Safety Smart Update Winter 2025
8th December 2025 Posted in Blogs
Welcome to Safety Smart’s Winter Update.
In this edition, we’re digging into the latest Health and Safety statistics from HSE and taking a look at the fire risks of Christmas trees, plus workers health hits the big screen in Trigger Point and our usual round-up of news and case studies.
We’ve also got our Christmas appeal for Zarach so please do take a look and donate if you can to support a child in need this Christmas.
Construction’s non fatal injury rate is significantly high compared to all industries
New construction statistics for Great Britain published last month reveal that the equivalent of 1 in 40 workers in the sector sustained a non-fatal workplace injury over a three-year period up to March 2025.
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Christmas Trees: Avoid a festive fire hazard
Artificial or real? Modern artificial trees are usually fire-retardant or resistant – but do look at the packaging to check. If you have an older artificial tree, it might be time to consider replacing it.
If you opt for a real Christmas tree, it can be more of a fire hazard than an artificial one. Dried-out Christmas trees burn fast and fiercely
Workers health makes high octane drama
Occupational safety and health (OSH) may rarely feel thrilling, though corporate negligence and mesothelioma have appeared in TV drama before, writes IOSH’s Laura Wilding. Series three of Trigger Point puts them front and centre – with an added twist.
Support A Child In Need This Christmas
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Industry News
Roofer sentenced for refusing to co-operate with HSE
A Cornish roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from an inspector for Britain’s workplace regulator.
Fine for company after man seriously injured at wind farm
A wind farm management services company has been fined £80,000 after a worker was seriously injured by an electrical flashover.
Natural Power Services Limited had sent the then 38-year-old to carry out maintenance work in an electrical substation within the Tom Nan Clach Wind Farm, near Inverness.
Companies fined after apprentice fell from height installing CCTV
Two companies have been fined after an apprentice fell from height while installing CCTV in Weymouth.
The then 20-year-old electrical apprentice had been working for Tristan G Murless Limited at one of their sites at a commercial industrial estate at Lynch Lane on 13 July 2022.
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