-aviation-company-accident-at-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/hse-fines-aviation-company-accident-at-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accidents in Bristol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aviation Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Breaches in working at height regulations leave worker seriously injured
An aviation company has been fined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an accident at work that left one of its employees unable to work for more than two years.
Air Livery Plc, a Southend Airport-based firm was prosecuted for failing to take the steps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health and Safety Executive launches Ladder Exchange to cut accidents at work</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/health-safety-executive-launches-ladder-exchange-to-cut-accidents-at-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/health-safety-executive-launches-ladder-exchange-to-cut-accidents-at-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ladder Exchange]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New initiative to swap old work equipment for new
In a bid to reduce the number of serious accidents in the workplace, the Health and Safety Executive is launching a Ladder Exchange initiative designed to get businesses and tradesmen to trade in their old and damaged ladders for new ones.  The initiative forms part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£300,000 falling tree injury claim may “open doors”</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/300000-falling-tree-injury-claim-may-%e2%80%9copen-doors%e2%80%9d</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/300000-falling-tree-injury-claim-may-%e2%80%9copen-doors%e2%80%9d#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Liability Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accidents on publicly owned land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falling tree branches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head injuries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Compensation claim could have widespread implications
A claim launched by a teacher from East Sussex could have widespread implications for people injured on publicly-owned land.  Doreen Prior was injured by a falling tree branch whilst on a country walk.  She has launched a £300,000 claim for compensation against the Environment Agency, accusing the agency of breaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>£30,000 fine for company in tragic wall collapse death accident</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/30000-fine-for-company-in-tragic-wall-collapse-death-accident</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/30000-fine-for-company-in-tragic-wall-collapse-death-accident#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accidents in Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Accident in Northern Ireland led to man&#8217;s death
A construction company from Northern Ireland has been fined £30,000 after being found guilty of breaching health and safety regulations in an incident last year that saw one of its employees crushed to death when part of a wall he was demolishing fell on him.  The Health and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noise at work &#8211;  it&#8216;s a pig!</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/noise-at-work-its-a-pig</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/noise-at-work-its-a-pig#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life out in the country isn’t always as quiet as you might expect, at least according to the latest advice from the Health and Safety Executive, who have released a new leaflet ‘Farmwise &#8211; Your Essential Guide to Health and Safety in Agriculture’.  This new leaflet, aimed at farmers and people who work with livestock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minister urges bosses not to neglect health and safety during recession</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/minister-urges-bosses-not-to-neglect-health-and-safety-during-recession</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/minister-urges-bosses-not-to-neglect-health-and-safety-during-recession#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Accident]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the UK currently going through one of the most severe economic downturns in recent times, there is understandably even greater pressure on company bosses to run their business as profitably as possible.  However the pressures on businesses should not be an excuse to cut corners when it comes to the health and safety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accident in supermarket car park leads to substantial compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/accident-in-supermarket-car-park-leads-to-substantial-compensation</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/accident-in-supermarket-car-park-leads-to-substantial-compensation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tripping and Slipping Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A pensioner who tripped on a metal stump in a supermarket car park in the Manchester area has been awarded a substantial five figure settlement after the supermarket admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.  This case highlights the serious implications that can arise where poor construction and maintenance of a business premises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carpenters at greatest risk of asbestos related cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/carpenters-at-greatest-risk-of-asbestos-related-cancer</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/carpenters-at-greatest-risk-of-asbestos-related-cancer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Research UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If ever a reminder was needed of the damaging impact exposure to asbestos has had on industrial workers in the UK, it came in the form of new research published in the British Journal of Cancer recently.  Funded by Cancer Research UK and the Health and Safety Executive, the largest global study of its kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slipping and tripping claims prove costly for employers</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/slipping-and-tripping-claims-prove-costly-for-employers</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/slipping-and-tripping-claims-prove-costly-for-employers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Further warnings of the financial impact on companies who fail to carry out sufficient risk assessment procedures to ensure their employees’ safety have been issued by the Health and Safety Executive as part of its “Shattered Lives” campaign.  The HSE has highlighted the case of a company prosecuted after one of its drivers broke his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health and Safety Executive launches new workplace safety campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/health-and-safety-executive-launches-new-workplace-safety-campaign</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/health-and-safety-executive-launches-new-workplace-safety-campaign#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tripping and Slipping Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new campaign highlighting the risks of slips, trips and falls in the workplace – and the impact they have both in terms of deaths and injuries to the workforce, but also the financial implications for employers.  Last year alone, there were 61 deaths and 14,000 serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos hotspots named by Health and Safety Executive</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestos-hotspots-named-by-health-and-safety-executive</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/asbestos-hotspots-named-by-health-and-safety-executive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asbestos Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbestosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mesothelioma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plymouth, Leeds and Warrington have been named and shamed as the country’s top three asbestos disease hotspots in new figures released by the Health and Safety Executive this month.  The statistics revealed that areas of heavy industry, such as the dockyards at Plymouth, have far higher rates of asbestos related diseases than the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More scaremongering over &#8216;compensation culture&#8217; in schools</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/more-scaremongering-over-compensation-culture-in-schools</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/more-scaremongering-over-compensation-culture-in-schools#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent editorial piece in the Law Society Gazette (29 January 2009) has explored the rise in media reports of a growing “Compensation Culture” in schools, which it is claimed, is forcing the cancellation of school trips and other activities.  In recent years, there has been an increase in reports on personal injury claims on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farming 10 times more deadly than working in heavy industry</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/farming-10-times-more-deadly-than-working-in-heavy-industry</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/farming-10-times-more-deadly-than-working-in-heavy-industry#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Accidents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new campaign launched by the Health and Safety Executive has highlighted the level of deaths and serious injuries in the farming industry.  The “Come Home Safe” campaign is being targeted at 70,000 UK farmers and their employees in an industry that sees 15-20% of all industrial fatalities, despite only employing 1.5% of the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The woes of working at height</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/the-woes-of-working-at-height</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/the-woes-of-working-at-height#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the very obvious dangers posed by working at height, some companies continue to flout health and safety regulations relating to the erection of scaffolding.  This puts not only their employees but also anyone working on the scaffolding at risk of injury.  In the latest such case an East Sussex scaffolding firm were fined £20,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work related deaths fall, but still 229 fatalities in last 12 months</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/work-related-deaths-fall-but-still-229-fatalities-in-last-12-months</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fatal Accident]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown a drop in the numbers of people killed or seriously injured whilst at work.  In the year to April, 229 people lost their lives in accidents at work in the UK, a 5% fall compared to 2006-2007.  The number of people seriously injured stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool crane death shows construction industry risks</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/liverpool-crane-death-shows-construction-industry-risks</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/liverpool-crane-death-shows-construction-industry-risks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The case of a Polish worker killed by a falling crane last year has again hit the headlines after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issued a warning to all crane operators of the potential risks posed to all construction workers from falling objects on building sites in the UK.
The HSE’s update on the case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling accident highlights the dangers of working at height</title>
		<link>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/falling-accident-highlights-the-dangers-of-working-at-height</link>
		<comments>http://www.camplaw.co.uk/blog/falling-accident-highlights-the-dangers-of-working-at-height#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Worrall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falls from Height]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An accident in which a worker fell 15ft through a roof onto a concrete floor has highlighted the importance of implementing safe systems for working at height. The incident happened on the roof of an industrial unit in Uttoxeter and it could have easily resulted in the death of the workman involved. His employers were [...]]]></description>
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