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9th February 2022
What’s Happened? A holiday apartments owner and his company have recently been ordered to pay a £12,800 fine for failing to put in place suitable life safety fire safety measures in one of its properties. Fire Safety Breaches The company owns holiday premises in Torquay which consist of separate flats leased out to tenants. Following […]
9th February 2022
What’s Happened? A recycling company has recently been fined £17,500 after an 18-year-old employee was injured whilst clearing a blockage in a waste metal chute. Fall from Height The young employee was injured when he fell through a chute, approximately four metres above a concrete yard, whilst clearing a blockage. In an attempt to break […]
27th January 2022
What’s Happened? A construction company has been sentenced after an employee was fatally injured in Liverpool when he fell six metres through a roof whilst working on a replacement roof project. This was a tragic incident, which resulted in a needless loss of life and could have easily been avoided by properly planning the work […]
12th January 2022
What’s Happening? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is set to clamp down on businesses in Sheffield and Rotherham after a sharp increase in the number of serious and fatal incidents noted by its inspectors within the last five years. 22 inspectors from HSE’s Yorkshire and North East field operations teams plan to visit more […]
5th January 2022
In January 2018 a 74-year-old security guard tragically died after becoming isolated from colleagues following a generator failure at the gatehouse where he was stationed. His employers were fined £100,800 and the construction company they were contracted by £768,000 for breaches of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. Incident The accident happened on […]
15th December 2021
What’s Happened? A Bradford based construction contractor has recently been prosecuted for breaches of health and safety legislation in the first successful prosecution arising from the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Covid ‘spot check’ programme. HSE had carried out more than 316,000 Covid Spot Checks on workplaces since the beginning of the pandemic, with the priority to […]
8th December 2021
What’s Happened? The boss of a car salvage yard has recently been jailed for a year after ignoring a whopping 15 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) enforcement notices served on his scrapyard business. This is an interesting case in that whist no injuries actually occurred from the poor safety standards – the sentencing guidelines are […]
24th November 2021
What’s Happened The Holiday Inn Express in Dunstable has recently been fined following a serious health and safety breach following a serious incident involving a deep fat fryer which resulted in third-degree burns to an employees arms, legs and torso. Incident An untrained member of staff was instructed by a manager to empty and clean […]
17th November 2021
What’s Happened A leading Food manufacturer – Bakkavor has once again appeared in court and been fined £130,000 with costs of £2607 for safety breaches after one of its employees suffered two broken ribs having been crushed within an industrial cooking machine while attempting to clear a blocked water inlet. This is the latest case […]