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  • Clean Care is Safer Care

    Clean Care is Safer Care

    05 May 2010

    The World Health Organisation's global observation survey on hand hygiene compliance starts today. How do organisations ensure sustainable hand hygiene improvement?
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  • Security breaches cost UK businesses billions

    Security breaches cost UK businesses billions

    29 Apr 2010

    Effective threat protection requires the right security behaviour says PWC Information Security Breaches survey 2010.
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  • Records found in second-hand filing cabinet

    Records found in second-hand filing cabinet

    18 Jan 2010

    The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Lancashire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act after sensitive personal data found in a second-hand filing cabinet purchased by a member of the public.
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  • Concerns raised over body scanners

    Concerns raised over body scanners

    17 Jan 2010

    Department of Transport to create code of conduct to allay concerns about the threat to privacy when body scanners are introduced in UK airports.
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  • Data breaches to incur £500,000 penalty

    Data breaches to incur £500,000 penalty

    12 Jan 2010

    New powers, designed to deter personal data security breaches, are expected to come into force on 6 April 2010. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will be able to order organisations to pay up to £500,000 as a penalty for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.
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  • Banks breaking FSA rules

    Banks breaking FSA rules

    09 Jan 2010

    Bank fails to reimburse customer for unauthorised transaction in accordance with FSA rule.
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  • Centre health and safety breach

    Centre health and safety breach

    26 Nov 2009

    A government research centre in Suffolk breached health and safety rules on cancer-causing substances during an inspection in 2007.
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  • Firms fined £126,000 over death

    Firms fined £126,000 over death

    23 Nov 2009

    John Robinson left a widow, three children and six grandchildren. Two firms have been fined a total of £126,000 after the death of a workman at a hotel in Buckinghamshire.
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  • Oil giant guilty over Buncefield

    Oil giant guilty over Buncefield

    13 Nov 2009

    Oil giant Total UK has pleaded guilty to charges relating to the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire in 2005.
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  • Pc jailed for illegal data checks

    Pc jailed for illegal data checks

    11 Sep 2009

    A former Hertfordshire police officer who regularly fed confidential information to criminal contacts has been jailed for 18 months.
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