Steel producer sentenced for workers’ molten metal burns A multinational steel producer was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £11,190 in costs after three employees in its Port Talbot refinery suffered serious burns from several tonnes of molten metal that had spilt on the floor.

The International Organisation for Standardisation is replacing BS OHSAS with ISO 45001 as the definitive international occupational health and safety management system standard by the end of 2016.

Occupational cancer is any cancer caused wholly or partly by exposure to carcinogens at work.

The findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey 2014 have business owners and high-level employees reassessing their organisations’ protections against economic crime.

Energy costs can be a significant drain on any business, but especially on SMEs, which typically have narrower profit margins than larger businesses.