The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2007 mean that, from 1 October 2007, people who have sensorineural symptoms of the severity described in the regulations arising from working with the prescribed tools will now be covered by the terms of the prescription, whether or not they have the prescribed vascular symptoms.
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After a lapse of almost a year, HSE is again posting prosecutions. They have begun inputting cases with hearing dates after November 1, 2006, and say they will update new cases weekly as they are reported. “In view of the volume of prosecutions now posted, we are not inputting previous cases. There will therefore be a gap in our database from a hearing date of 24 January 2006 until November 1st. Anyone not finding a case which may have been heard between January and November 2006, should therefore try searching the HSE Prosecutions database.”
Since relaunching the Prosecution database in January 2007, after a break of around a year, the HSE appears to have changed the format of the case numbers. So, for entries with a hearing date before the 24 January 2006, you should search the database with the defendants name, instead of a case number that you may have, if you desire to check details for yourself.
News From HASTAM, at http://www.hastam.co.uk/hsnews/
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