Anyone working in the construction industry should be familiar with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM)—they place legal duties on almost everyone involved in construction work.

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.

In December 2014, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) – a tribunal public body responsible for hearing appeals from Employment Tribunals – dismissed an employee’s claim that his privacy had been infringed by his employer and confirmed, more generally, employers’ rights to monitor workplace emails and Internet use when a clear policy is in place.