The employee of International Paint Ltd spent eight days in intensive care on life support and has been left with all-over body scarring, partial blindness to one eye, hearing damage, and damage to a knee and shoulder.
We talk about how to ensure a business is secure and how to protect assets and information internally all the time, but we don’t seem to talk about how we protect our assets and information in our personal lives.
A waste firm and its director have been found guilty over the death of a worker who was run over by a reversing lorry.
Yamal Mohamed was fatally injured at a site run by FDS Waste Services in Poole, Dorset, in December 2018.
Siemens Plc has pleaded guilty to breaching s 33(1)(c) of the Health and Safety at Work Act after a self-employed contractor died at its Train Care Facility in west London.
TikTok is a video-sharing application that has surprised the world. Users all over the world, particularly younger generations, have developed a tremendous amount of interest in the app. Notwithstanding, concerns have been raised about the well-being of the application, especially according to digital protection.
Iain Mawson – an aircraft engineer employed by British Airways Maintenance Cardiff (BAMC) Ltd – fell from a maintenance dock at BAMC’s facility in Cardiff whilst inspecting the wing of a Boeing 747. Such was the extent of his injuries, including multiple skull fractures and a brain haemorrhage, Iain was placed into an induced coma for three weeks and has not returned to work since.
Penetration Testing, also known as Pen Testing is a process that involves a real-world simulated attack on a network, application or device. The main object of Pen Testing is to reveal unknown vulnerabilities that hackers/cybercriminals are able to exploit to gain unauthorised access, disrupt critical services or even steal data.
A factory that makes M&Ms and Mars Bars has been fined more than £12,000 after an accident in which two workers fell into a vat of chocolate and were injured.
Budgeting for cyber security often goes on either side of the spectrum of spending, some businesses want to contribute the bare minimum and some businesses throw a ridiculous amount at security (often following a breach).
Birch Brothers (Kidderminster) Ltd was the principal contractor on a construction project in Derbyshire that was building a concrete overflow weir structure on the site. The Midlands firm had brought in steel fixers and joiners to undertake the work.
Chipboard manufacturer Norbord Europe Limited has been fined £2.15m after a four-week trial held at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland found that a series of failings at its Cowie site in Stirlingshire had led to an employee’s death. Sixty-four-year-old George Laird sustained severe burns to 90% his body after being ‘enveloped’ in hot water, steam and ash and died in hospital the next day from his injuries.
As technology advances and companies rely more and more on digital storage and data, the risk of data breaches has become a growing concern. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for companies’ databases to be breached, leaving sensitive information vulnerable to cybercriminals.
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