A West Yorkshire man was given a 12 month prison sentence at Selby Magistrates Court yesterday (10.5) after the Environment Agency found thousands of tyres dumped illegally at a York airfield and other locations around the city.

Paul Ketteridge, aged 51, of Lyndon Avenue, Bramham, Leeds, admitted two waste offences in relation to Tockwith Airfield, and was found guilty after a trial on a charge relating to fly tipping at Goodmanham near Market Weighton.

He also admitted three further waste offences in relation to thousands of tyres dumped at Avenue Road, York and 31 Lyndon Avenue, Bramham.

At the same hearing, Eco Terra Tyres Ltd of Dringthorpe Road, Dringthorpe, also admitted four waste charges relating to tyres at Tockwith airfield, and was fined £400 in total. The magistrates accepted the company had no assets.

Nigel Augustin, prosecuting on behalf of the Environment Agency, told the court that Mr Ketteridge was the director of Eco Terra Tyres Ltd which is registered with the Environment Agency to carry waste.

via Environment Agency – West Yorkshire man sent to prison for operating illegal tyre dump at a York airfield.

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A retail marketing company has been ordered to pay £118,500 in fines and costs for serious safety failings after a worker at its Wakefield printing site was crushed to death.

Bezier Ltd., which employs some 700 people across nine UK sites, failed to heed warnings that could have saved the life of 49-year-old William Aveyard.The platen press involved in the incident after being modified by Bezier to improve the safety features of the machineMr Aveyard, of Shipley, Bradford, was trapped in a hand-fed press at the print site in Balne Lane, Wakefield, on 8 May 2008 and pronounced dead at the scene.Leeds Crown Court heard (15 May) he was using the press to cut out signs printed on corrugated card. It is thought he had climbed onto a moveable platen to remove waste following a misfeed.

Mr Aveyard received fatal injuries when the platen activated crushing him against the fixed press.An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Bezier failed to act on the knowledge they had of a fatal incident at a separate company a year earlier when a worker died after being crushed between the fixed and moveable parts of a similar hand-fed platen press.

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It is not surprising that people are more willing to participate in a task if it does not require too much effort. What is interesting, however, is the way we determine just how easy a task will be and therefore, how motivated we are to complete it. New research from University of Michigan psychologists Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz investigates how thinking about a task (i.e., how complex or simple it will be) affects our attitude toward the task itself.

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http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2012/rnn-sw-rapidhire.htm?eban=rss- A Swindon-based equipment hire company has been fined for continuing unsafe working practices and ignoring safety warnings from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Chippenham Magistrates Court heard today (15 May) that HSE served four Improvement Notices on Rapid Hire (Swindon) Ltd on 12 October 2011 for failing to provide adequate training for operators or forklift trucks and telehandlers, and for failing to provide proper inspections for equipment that was available for hire.The purpose of the Notices was to protect employees and customers from potential injury. Yet when a HSE inspector returned to the company three months later to check compliance, he discovered that dangerous practices were continuing and three of the Notices had been ignored.Rapid Hire, of 14 Devizes Road, Swindon, SN1 4BH, was found guilty of three separate breaches of Section 33(1)(g) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 for failing to comply with the notices.  The company was fined a total of £800 and ordered to pay £1,215.95 in costs.Speaking after the prosecution, HSE inspector Ian Whittles said:

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http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2012/rnn-sco-00312.htm?eban=rss- An Aberdeenshire roofing boss has been fined after one of his workers was seriously injured when he fell five metres from the edge of a flat roof. Alister McNeilly, 26, worked for Brian George Mackie, who traded as Donside Slating which specialises in roofing work. Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that on 10 November 2010, Mr McNeilly was working with a colleague to fix lead onto the flat roof area of a house in Strathdon. Mr McNeilly was throwing lead cut-offs onto the ground while standing on the flat roof when he either slipped or inadvertently stepped off the edge. He lost his balance and fell five metres to the ground, landing on his right side near a skip.His right hip ball joint was severed from his thigh bone and a metal plate and four pins had to be inserted. He was in hospital for four days and was off work for 16 weeks. He has largely made a full recovery but still experiences pain in his hip.Following the incident, an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that no scaffold platform with guard-rails and toe-boards or any other form of fall prevention equipment were in place to prevent falls either from the edges of the flat roof or at the edge of the lower porch roof. The investigation also revealed that Mr Mackie had not been to the site that morning or in the three or four days prior to the incident and had not given any specific instructions about how to do the work. At Aberdeen Sheriff Court today, Brian George Mackie, 43, of Auld Kirk, Rough Park, Strathdon, was fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 4 of The Work at Height Regulations 2005.

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