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29 April 2010
The importance of proper driving licence checks was highlighted.........
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24 April 2010
The first electric vehicles from mainstream car manufacturers are due to go on sale..........
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06 April 2010
It is a fact that one in three road accidents involves an employee who drives on behalf of an organisation..........
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11 March 2010
Risk from medication taken by drivers should be part of your Risk Assessments and Policies..........
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11 March 2010
Proposals to simplify motorway speed limits for buses, coaches and heavy goods vehicles..........
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10 March 2010
The pain of all motorist is the dreaded road works and how there is never enough information..........
read more >> - Council worker killed
10 February 2010
It has just been reported that Dudley Metropolitan Council was fined £30,000..........
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Monday, September 06th 2010.
FMS News and Events
Council worker killed by driver
Posted 10 February 2010
It has just been reported that Dudley Metropolitan Council was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Their employee who was the driver of the vehicle, pleaded guilty to two breaches of Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act and was fined £750 and ordered to pay £500 in costs after a manager employed by Dudley Metropolitan Council was killed in an accident at Dudley MBC's Lister Road Depot on 27 October 2006.
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