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From April this year, the Health and safety Executive (HSE) will charge duty holders who materially breach health and safety law an hourly rate of £124 for its intervention, which will be counted from when a letter of e-mail recording the duty holders breach is sent.
Tufnells Parcels Express Ltd of Sheffield has admitted breaching S.2.(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and has been fined £150,000 plus costs of £19,000 in connection with an industrial accident at its West Horndon, Essex, depot.
The number of people killed at work in Britain last year rose by 16%, prompting renewed calls on the Government to rethink its strategy to reduce health and safety activity and resources.
A street cleaner’s cut little finger is set to cost Hull City Council more than £100,000 after a court ruled he had been issued the wrong gloves.
At Chester Crown Court, the owner of P and S Ashley Timberworks Ltd of Sandbach has been fined £80K after pleading guilty to 8 breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
A labourer sustained a serious electrical shock because electrical equipment was not properly maintained.
C.M.A. Tools (Burnley) Ltd has been fined £1,000 plus £1,000 costs for breaching health and safety law in the circumstances of an industrial accident in which an employee sustained a serious injury to his hand.
A vehicle hire company’s failure to control traffic at its poorly organized yard in West London has cost it nearly £8,000 after a Ford Transit tipper hit and injured a worker. Hampshire based SHB Hire was fined £5,000 plus £2,815 costs at Westminster Magistrates Court after it admitted failing to ensure employees’ safety contrary to Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
A company in Warrington has been fined £200,000 following the death of an employee.
According to St John Ambulance, many companies are inadvertently breaking health and safety laws by not training enough staff in first aid.
A property company which failed to manage a construction project properly and employed a contractor without checking his competence, has been ordered to pay over £11,000 in fines and costs for offences under the CDM Regulations 2007.
There was an abrupt and unfortunate rise in construction deaths in the late months of last year, according to figures revealed at January’s HSE board meeting.
Eco-Oil of Canterbury, Kent, and one of its directors have been prosecuted over failings that led to an explosion and fire at its waste oil processing site in Rochester in March 2007 when a tank holding 300,000 litres of oil exploded.
At this time major changes were being implemented and a welder was welding a tank roof when the explosion occurred.
The company was fined £125,000 with costs of £20,000, its director was fined £5,000 with costs of £500. An HSE inspector commented: “The incident occurred because the site operator lost control of what its contractor was doing. It was miraculous that the person on the tank at the time it exploded was not killed”.
A coroner presiding over the fatal accident inquest into the death of a bus mechanic is to raise the issue of lone working with the HSE. The jury determined accidental death; the deceased was found under a bus in January this year at the Arriva depot in Oswestry. It was speculated that he may have forgotten to reapply the handbrake after trying to move the bus which had, it is believed, rolled on to him, but not over him.
November 2009
Integrated Packaging Ltd of Team Valley Trading estate, Gateshead has been fined £1,000 with £2,734 costs after an employee put his hand into a machine to remove a jammed item, but suffered friction burns and a fracture to his wrist when it became jammed between a suction table conveyor belt and a delivery table conveyor belt.
The October 2008 incident put the company in breach of rule 11 (1) of the Provision of Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 in that it failed to ensure that effective measures were taken to prevent access by employees to dangerous parts of machinery.
November 2009
