Category: Burn

Two members of staff in two different outlets suffer serious burns when removing items from microwave

When a risk most of us know and deal with at home was badly managed and led to nearly £1 ...

When the combination of risky working practices, greasy floors and worktops, and hot oil is (excuse the pun) a recipe ...

When a safety consultant would surely not have been happy with what was going on ...

When the client’s kindness exposed her and her grandson to the contractor’s incompetence ...

When being new can mean not knowing how things are done, but the risk should have been controlled anyway ...

When the firewalking organisers weren’t motivated enough to identify the additional risks ...

When a fire risk that surely would have been obvious to everyone, somehow wasn’t obvious enough ...

When poor risk assessment of the task and inadequate training of an inexperienced student meant an accident was probably inevitable ...

When the most basic check to identify the hazard led to physical scarring ...

When two hazards combine to create a foreseeable accident at what was meant to be a happy occasion ...