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The article focuses on learning from corporate manslaughter cases concerning nursery operator PS & JE Ward Ltd. and mining company MNS Mining Ltd. under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. It mentions that PS & JE Ward Ltd. was convicted under the back-up Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in April 2014 and fined 50,000 pounds. It states that MNS Mining's mine manager have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter for the death of four miners in Wales.

The article offers news briefs related to health and safety in Great Britain which include an imprisoned builder for illegal gas repairs and, a severed worker in the arm due to a faulty machine, and the prosecution of a property maintenance firm due to failure of offering edge protection.

The article reports on a property developer in Wales, Michael Murton, who has been handed with multiple suspended prison sentenced for failure of identifying the presence of asbestos at a construction site before proceeding to work.

The article announces that the Piperdam Gold and Leisure Resort, an exclusive leisure resort in Dundee, Scotland has been fined with 120,000 pounds for inadequate controls preventing Legionnaires' Disease over the death of one of its resort guest, Edward Warnes.

The article offers news briefs related to industrial health and safety cases in Great Britain in 2011 including a company's failure to monitor the work for its contractors, an asbestos exposure case against a roofing firm, and a company which allowed the use of flammable chemicals in open fire.