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22nd June 2022
What’s Happened? The Landlord of two properties in South Wales has recently been found guilty of 21 offences relating to fire safety following the conclusion of a week-long Jury trial at Cardiff Crown Court. The offences were significant to life safety, numerous fire safety breaches were identified which included:- Failure to maintain working fire alarms […]
15th June 2022
What’s Happened? A North Wales company that manufactures sofas and chairs has recently been prosecuted after failing to ensure that employees’ exposure to the risks from vibrating tools was sufficiently risk assessed and managed. It transpires that the company had not carried out a thorough risk assessment, didn’t have adequate control measures to manage exposure […]
8th June 2022
A Scottish care provider – The Richmond Fellowship Scotland (RFS), has been found guilty of breaches of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and subsequently fined following the death of a vulnerable adult under their care. Incident On 10th June 2016, a resident at Cherry Tree Court care home drowned […]
25th May 2022
What’s Happened? Two West Yorkshire businesses have recently been fined for health and safety breaches after a HGV driver suffered a fracture to one of his neck vertebrae. On the day of the incident, the delivery driver (an employee of Brighouse Pallet Services Ltd) was working at the Elland site when he was struck by […]
18th May 2022
What’s Happened? A Lancashire based engineering company has recently been fined £500,000 with costs of £145,487 following a fatal incident concerning one of their employees during the maintenance of machinery. The company specialises in the manufacture of containers and drums for the nuclear, aerospace and medical industries. An employee of the business was understood to […]
4th May 2022
What’s Happened? A jam and preserve manufacturer has recently been fined £40,000 after a worker fell from a ladder and suffered multiple fractures. An employee of The Clarendon Food Company Ltd was understood to have been installing a security camera on the outside of their production building. He was using an unsecured ladder. As he […]
20th April 2022
What’s Happened? A landlord and the Responsible Person for an office block in Bedford have recently been fined over £40,000 relating to a number of breaches of the Fire Safety Order. A site audit of the property was undertaken by Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (BFRS) resulted in various deficiencies being identified. As such, both […]
13th April 2022
What’s Happened? A roofer and scaffolder have recently been prosecuted over a fatal fall from the roof of a two-storey terraced house. The incident occurred due to neither contractor putting in place simple preventative measures in place to avoid the incident. Two roofers were working on the property’s roof – a 2 story terraced house […]
6th April 2022
This blog concerns the recently released new standard (BS 8629:2019) which covers ‘the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of evacuation alert systems for use by the Fire and Rescue Service in buildings containing flats.’ which came about after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. What is an evacuation alert system (EAS)? An evacuation alert system is an alarm […]