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Some 3,534 people were fined for possessing and using vapes under the enhanced enforcement framework between September and December 2025. 366 of these offenders were caught with etomidate e-vaporisers, known as Kpods, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Thursday (Jan 29). Since last September, 211 Kpod users and 57

Tarmac has been fined £630,000 after a worker’s legs were crushed between one-tonne metal frames on a production line in Essex. Richard Ogunleye entered a fenced area to clean and inspect frames at the Tarmac Building Products manufacturing facility at Linford in Thurrock, Essex, according to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A Peabody maintenance subsidiary has been fined £400,000 after an employee died from inhaling toxic vapours from flooring adhesive. Darren Nevill was working for Ealing-based Connect Property Services Ltd laying a vinyl bathroom floor at a property in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, on 9 December 2020 when he lost consciousness and collapsed, the Health and Safety Executive

“Earlier that day, boards had been delivered and laid across a large opening in the floor where a staircase was to be installed,” the HSE said. “The boards did not cover the entire opening, and no edge protection had been installed around the remaining gap. There was no signage warning of the danger and Mr

Nine contractors have been issued a total of £950,000 in penalties for employing illegal workers, according to the latest government quarterly update. The firms were named in a Home Office list of companies penalised for employing people with no right to work in the UK… The post Nine firms fined almost £1m for employing illegal

A Dorset contractor has been fined £100,000 after a steel-fixer was crushed by a wall during excavation work, days after consultants raised safety issues on site. According to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 69-year-old Patrick Grant was left with life-changing injuries after the incident at a Matrod Frampton housebuilding site in

A firm acting as a principal contractor has been fined £45,000 after ignoring multiple warnings about site issues from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). An inspection by the HSE to a home-build project being undertaken by Stockport Development Ltd on Kingsley Road, Manchester, in November 2023 uncovered numerous health and safety failings. Officers found

View of the school site where the wall collapsed. Credit: HSE A Bath-based contractor has been fined after one of its workers was crushed to death by a collapsing wall.  Gary Anstey was working for H Mealing & Sons on a construction site at a school in the city when an incomplete and unsupported 1.8-metre