A company has been fined £1.5m after an electrician died in a fall of approximately 8 metres. The electrician was repairing wiring that had been causing a short circuit on the lifting equipment of a large overhead gantry crane. As he walked along the overhead crane's walkway, an access panel gave way beneath his feet, causing him to fall through to the ground below. An investigation by HSE found that the company had failed to maintain the crane walkway's access panels, which had been used to replace lighting fittings some months earlier. Read this press release for more details on this incident. Other recent enforcement news includes:  Electricity is a part of everyday life, but it can kill or severely injure people and cause damage to property. Our electrical safety at work site has advice and resources on how to help reduce the risk of electrical injury. There are simple precautions you can take when working with, or near, electricity to significantly reduce the risk of electrical injury to you and others around you. The site also has helpful resources you can access. Our HSE Inspectors' Guide to Electrical Safety workshop on 11 May will give you a practical understanding of what our inspectors are looking for in the control of general electrical safety risks. | HSE has issued a safety notice about the maintenance of industrial uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. HSE has recently carried out several investigations into dangerous occurrences that resulted from a failure of industrial UPS systems at onshore major hazard establishments. The failure of these industrial UPS systems typically resulted in a loss of power to industrial control systems, emergency shutdown systems and emergency mitigation systems. The HSE investigations identified in all cases that the original equipment manufacturer's maintenance instructions did not provide adequate information to allow the continued safe and reliable operation of the industrial UPS systems before the incident. View the safety notice for full details. The assessment part of HSE's digital MSD tools are now available to use free of charge. The digital versions of the Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC), Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) and Risk Assessment of Pushing and Pulling (RAPP) tools have been designed to simplify the process of completing each assessment. They have a logical step-by-step approach and will save your assessors considerable time in populating the results manually. Employers and safety representatives can use these tools to easily assess the risks posed by physical, strenuous activities. The assessor can then understand, interpret, categorise, and communicate the level of risk. You can access the tools by following the below links: If you want to consolidate your assessments and analyse the results, a premium option of the tool is also available.  Join our team here at HSE and help to protect lives and livelihoods. We currently have a wide range of exciting opportunities. For details of selected posts, follow the links below: View all our current vacancies | | 
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