H&S News October 2007

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According to the Centre for Corporate Accountability (CCA), HSE inspections could be cut back radically if the Government passes a new code for regulators.

Safety campaigners and relatives of workers killed and injured in the Stockline Plastics explosion have condemned the £400,000 fine shared by ICL Plastics and ICL Tech, saying that it is not large enough to act as a deterrent to other companies.

Russells Foods fined £25,000 and costs of £3,514.  Kenneth Johnson had to have his arm amputated after it became caught between the rollers of a dough-milling machine that he was cleaning.  An interlocking device, which should have prevented the rollers running with the guard raised, failed because one end of the guard was broken.  Mr Johnson has been awarded £400,000 in damages.

RMS Construction fined £3,500 and costs of £910.  Two Polish workers were put "in danger of death" when they were sent to clean a fragile roof without supervision, safety equipment or training.  HSE inspectors who had been called to the site to investigate reports served the company with an immediate PN.

The HSE has issued a guide for construction clients on their duties under the CDM Regs 2007.  The guide, 'Want Construction Work Done Safely?' is available free from the HSE website.

Tesco Stores paid £7,000 to Robert Child after the reach truck he was driving at one of its distribution centres was hit by another vehicle, leaving him with neck and back injuries.  In a separate incident, Terry Finch won £4,000 after he slipped on a wet loading ramp, injuring his finger.

An inquest jury has returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Kevin Smith, who fell from the gantry of a lorry he was unsheeting in a Devon quarry owned by E&JW Glendinning.

Landlord Stephen Evans fined £15,000 and ordered to do 200 hours' community work after fire brigade officers attending a small fire at his Manchester flats found a broken alarm, faulty fire doors and defective emergency lights.

Wear Valley District Council fined £18,000 and costs of £7,722.  Maintenance workers alerted the HSE to unmanaged asbestos at the Council's Woodhouse Close Leisure Centre in Bishop Auckland after a routine enquiry revealed a five-year-old survey by the Council that showed high levels of exposed asbestos in the centre's plant room.

MacDonald Hotels and Resorts fined £12,000 after an elderly wedding guest suffered serious injuries including a fractured hip when he fell on unsafe steps.  No documented RA for the steps, which were in a "hazardous condition".

According to a report by Virgin Trains and Network Rail, a "systematic failure in the track patrolling regime" was the main underlying cause of the Grayrigg rail crash in February, in which one passenger was killed and 22 were detained in hospital.

Calendar of new and upcoming legislation.

Mark Tyler picks the bones out of the new Corporate Manslaughter Act.

The retail giant's delivery service has been growing its own driver trainers.  (Sara Bean)

The principle of reducing risk to as low a level as reasonably practicable (ALARP).  (Duncan Spencer)

Safety committees are nothing new, which means they are often undervalued as a way of securing employee involvement.  (Lucie Ponting) 

Why line managers have a pivotal role in providing support to victims of violent incidents at work.  (Brian Edwards)

The best online resources on occup road risk.  (Bridget Leathley)

Specialist police officers are now operating nationwide to advise companies on integrating counter terrorism measures with other health, safety and security arrangements.

HPA has discovered that smoking cessation clinics could allow staff to detect CO poisoning at an early stage.  This was noted when a patient in Surrey continued to have high levels of the gas in his exhaled breath even after quitting smoking.  Further investigations revealed a faulty gas appliance in the patient's home.

On her first day in the office, the HSC's new Chair, Judith Hackitt CBE, has called for more board level engagement and ownership on H&S issues.

Dawson-Wam Ltd fined £100,000 and costs of £76,128.68.  Employee John Walsh was killed when the auger drive unit of a piling rig he was attempting to dismantle flew off its stand and struck him.  Failure to provide adequate instruction and information.

Gazelle Steam Cleaning Services Ltd fined £7,000 and costs of £14,257.  Employee Gary Jaundrill was standing on an aluminium ladder, power washing brickwork he had treated with acid.  The ladder suffered from acid corrosion to such an extent that it snapped in two.  Mr Jaundrill fell approx 3m, suffering permanent disability.  Failure to provide proper instructions or training for the use and care of ladders whilst brick washing.

Craig Isherwood fined £1,500 and costs of £1,500.  Mr Isherwood had been employed to visit the premises in Lowry Walk, Bolton, to carry out the Landlord's Gas Safety Inspection, but had failed to recognise that the water heater in the kitchen was gas powered.  After not being inspected or serviced, the boiler failed catastrophically resulting in CO fumes that affected 14 members of the extended Kara and Mohammed families.

Reps from the Wansbeck business community have joined forces with Wansbeck District Council and the HSE to sign up to a week-long programme of events designed to make the district a safer place to work.  During the week beginning 19th Nov, a series of H&S advice sessions on a range of subjects relating to the main employment sectors in the area will be held.

Stoneswood Construction Ltd fined £9,000 and costs of £5,266.  Ground worker Patrick Gillespie was working on a construction site when he fell, through an asbestos cement roof sheet, some 5-6m to the concrete floor below, seriously injuring himself.  No suitable and sufficient RA.

Fatal injuries and accidents in the road haulage and warehousing sector have cost the UK economy between £117M and £145M over the last five years, and resulted in up to 20 deaths and more than 100,000 accidents.  The startling figures are set to be revealed at a special HSE event on 10th Oct.

Bloom Environmental Ltd fined £12,000 and costs of £3,750.  A routine inspection by the HSE found five employees removing asbestos without taking proper precautions.  The inspector issued a PN, stopping the work.

Richard Lenton, 42, of Coventry, fined £800 and costs of £100.  His colleague, David Griffiths, was seriously injured after he was crushed between two parts of a 1,500 tonne transfer power press when Mr Lenton set the machine into motion without realising Mr Griffiths was inside.  Lack of simple checks.

Wilmott Dixon is just one of the organisations that will be on hand to share their expertise at the Designer Safety Awareness Day on 10th Oct.  The session is free of charge to those in the construction industry.

Dean Soley and his father George, trading as D&G Soley, each fined £500 and costs of £1,000.  Three people were observed working on the roof of a commercial building in Kidderminster, standing close to an unprotected drop while throwing large items of debris into an unprotected skip, approx 30ft below, alongside the pavement where pedestrians were passing.

The HSE is holding a free breakfast seminar between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, on 25th Oct.  The event is aimed at small roofing contractors who have had little or no interaction with the HSE.

Fined £15,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2.  Two operatives were seriously injured when a mezzanine floor they were standing on while demolishing collapsed.  The work, despite being supervised by the director, was not being carried out in accordance with the method statement he had devised.

Found guilty under HASAWA 1974 s3.

Fined £3,300 under CHSWR 1996.  Accident to employee who fell from a fragile roof.

Found guilty and fined costs of £500 under HASAWA 1974 s33.  Unregistered gas work carried out contravening a PN.

Fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3.  Sub-contractor failed to identify and mark the location of a buried intermediate pressure gas main which was then punctured and released a substantial amount of gas.

TNT Logistics UK Ltd fined £120,000 and costs of £28,184.75.  Lorry driver Derek Howe, 56, suffered fatal injuries when he fell off a lorry parked at TNT premises.  He was trying to help free a worktop on the back of the lorry when he fell approx 2m onto the concrete yard.

The London Assembly 7 July Review Committee's follow-up report has concluded that significant improvements to major incident emergency plans and procedures have been made as a result of lessons learned from the emergency response to the 7/7 bombings.

Cockle pickers returned to Morecambe Bay last month for the first time since the new gangmaster licensing legislation was introduced.

IOSH has called for the H&S profession to be officially regulated.  Ray Hurst, IOSH President-Elect, said that regulating the profession was important for raising standards and helping eliminate some of the crazy stories that appear in the media.

The trial of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for an alleged offence under HASAWA 1974, in relation to the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube Station in July 2005, began this month.

New web-based guidance on H&S risk management and disability is available on the HSE website.  The guidance includes expert advice on workplace adjustments, links to relevant government agencies, and up-to-date information to help employers achieve levels of good practice.

BSI has published a 'Code of practice for safety nets on construction sites and other works'.  BS 8411:2007 provides essential guidance and recommendations on the safe use, erection and effective maintenance of safety nets where there is risk of a fall.

According to new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), four out of ten employers believe alcohol misuse is a significant cause of employee absence and lost productivity.  One third of organisations report that drug misuse has a similarly negative effect in the workplace.

Many GPs say they are unsure about the correct advice to give patients on return-to-work issues.  Only 40% of GPs surveyed by Doctors.net.uk said they felt confident when dealing with sickness certification and other related issues.

H&S professionals working in manufacturing are being urged to take part in a new study.  IOSH has commissioned Loughborough University's Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute (ESRI) to investigate the effectiveness of RAs in the workplace.

A new report published by The Work Foundation states that the Government urgently needs to rethink how health agencies co-ordinate treatment of MSDs, and needs to offer greater support to small businesses to manage MSDs in the workplace.

Lack of management skills, authoritarian management styles and personality clashes are the three main factors that senior managers believe lead to bullying in the workplace.

An examination of recent prosecutions involving two of the most significant occup H&S hazards - falling from height and asbestos exposure.  (Edward Hodson)

The air transport industry, working with HSE, has set itself an ambitious target of a 50% reduction in the number of reported MSD injuries by 2010, but there is still a very long way to go if this target is to be achieved.  (Nick Cook)

Alan Newell, H&S manager at NYK Logistics, Derby, explains what action his company has taken to reduce the number of musculoskeletal injuries suffered by drivers when opening and closing trailer curtains on lorries.

Being a seafarer isn't all sea breezes in the hair and salt on the lips.  Sometimes, it means being so tired a grown man could weep.  Or, being so tired, you make a bad decision and someone dies as a result.  The body of evidence relating to the incidence of fatigue - and its consequences - is chillingly large.  (Elizabeth Gates)

This month sees the launch of the HSE's long awaited workplace transport route map - an online signposting tool to legislation, guidance and training, which it is hoped will play a significant role in reducing work-related deaths and injuries.  (Colin Chatten)

A progress report on the National Occup H&S Committee's major inquiry into the various forms of H&S assistance which are currently available to small and medium size enterprises in the UK.  (Roger Bibbings)

An independent evaluation of the HSE's Height Aware campaign has concluded that, overall, it had a positive effect, encouraging "obvious take-up" of its key messages about the risks of falls, including those from a low height.

A new book by David Walters and Theo Nichols from Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences presents still more evidence of the need to reform the legislation governing H&S representation.

According to research by Heriot-Watt University, small firms spend surprisingly little time on H&S activities.  Around 60% spend an hour or less a week, with one in four spending no time at all on H&S.

The HSE and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have made available the content of the Achieving Behavioural Change (ABC) training course that was used during the refurbishment of 900 DWP Jobcentre Plus centres.

Trials with metalworking fluids (MWF) at six engineering plants have resulted in changes in worker behaviour to reduce dermal exposure that were sustained across two follow-up visits.

The HSE has acknowledged that relocating its headquarters and policy staff from London to Bootle is "risky" but says it will improve "joined-up working" and save money.

There was just one incident at a nuclear-licensed installation in the three months to 1 July 2007.  The incident occurred on 20 May at Dounreay while UKAEA personnel performed a radiological survey of a manhole that services an inactive drain line on a part of the site where historic contamination is known to be present.

HSE-commissioned research has found that organisational culture plays a vital role in helping people acquire the "soft" skills necessary for effective worker involvement in H&S.

HSE-commissioned research into the Backs! 2006 campaign has concluded that promoting HSE initiatives through union training courses can be an effective way of enabling union safety reps to take action at work.

Published: 'H&S training: guidelines for the waste management and recycling industry' and 'Managing "task and finish" to reduce safety risks'.

With a new offence of corporate manslaughter finally on the statute book, a look at what it will mean for employers.  (Howard Fidderman)

A tardy memorial to the dozens of workers killed during the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge.  (Becky Allen)

The impact of the ageing process on H&S and whether employers should be doing anything to prepare for this inevitability.  (Becky Allen)

Government proposals to create a single H&S body in the UK.  (Howard Fidderman)

Fatal injuries and accidents in the road haulage and warehousing sector have cost the UK economy between £117 million and £145 million over the last five years, and resulted in up to 20 deaths and more than 100,000 accidents.  In a bid to reach drivers directly, the HSE Roadshow Caravan will be visiting truck stops at various locations in Yorkshire and Humber from 16th - 18th Oct.

RTAL Ltd fined £25,000 and costs of £5,000.  MD Terry Green fined £2,500 and costs of £500.  Andrew George Taylor was fatally injured when he fell some 8m from the edge of a fixed platform.  The protective guardrail had been temporarily removed to install a kiln.

Robert Thomas Charlton, trading as Border Stone Quarries, fined £6,000 and costs of £7,602.  Following a routine unannounced inspection, HSE discovered that an employee had contracted silicosis.  Failure to ensure employees' exposure to RCS (respirable crystalline silica) was adequately controlled, to implement a programme of health surveillance and to notify HSE of a case of ill-health.

Alan Craddock, HSE Head of Operations in the East Midlands is reminding homeowners and landlords across the region of the dangers of CO and the simple steps that can be taken to protect themselves and others from harm.

The unique testing facility is a major investment for the laboratory and recognises the new safety challenges presented by using hydrogen as an alternative fuel.  As a clean fuel with zero carbon emissions, hydrogen is widely seen as the future's premier energy carrier.

Lynn Griffiths, mother of four, whose family of six, including her late husband, have all suffered from the effects of CO poisoning is leading a campaign to raise awareness of the danger.  Lynn will be guest of honour at the launch at the House of Lords on Monday 15th October.

Fined £50,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2.  An employee was working at the premises of Rigid Containers Ltd when he was hit by an employee's car.  G4S failed to ensure that a safe system of work was in operation for their employees.

Fined £65,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3.  An employee of G4S Security Services was working at the premises of Rigid Containers Ltd when he was hit by an employee's car.

Fined total of £5,000 under MHSWR 1999 and PUWER 1998.  IP was using a hand-held circular saw when the retractable guard jammed.  He attempted to free it by pushing it with his left hand, which resulted in him cutting the end off his finger.  Deficiencies in RA, possible contact with blade not adequately considered.

Fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3.  An FLT driver reversed into IP.

Fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2.  The driver of a ride-on pallet truck was injured when the refrigerated trailer in which he was working dropped as it lost pneumatic pressure, causing a gap to open between its own threshold and the edge of a loading bay.  The driver and pallet truck fell down the gap.  Unsafe system of work.

Fined £15,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2.  Counterbalance FLT struck the dismounted driver of a second FLT, severely injuring both legs.  Poor traffic management.

Fined £3,334 under EWR 1989.  Employees contacted live 11kv OHPL whilst carrying out work at Payne School.  Brought lines down.  Power supply disrupted but no-one injured.  Company fell far short of required standard as they did not contact the owner of the lines before commencing work to arrange for lines to be made dead.

Fined £3,334 under EWR 1989.  Employees contacted live 11kv OHPL whilst carrying out work at Payne School.  Brought lines down.  Power supply disrupted but no-one injured.  Company fell far short of required standard as they did not contact the owner of the lines before commencing work to arrange for lines to be made dead.

F J Chalcroft (Construction) Ltd fined £260,000 and costs of £80,000.  Daniel Askew, 22, died when he fell 10m after leaning on an unsecured handrail on the mezzanine area of a cold store under construction at the premises of Phil Hanley Ltd.

Loss of life must not be the price of future success in the construction industry, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Peter Hain, has told stakeholders.  Mr Hain was speaking at the Construction Forum he convened on 17th Sept, following the alarming rise in deaths in the sector last year.

The Government has been called on to extend the Gangmasters Licensing Act to cover rogue employers in the construction industry, following claims of increasing abuse against mainly migrant workers.

A report on the Cumbrian rail crash earlier this year has made a series of recommendations to improve track inspections and maintenance systems across the national network.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found that two-thirds of general practitioners are not conscious that work is beneficial for physical and mental health.  Some 1,500 GPs were questioned by Doctors.net on behalf of the DWP.

Commenting on British Airways' recent £121.5m fine for illegally price-fixing fuel surcharges, IOSH said it was in stark contrast to the fines handed out for H&S offences.  The biggest ever fine for a H&S offence in the UK was the £15m handed out to Transco in 2005 over the Larkhall explosion, which killed four people in 1999.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced proposals for a new requirement for all skilled workers to pass an English-language test before they are permitted to work and reside in the UK.

With a 6.9% decrease in cigarette sales since the introduction of the smoking ban in England and Wales, and an IOSH study showing a 17% drop in heart attack admissions since the Scottish smoking ban was introduced, IOSH and anti-smoking campaigners are celebrating the success of the legislation.

According to research carried out by YouGov for workplace specialists, Croner, almost one in five working adults in the UK does not take any time out in the middle of the day.

According to the CIPD and 'People Management' magazine, despite the fact that many employers believe alcohol and drug misuse among workers has a big impact on absenteeism and productivity, few have effective policies and procedures in place to deal with it.

Deputy director-general of the CBI, John Cridland, said EU pressure to revisit the draft Agency Workers Directive would damage the flexibility that temporary workers offer firms, "hurting the economy and making them far more likely to rely on overtime flexibility from existing workers instead".

Castleway Construction fined £30,000 and costs of £13,715.  George Rogers, 62, was killed when he was thrown from a dumper truck when he hit an inadequately backfilled trench while driving along a haul route.  Mr Rogers was not formally authorised to drive a dumper truck and no precautions had been taken to prevent a fall from the truck.

Can directors be prosecuted under section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act even when they don't actually know about the failing?  (Kevin Bridges)

From ladders to no-smoking rules, H&S is just becoming too much for smaller businesses, says Matt Hardman, who takes a slightly tongue-in-cheek look at what is nevertheless a serious issue.

After two terms in the chair at the HSC, Sir Bill Callaghan is stepping down.  His thoughts on the past, present and future of the UK H&S system.  (Tina Weadick, Godric Jolliffe)

Stephen Asbury looks at the high-risk motor racing industry, and explains how safety improvements at the high end of Formula 1 have permeated throughout other racing series, making deaths now a rarity.

Carbon footprints, energy efficiency, life-cycle analysis - unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you can't fail to have noticed that climate change is everywhere.  Some practical tips for practitioners who want to change worker habits.  (Sarah Perry)

Those who would like to engage help on rehabilitation and job retention issues are sometimes worried about quality and ethical issues on the part of service providers, as the market is currently unregulated.  The recent development of a set of professional standards that should help clarify the situation.  (Jean Brading)

Initiatives to reduce the risks of musculoskeletal disorders are clearly worthwhile from the point of view of improving the health, safety and well-being of people at work.  However, quantifying the business benefits is something that is very rarely done.  Calum Smith reports on his experiences of case-study work, commissioned by the HSE.

HSE is introducing a new strapline into all of its advertising campaigns, starting with workplace transport this autumn.  The idea is to link HSE communications under a recognisable banner and carry a consistent and persuasive underlying theme to the audience.

Whether you're a big business, a small one or self-employed, you have to assess the risks in your workplace.  To help you do this, HSE has launched example RAs for a range of industries, with the help of employers, employees and local authorities.

There are 410 local authorities in Great Britain with responsibility for enforcing H&S in 1.4 million workplaces - so who makes the H&S decisions?  Gerry Kasprzok, from HSE's Local Authority Unit, explains where the responsibilities lie and how HSE and local authorities are working closer than ever before to reduce ill health, injuries and days lost from work.

HSE has launched a new edition of the popular guidance, 'Warehousing and storage: A guide to health and safety'.

HSE has worked with the Fairgrounds and Amusement Parks Joint Advisory Committee to produce the revised guidance, 'Fairgrounds and amusement parks: Managing health and safety.  Guidance on good practice'.

An intensive inspection by the HSE of small firms in the printing industry in Leeds, Wakefield and York last month revealed standards in the region to be generally better than average.  Out of 121 site visits and 81 inspections, 9 enforcement notices were issued at 5 different factories.

The new Chair of the HSC, Judith Hackitt, has called for action to ensure that bureaucracy in the name of H&S does not needlessly interfere with Remembrance Day parades.  She has written to local authorities and others asking for their support in maintaining a proper sense of proportion in the application of H&S to these low risk events.

Figures released by the HSE in 2004/05 showed that transport accounted for 31% of all workplace fatalities.  HSE's ongoing workplace transport campaign aims to help those who are responsible for buying and managing workplace vehicles with simple steps that can be taken to improve the safety of vehicles.

The HSE and EMWWT are hosting a free half-day event on 31st Oct at Bureau Veritas, Nottingham, for small/medium contractors, sole traders and the self-employed in the construction industry, giving them the opportunity to find out about the latest developments in improving H&S.

Noise, manual handling, hand arm vibration, the use of ladders and steps and site welfare are only a few of the important H&S issues to be discussed at a free, half-day HSE awareness event in Kendal on 25th Oct.

The HSE and local authorities in former Avon have teamed up to organise a free event on 24th Oct at the Fry Club and Conference Centre, Somerdale.  The event is aimed at those who have responsibility for H&S in warehouses.  There will be presentations on various issues, including workplace transport, falls from height and manual handling.

Mr Mustaq Bargit, trading as M and B Builders, fined £10,000 and costs of £5,137.73 after he allowed work on a construction site to continue before an asbestos survey was completed.  During a visit, HSE inspectors became concerned that asbestos was present in a building that Mr Bargit's company was working on.  This was later confirmed.

The HSE is running a Farm and Croft Safety Awareness Day at Orkney Auction Mart, Kirkwall, on 24th Oct for local farmers.  Issues such as power take-offs, workplace transport and animal handling will be covered.

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust fined £5,000 and costs of £6,432.  An HSE investigation found that the Trust did not have an effective system to manage asbestos materials at The Groves residential block nor did it control the risk of exposure to asbestos fibre in the building, despite being repeatedly made aware of its presence over a number of years.

Fined total of £6,250 under GSIUR 1998 and HASAWA 1974 s3.  Gordon Skyrme was replacing a chimney when debris fell down and blocked the fire place where a gas fire was positioned.  A CORGI engineer who removed the gas fire believed that the blockage could have killed the occupier.

Fined total of £3,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2 and RIDDOR 1995.  An employee injured their hand on an unguarded slitting blade.  Inadequate guarding, training and communication systems.  Failure to report the accident within 10 days to the Enforcing Authority as required by RIDDOR 1995.

Children across South Bedfordshire were celebrated at an awards ceremony by the District Council on 23 October, after their drawings were published in a calendar to promote health and safety.

HSE is warning employers to ensure that machinery has adequate safety guards and there are safe systems of work in place.  It follows the prosecution of Jennor Timber Ltd of Enfield after a machine operator lost parts of two fingers.  The company was fined £4,000 with costs of £3,921 under HASAWA 1974.

Addressing members of the Quarry Products Association at their annual awards ceremony, HSC Chair, Judith Hackitt CBE, applauded the quarrying industry for achieving a 52% reduction in RIDDOR injuries.

To mark the start of this year's European Week for Safety and Health campaign 'Lighten the Load', Health and Safety Minister Lord McKenzie of Luton joined trade union representatives and the HSE on a unionlearn course.  The course focuses on learning tools to prevent back pain and RSI in the workplace.

HSE has warned care homes across the country that they must stick to the guidance set out by HSE to avoid fatal incidents.  Sussex based nursing care home owners, Alan Lucas and Richard Wooton, were fined £16,000 each plus £22,560 costs after the death of a resident at their Centre.

The HSE, Luton Borough Council and National Back Exchange supported an H&S Awareness Day as part of the European Week for Safety and Health at Work 2007 on 26 October.  Slips, trips and falls were covered, along with manual handling and back care - the theme of this year's Week.

HSE called HMRC to a Crown Censure for failure to comply with a Crown Improvement Notice and failure to ensure reasonable thermal comfort in a call centre in West Lothian.

HSE has joined forces with Local Authorities to undertake a series of joint inspections of carpet warehousing and retail premises in the Thames Gateway area.  The initiative will run for 5 days from 29 October and is part of the HSE's national campaign to reduce injuries and ill health arising from the movement of goods in the logistics, road haulage and goods delivery sector.

The AIAC, which works in partnership with the HSE and HSC to try to improve health and safety in the agriculture land based sector, is meeting in Edinburgh on 29th October.

Fined total of £9,000 under LOLER 1998 and PUWER 1998.  Case resulted from a fatality.

Fined £25,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2.  Prosecution following fatality, unsafe system of work for maintenance on unguarded machine and work at height.

Fined total of £9,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2 and COSHH 2002 (as amended).  Failure to control the risk of the use of isocyanate based paints.

Fined £1,000 under WHR 2005.  Poor demolition practices, roof work with no edge protection.

Fined £30,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2 and s3.  Case resulted from a fatality.