Health And Safety

  • EntertainmentYahoo Life UK

    Blogger criticised for leaning out of moving train to get the perfect Instagram shot

    How far are you willing to go in the name of Instagram?

  • HealthAOL

    Seven crazy 'health and safety' decisions

    Last month, we reported on the case of train passenger Peter Kohler, who was refused permission to order a coffee and drink it from his own mug. Virgin Trains justified the decision by saying that Mr Kohler's mug hadn't been

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  • NewsAOL

    Train passenger banned from using his own mug

    A Virgin Trains passenger has been refused permission to order a coffee and drink it from his own mug - because it hadn't been risk-assessed. Peter Kohler was travelling from Edinburgh to London on the Virgin Trains East Coast service

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  • NewsAOL

    Farmer fined over killer cows

    A farmer has been fined £30,000 after a herd of cows he knew to be dangerous trampled and killed a rambler. Mike Porter, 66, and his brother John were walking their dogs, which were on leads, on a public footpath in a field where cows with

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  • NewsAOL

    Doormat seized as 'health and safety risk'

    A council confiscated a young couple's doormat and then demanded £40 for its return, after claiming it was a health and safety hazard. Ashley Tofte and his fiancée Jade Bunce, both 24, arrived home at their two-bedroom flat in

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  • NewsAOL

    Council bans strimmers over health and safety fears

    Cheshire East Council has banned its workers from strimming the grass and weeds on verges around some of the poshest parts of the North West. Apparently, despite the fact that most homeowners have a strimmer tucked away in the shed, professionals

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  • BusinessAOL

    Hugo Boss admits safety breaches over in-store death

    Designer brand Hugo Boss has admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the death of a four-year-old boy who was crushed to death when an 18-stone mirror fell on him. Austen Harrison (pictured above) suffered "devastating"

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