An underground pipe beneath an Exxon gas station burst in 2006, resulting in 26,000 gallons of gasoline escaping and possibly contaminating the local water supply. Now, Exxon Mobil Corporation has been ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion in damages to 160 families and businesses caught up in the incident, which happened 20 miles north of Baltimore, in Jacksonville.
There are jobs which have an element of danger about them and there is only a certain amount which can be done to limit this potential danger. In such cases it is the employer’s responsibility to make the employee aware of the dangers they face and make sure they are comfortable with this before exposing them to the risks. Whether a job is clearly dangerous or not though, there are guidelines laid out for employers to make sure a workplace is as safe a place as possible for employees.
There is always a chance that an accident will occur regardless of where you work. There are of course certain factors which will have an impact on how severe the accident is such as they type of job, the equipment used in the job and what the worker has to do in the job. Although there is always that looming risk of an accident, it does not mean a person can’t prepare and minimise the chance of an accident happening to them whilst at work.
Chemicals associated with alcohol production have been discovered at the site of an explosion that left 5 men dead and another seriously injured. The blast occurred at the Broadfield Lane Industrial Estate in Boston, Lincolnshire, and police have indicated that the evidence appears to support rumours that there was an illegal vodka distillery on the site. The injured man is currently receiving treatment at a specialist burns unit in Birmingham.
There are lots of organisations or industries that would gain from working with commercial cleaning companies, in reality you’d be hard pressed to come up with any commercial organisation that didn’t call for cleaning services of some sort! It is vital that places of work for instance factories, offices, shops, hospitals and car showrooms are kept immaculately clean for the health and safety of all those doing work within or visiting these buildings.
