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An engineering company in Bedfordshire has been fined £27,200 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found serious shortcomings in how it managed metalworking fluids on its CNC machines. A routine HSE inspection in July 2022 identified that the firm failed to assess risks and control worker exposure

A self-employed contractor, Jason Hill, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after a 19-year-old worker, Thomas “Tom” Neate, died following a fall through an unprotected garage roof while helping with demolition work in Surrey. An HSE investigation found that no fall prevention measures — such as scaffolding, edge protection, or safe work planning