H&S
News August 2010
| Title | Comments | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| Distribution company's failure led to Cornish vineyard owner's death. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Gregory Distribution Ltd fined £200,000 with costs of £16,993 under HASAWA 1974 s3. The owner of a Cornish vineyard, George Musgrove, died when helping to unload a delivery of empty wine bottles from the back of a Gregory Distributions lorry, driven by an agency driver. The load crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of the lorry. Mr Musgrove suffered fatal head and chest injuries. | HSE (National) Press Release WW826 4/8/10 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/haulage/index.htm |
| Work starts on safety peer review. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Lord Young of Graffham has begun taking evidence from safety practitioners and institutions for his review of H&S regulation and practice. The conservative peer is holding face-to-face meetings and taking written submissions for a report due later in the summer. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:4 |
| Consultants register due in six months. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The HSE intends to set up a registration scheme for safety consultants by January 2011. The voluntary scheme will create a register of consultants accredited to give employers competent advice. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:5 |
| Manufacturing sick days down for third year. Week ending 06/08/10 |
According to the latest annual absence survey from EEF and Unison, sickness absence among manufacturing employees fell for the third year in a row in 2009. The average employee took 5.6 days off sick in 2009 compared with 6.8 for 2007. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:8 |
| Van loading guide. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The Freight Transport Association has issued a free best practice guide to safe van loading, with advice on load restraint, including lashing, netting and sheeting and anchorage points. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:8 Internet: www.fta.co.uk or Tel 01892 526171 |
| Directors' duties committee makes final report. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The steering group advising the HSE's executive board in its decision on whether to recommend a legal duty on company directors to protect workers has delivered its final report. The report paves the way for the board to decide whether to recommend a new duty to ministers. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:9 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/leadership/steering-group-report.pdf |
| £100k asbestos payout for Cadbury worker. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Cadbury has paid a former publications officer £100,000 in compensation after he developed the fatal asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. Brian Harrison worked for the firm between 1954 and 1962 when he spent much of his time interviewing colleagues, some of whom had been stripping and repairing asbestos insulated pipe, to write stories for the monthly works magazine. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:10 |
| Legislative calendar. Week ending 06/08/10 |
A calendar of new and upcoming legislation. | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:11 |
| Sheltering youth. Week ending 06/08/10 |
A report from a British Safety Council seminar on safeguarding young workers. (Louis Wustemann) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:12 |
| Unsteady steps. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Questioning the efficacy of the HSE's recommended risk assessment technique. (Duncan Spencer) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:18-19 |
| A day with the HSE. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Shadowing HSE inspector Steven Kay on a busy day on his Rotherham patch. (Andrea Oates) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:20-22 |
| The reel thing. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Some professional tips on making your own safety videos. (Outtakes) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:26-27,29 |
| Close fitting. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Training messages only really stick if they challenge employees and suit their learning preferences. (David Towlson) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:30,32 |
| Immoral fibre. Week ending 06/08/10 |
In the latest revision article for the NEBOSH National Diploma, a summary of the duty to locate and manage what the HSE calls the "hidden killer". (Lawrence Bamber) | Health and Safety at Work August 2010:35-36,38 |
| Director duty prevarication continues. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The final evaluation of the impact of the 2007 HSE/Institute of Directors guidance or directors in health and safety has, claims the HSE, proved "inconclusive". The evaluation is based on two surveys of directors undertaken 9 and 21 months after the publication of the guidance. The results, it claims, show statistically significant increases in all three evaluation criteria (percentages of directors: aware of the guidance, have read it, and have subsequently taken action). Six in ten directors remain unaware of the guidance. | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):1 |
| HSE prosecutions plummet to all-time low. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The number of prosecutions that the HSE's Field Operations Directorate managed to take in the 12 months to April 2010 was less than half the total it managed in 1999/2000. The ten year period also saw a 13 per cent decline in the number of enforcement notices issued. | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):2 "Review of enforcement by FOD" Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/hseboard/2010/300610/pjunb1054.pdf |
| Agriculture - alert. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The HSE has extended a construction industry warning about semi-automatic quick hitches to the agriculture industry. Farmers, say the HSE, should not use the hitches if they are missing a retaining pin. | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):5 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/construction/safetytopics/quickhitches.htm |
| COSHH - ACoP. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The HSE expects to issue a consultation document before September on minor revisions to the ACoP and guidance on the COSHH Regulations 2002. The new ACoP will come into force on 6 April 2011. | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):5 |
| COSHH - semiconductors. Week ending 06/08/10 |
HSE inspections in 2009 of all 17 medium and large semiconductor (silicon chip) manufacturers in the UK have found that, in general, arrangements for the control of hazardous substances, as well as for general H&S issues, were "satisfactory". Concerns about the high incidence of certain types of cancer at National Semiconductors UK (NSUK) in Greenwich led the HSE to investigate cancer incidence and mortality of NSUK workers in 1998 | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):5-6 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/engineering/semiconductor-manufacturers-report.pdf |
| RIDDOR - selection criteria. Week ending 06/08/10 |
An HSE review of the criteria it uses to select which incidents to investigate once they are reported has concluded they are "fit for purpose". However, the review has recommended several changes to the detail. | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):6 www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/hseboard/2010/300610/pjunb1053.pdf |
| Death toll reaches record low. Week ending 06/08/10 |
The number of fatal injuries at work has fallen significantly again. (Howard Fidderman) | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):7-8 |
| The truth about absence. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Absence figures may not be what they seem. (Howard Fidderman) | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):9-12 |
| Managing workplace risks - a pan-European picture. Week ending 06/08/10 |
A major new survey of safety managers and representatives. (Lucinda Ponting) | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):13-16 |
| Court digs deep to set fine. Week ending 06/08/10 |
A Scottish appeal court decision that increased a fine by a factor of eight. (Howard Fidderman) | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):17-18 |
| A "new look" at sentencing. Week ending 06/08/10 |
A look at a significant Court of Appeal judgment on fixing a fire-safety fine. (Howard Fidderman) | Health and Safety Bulletin August/September 2010 (391):19-24 |
| Maintenance job leaves man with a broken neck. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Klarius UK Ltd fined £8,000 and costs of £1,892 under WHR 2005. Employee Barry Derbyshire, 61, was carrying out routine maintenance on a machine used to make exhaust pipes when he fell more than 2 metres from a scaffold tower, fracturing one vertebra, crushing another and leaving him immobilised for more than 6 weeks. It was a regular job carried out by a number of people on 3 similar machines. Mr Derbyshire had been stooping down to try and locate an oil leak when he stood up and possibly overbalanced, falling off the edge. HSE revealed there had never been a guardrail on one edge of the scaffold as it was felt it would interfere with access to the machines. | HSE (National) Press Release WM194/10 3/8/10 |
| Unregistered fitter prosecuted over defective gas boiler. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Michael Huggins fined £800 and costs of £200 under GSIUR 1998. He potentially put lives at risk by fitting a replacement gas fire in a domestic property despite not being a member of CORGI. The incident came to light after Mr Huggins carried out the work at the domestic property which was later found to be defective. Mr Huggins had previously agreed with the HSE not to carry out gas work unless he was registered with CORGI, the recognised safety body, (now the Gas Safe Register). | HSE (National) Press Release 827/SWW/10 5/8/10 |
| Company and director prosecuted after staff exposed to high levels of lead. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Anglia Lead Ltd fined £10,000 and full costs of £10,556 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Director Carlton Edwards fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. The sheet metal manufacturing company and its director exposed workers to high levels of lead at its factory, as they cast molten lead into lead sheeting. The company had numerous H&S failings. Workers could have breathed in lead dust, absorbed the substance into their skins, or ingested it orally, for example when they ate, drank or smoked a cigarette during breaks or even after work hours washing their hands. | HSE (National) Press Release HSE-E-22 5/8/10 |
| Companies fined after 44 tonne machine crashes onto Hull road. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering Ltd (previously known as Stent Foundations Ltd) fined £25,000 and costs of £17,676 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Multibuild Ltd fined £20,000 and costs of £18,687 under HASAWA 1974 s3. A 44 tonne piling machine, used to drive building supports into the ground, crashed onto a busy main road when it fell over and rolled across the road before crushing a wall opposite during the evening rush hour. HSE found the main contractor, Multibuild Ltd, was responsible for providing a stone platform for the machine to work from, but had failed to design or install it correctly. Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering Ltd, as a specialist sub-contractor, had the responsibility for safely carrying out the work. | HSE (National) Press Release YH/199/10 5/8/10 |
| Warning that construction sites aren't child's play. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Building sites are not adventure playgrounds. That is the HSE message to parents and children as school holidays get well underway in Britain. HSE is encouraging parents to warn their children of the dangers of playing on them, after one child died and 25 were injured on construction sites in 2008/9. Dozens more children are seriously injured on sites every year. Companies are being reminded that sites should be secure, with good fencing to prevent public access and with regular checks carried out. | HSE (National) Press Release 5/8/10 |
| Gas fitter put farm workers at serious risk. Week ending 06/08/10 |
Roger David Manning, 60, fined a total of £2,000 and costs of £1,600 under HASAWA 1974 s7 and GSIUR 1998. HSE prosecuted after a string of faults, including failure to carry out a number of safety critical checks in caravans used to house migrant workers. A series of deficiencies in his work included the faulty capping of gas installation pipe work, incorrect calculation of ventilation requirements and discoloured and unmarked flexible gas hosing. | HSE (West Midlands) Press Release 2/8/10 |
| S F P Inspection and Consultancy Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £750 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Anthony Sidney Reen t/a SFP Inspection failed to ensure SFAIRP that other persons who may be affected were not exposed to risks to their H&S in that he failed to carry out proper examinations of the boiler of a steam railway locomotive known as Ivor The Engine. | HSE Prosecution 4137528 24/5/10 |
| SITA UK Limited Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £210,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Driver of a waste lorry was fatally injured whilst unloading at the site when he was crushed between the front of his vehicle and the rear of a tracked bulldozer, his lorry having been pushed from the rear by the waste site compactor vehicle. SITA UK Ltd did not have a clear system of work for assisting lorries with insufficient traction and poor levels of supervision on the site allowed these unsafe practices to remain unidentified. | HSE Prosecution 4147724 24/5/10 |
| Moor Park Charitable Trust Ltd Week ending 06/08/10 |
Guilty under HASAWA 1974 s3. DP and others involved in demolition of wooden classroom when it collapsed. | HSE Prosecution 4193968 24/5/10 |
| Anthony George Grove Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined a total of £850 under HASAWA 1974 s3 and GSIUR 1998. Unsafe gas work. | HSE Prosecution 4196037 24/5/10 |
| Bridgend County Borough Council Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £10,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. IP sustained injuries to his lower left leg. Dumper truck he was operating in woodland overturned, trapping him against a tree. The IP had been required to follow an unsafe system of work as the risks associated with the work activity he was undertaking had not been suitably assessed, whilst the plant he was operating was not suitable for the gradient of the land he was working on. Bridgend County Borough Council failed to ensure, so far as was reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all its employees. | HSE Prosecution 4201455 24/5/10 |
| Roydon Granulation Ltd Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £15,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. An employee suffered an amputated finger when he put his hand in a machine which was being repaired by an engineer. There was a blockage in the granulation machine. The machine had been switched off and the engineer switched it back on, intending to put it into reverse to try and free the blockage. The IP put his hand in the machine when it was turned on by an engineer. | HSE Prosecution 4203041 25/5/10 |
| J S Loft Conversions Ltd Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined a total of £2,000 under GSIUR 1998. The defendant company organised a loft conversion during which modifications by a sub-contractor to the flue to a gas appliance rendered it immediately dangerous. | HSE Prosecution 4202586 26/5/10 |
| Mr Paul Joynes Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined a total of £750 under GSIUR 1998. PR follows investigation of report that the flue to a gas appliance had been modified during a loft conversion and was immediately dangerous. | HSE Prosecution 4202602 26/5/10 |
| Norwegian Log Homes Ltd Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £4,500 under CAWR 2002. Uncontrolled demolition of asbestos materials at former hotel site. No asbestos survey undertaken despite prior warnings to do so from advisors. No precautions taken to prevent employee exposure or spread of asbestos around the site. | HSE Prosecution 4212633 26/5/10 |
| Chart Design Ltd Week ending 06/08/10 |
Fined £4,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. | HSE Prosecution 4200965 27/5/10 |
| Quarry company fined after digger death. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Leiths Scotland Limited fined £96,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Employee Arthur Jamieson, 53, was working beneath a mechanical digger when the vehicle rolled backwards, crushing him. He was fixing a transmission leak on the five-and-a-half-tonne digger. The vehicle was raised on a ramp, but its rear wheels were inadequately secured, Mr Jamieson was crushed when the vehicle rolled off the ramp, and was suffocated as a result of a wheel compressing his chest. HSE investigation concluded that the company failed to provide adequate information, instruction, training and supervision to Mr Jamieson to prevent any risk to his health while working for them. Mr Jamieson had not previously carried out the task and was expected to establish his own method of raising and supporting the vehicle above the ground. He was left to organise suitable blocks to support the digger without direct supervision or suitable instructions. | HSE (National) Press Release SCO/170/10 10/8/10 |
| IoD-code study denounced as "flawed". Week ending 13/08/10 |
UCATT has rejected a new report into the effectiveness of the voluntary HSE/IoD code on directors' duties, describing the evaluation approach as flawed. | SHP August 2010:7 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/leadership/steering-group-report.pdf |
| BP disaster raises potential of tighter offshore safety laws. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Oil and gas companies operating offshore in Europe could be forced to abide by new and tougher safety laws if moves underway at the European Commission bear fruit. The possibility of changes to the current regulatory system for offshore operations has been raised by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. | SHP August 2010:7 |
| HSE criticised as architect of workplace safety deregulation. Week ending 13/08/10 |
A report on the decline of workplace regulation over the past 13 years has slammed the HSE as the author of its own misfortune, and concluded that "these are, indeed, dangerous times for safety". Written by Prof Steve Tombs and Dr David Whyte, the report suggests that policy changes and the drive towards better regulation by New Labour have seriously affected the ability of the HSE to enforce health and safety law. | SHP August 2010:8 "Regulatory surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law", Inst of Employment Rights, www.ier.org.uk |
| The alarm bells are ringing. Week ending 13/08/10 |
With the courts determined to issue fines that hurt in cases of fire-safety breaches, all businesses should be paying close attention to how they comply with safety legislation in this area. (Kevin Bridges) | SHP August 2010:19 |
| Horses for courses. Week ending 13/08/10 |
A reminder to practitioners that to create a safety leadership programme for managers they must first understand the leadership styles of those in charge in their organisation and then demonstrate to them how these can be exploited, in tandem with their own personal approaches, to develop a sound safety culture. (Richard Byrne) | SHP August 2010:34-36 |
| And the band played on. Week ending 13/08/10 |
With about 22,000 staff plus 12,000 freelancers on location all around the world, the BBC needs robust safety management procedures to deal with the myriad risks and hazards its employees face. A major challenge is managing the performance of live classical music safely. The work underway at the corporation to ensure everybody knows the score. (Ruth Hansford) | SHP August 2010:39-40 |
| In search of one. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Individuals are increasingly being singled out for criminal investigations following accidents at work. A look at the impact such investigations can have on H&S professionals and organisations. (John Gollaglee) | SHP August 2010:42-44 |
| A whole lotta learning going on. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Although the basic principles of H&S and what constitutes good training remain unchanged, the options for delivery have multiplied rapidly in recent years. An overview of the increasing wealth of technological tools available. (Gary Fallaize) | SHP August 2010:46-48 |
| A dose of surgical spirit. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Challenged by successive governments to act as an exemplar on H&S, the NHS is making gradual progress towards this goal. How the varied training needs of such a large and diverse workforce are met. (Julian Topping) | SHP August 2010:50-52 |
| Money too tight to mention? Week ending 13/08/10 |
With the sharpest cuts to hit Britain's public spending since the Second World War and the Office for Budget Responsibility predicting 610,000 public-sector job losses over the next six years, how will the new age of austerity affect H&S professionals? (Gemma Dickinson) | SHP August 2010:55-56 |
| Wembley builder exposed customers to carbon monoxide. Week ending 13/08/10 |
Rushi Construction (UK) Limited fined a total of £15,000 and costs of £1,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3 and GSIUR 1998. Director, Vikas Patel fined £3,000 and costs of £731 under HASAWA 1974 s3 and GSIUR 1998. Two customers were left at risk of death or serious illness from exposure to carbon monoxide fumes. Part of an extension to a home was built around the flue outlet of a gas boiler, but the HSE investigation revealed that no Gas Safe registered engineer had been involved in the gas fitting work. Mr Patel had tried to use a sewage pipe and a washing machine vent hose, to extend the flue outlet across the new room and out a window, without success. This meant that harmful carbon monoxide gases were being released in the house, exposing the homeowners to potentially deadly fumes. Mr Patel was asked to leave the job by the customers and after complaints to National Grid, the supply of gas to the property was disconnected. | HSE (National) Press Release COISE/1007 10/8/10 |
| Somerset farmers get lifesaving advice on farm dangers. Week ending 13/08/10 |
In a free health and safety awareness day, around 350 Somerset farmers received potentially lifesaving advice on dealing with the dangers of working in agriculture. Demonstrations included trainers enacting various scenarios, and focussed on six farming-related activities: quad bikes, machinery maintenance, roof and height work, manual handling, livestock handling, and telehandlers. | HSE (National) Press Release 829/SWW/10 13/8/10 |
| Aston Villa Football Club Plc Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £1,350 under WHR 2005. A fall through fragile roof by contractor employed by Aston Villa to drain fuel tanks during demolition by another contractor DCM Demolition. Contractor employed by Mechanical Cleansing Services Ltd. | HSE Prosecution 4087301 1/6/10 |
| Mechanical Cleansing Services Limited Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £1,000 under MHSWR 1999. Company employed by Aston Villa to drain fuel tanks during demolition by another contractor DCM Demolition. Accident involving a fall through a fragile roof. IP was on top of the roof cleaning out 3 tanks using a vacuum pipe. He finished cleaning out the tanks and removed the pipe, which was lowered to his colleague. As he was heading for the stairs part of the skylight gave way and he fell through, landing on the floor inside. | HSE Prosecution 4163389 1/6/10 |
| Damon Roe Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £1,000 under MHSWR 1999. Managing Director of company employed by Aston Villa to drain fuel tanks during demolition by another contractor DCM Demolition. Accident involving fall through fragile roof. IP employed by Mechanical Cleansing Services Ltd. | HSE Prosecution 4163426 1/6/10 |
| Mr B Shtylaa Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined a total of £2,500 under ELCIR 1998. Non-production of ELCI certificate following Notice To Produce served. | HSE Prosecution 4195745 1/6/10 |
| Lincoln City Council Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined a total of £10,000 under MHSWR 1999 and HASAWA 1974 s3. Unlicensed asbestos removal. During work to convert bathroom to a wet room Asbestos Insulation Board (AIB) panels were found in boxing around waste pipes. Council brought in a contractor County Waste Ltd to check on how AIB was fixed to the studding. The operative sent to site misunderstood the instruction and used a crowbar to remove the AIB. Following the incident Council employees were exposed to asbestos without taking necessary precautions to ensure their own safety, the tenant and her son were left within the contaminated flat for 3 days before remedial action was taken. | HSE Prosecution 4187473 2/6/10 |
| County Waste Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined a total of £9,250 under CAR 2006. County Waste (Lincs) Ltd were contracted by City of Lincoln Council to examine Asbestos Insulation Board (AIB) panels found in a bathroom undergoing refurbishment by the Council in Lincoln. The operative sent to site misunderstood the instruction and used a crowbar to remove the AIB. As an employer the company had not provided the worker with adequate training, information and instruction on the hazards of asbestos, they had not taken measures to reduce the spread of asbestos from the property once it had happened and they did not transport the waste back from the site safely in sealed bags. | HSE Prosecution 4187482 2/6/10 |
| Sohail Hussain Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £1,000 under WHR 2005. IP fell from unsafe scaffold while assisting duty holder in carrying out repair work to a wind damaged sign. IP and duty holder were working at height during strong wind conditions, when the scaffold fell away beneath them causing them both to fall. | HSE Prosecution 4202020 2/6/10 |
| Arcadia Food Industries Ltd Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £4,000 under PUWER 1998. The company failed to prevent access to dangerous part of KEK Gardner spice mixing machine. | HSE Prosecution 4195375 3/6/10 |
| Darchem Engineering Ltd Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined a total of £3,000 under CAR 2006. The company failed to manage the risk of asbestos adequate information, instruction and training to employees who were, or were liable to be exposed to asbestos. | HSE Prosecution 4199489 3/6/10 |
| Alpha Group Security Limited Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £7,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. During the course of a security operation which involved using a generator as a power source for welfare facilities for an employee, the company had no safe system of work in place. They did not provide appropriate information, instruction, training and supervision when undertaking the operation, and as a consequence the employee was exposed to fatal levels of carbon monoxide produced when the said petrol generator was operated inside an enclosed space. | HSE Prosecution 4120468 4/6/10 |
| American Airlines Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined a total of £70,000 under PUWER 1998. Aircraft turnaround crew member undertaking wing walking duties was struck by a pushback tug as he walked from the stand to the apron. Risk assessment failed to identify hazard of moving around ground support equipment and the tug was not fitted with reversing lights or audible warning alarms. Also procedural failings in segregating vehicles and pedestrians. | HSE Prosecution 4180024 4/6/10 |
| A W Jenkinson (Forest Products) Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £20,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Following an accident to an employee whose foot was completely severed by a log shavings machine. The employee, who was working alone, was using a chainsaw to deal with a stuck log in the log box at the end of a conveyor. Allan Jenkinson had failed to ensure that safe systems of work associated with the shavings machine were in place. | HSE Prosecution 4188842 4/6/10 |
| Flowserve Flow Control UK Ltd Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £150,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Employee was struck by a valve which formed a missile and was ejected under pressure. Hydrostatic test conditions were being used during the testing procedure at factory. The employee was fatally injured by blunt force trauma to the chest when the ejected missile hit him. | HSE Prosecution 4189098 4/6/10 |
| Mr Vivian Carpenter Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £10,000 under WHR 2005. Employee injured when carrying out work to fit a floating floor to a new build extension. He fell approx. 2.6m through the unguarded stair void in the centre of the floor void to the concrete ground floor. | HSE Prosecution 4201511 4/6/10 |
| J Brown Services Ltd Week ending 13/08/10 |
Fined £20,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Mr Bates, lift engineer, suffered fatal crush injuries whilst working on lift car roof. Trapped between car and lintel of landing doorway. On day of accident Mr Bates was working on his own. J Brown Services Ltd had been subcontracted to complete the installation of the lift and to test it. The main contractor was Swallow Lifts Installations Ltd. Swallow were not prosecuted as it was considered they had done enough to discharge their duties, by appointing an experienced specialist contractor to complete the works. | HSE Prosecution 4203527 4/6/10 |
| Five exposed to asbestos at Manchester's Arndale Centre. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd fined a total of £4,000 and costs of £3,215 under CAR 2006 and HASAWA 1974 s3. Two workers spent 5 days ripping out old shop fittings before they discovered that asbestos had been used in some of the ceiling panels. Another three management staff at the Arndale Centre were also potentially exposed to the fibres during routine checks on the work. Eastern Regional Shopfitters Ltd knew asbestos was present in the shop but it didn't inform workers and it didn't ensure it was dealt with safely. | HSE (National) Press Release HSE/NW/45ERS 19/8/10 |
| Online notices. Week ending 20/08/10 |
The safety regulator for GB's railways (the Office of Rail Regulation) is asking for views on changes to its current policy for publishing enforcement notices on their website. At the moment, notices are not published online until the dutyholder concerned has had the opportunity to challenge an issue raised. | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:4 |
| Hazardous waste. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Sinoway UK Ltd fined £2,000 after pleading guilty to illegally exporting hazardous electrical waste and electronic equipment to Hong Kong. Cumbria Recycling Ltd, who loaded the waste into the container concerned, received a formal caution from the Environment Agency and also paid for the hazardous waste to be processed at a suitable facility in the UK. | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:4 |
| Vehicle inspectors to get more stop powers. Week ending 20/08/10 |
VOSA will be given more flexibility to stop commercial vehicles suspected of being overloaded or breaking driving hours rules under proposals from the Dept for Transport. | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:4 Internet: www.dft.gov.uk |
| Retailer's fire safety appeal dismissed. Week ending 20/08/10 |
High Street retailer New Look has lost its appeal against a £400,000 fine it received for serious breaches of fire safety legislation. | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:5 |
| Body matters. Week ending 20/08/10 |
It was the Elizabethan poet and priest, John Donne, who coined the phrase "no man is an island" but when it comes to health matters at work people can be strangely reluctant to share their ails and woes with their fellow workers, even when those conversations may help to alleviate the cause of said woes and ailments. Step forward body mapping. (Neil Jones) | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:13-16 |
| Changing times. Week ending 20/08/10 |
It has now been a year since the 48-hour working week was introduced for doctors in training in the UK. But just how effective has it been in protecting the health of junior doctors and indeed patients? (Nick Cook) | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:21-25 |
| Head protection. Week ending 20/08/10 |
The answers to some frequently asked questions about buying and wearing head protection. (Benedict Ward) | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:29-31 |
| Keeping an open mind. Week ending 20/08/10 |
In June the Rt Hon Lord Young of Graffham was asked by the new coalition government to carry out a review into health and safety law and practice. An open letter to Lord Young. (Roger Bibbings) | RoSPA Occup Safety & Health Journal August 2010:38-39 |
| Worker suffers life-changing injuries after roof fall. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Delme L James Ltd fined £8,000 and costs of £2,189.40 under WHR 2005. Mr Gwyndaf Davies, 21 at the time of the incident, was helping to re-roof a building. He fell through the roof to the concrete floor below suffering multiple facial fractures, a traumatic brain injury and multiple spine fractures. Mr Davies spent 9 months as an in-patient at hospital and has undergone significant facial reconstructive surgery and eye surgery. He has been left with the lasting effects of a traumatic brain injury, is blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other, has limited speech and cannot walk without aid. Gwyndaf continues to receive treatment and it is likely he will require care for the rest of his life. Delme L James Ltd failed to take steps to prevent workers falling from height. They also did not plan, supervise or carry out the work safely. There was only limited edge protection to prevent workers falling from the roof and no measures to prevent them falling into the building. | HSE (National) Press Release AP828W10 16/8/10 |
| Steeplejack firm fined after worker falls. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Rafferty Chimneys Engineering Ltd fined £8,000 and costs of £5,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. The company had been contracted to inspect four 20-metre tall steel chimneys. A tower scaffold was used to access the eves of the roof. HSE revealed that the tower's guard rail was too low, it did not use the right boards and no toe boards were in place. Two workers walked across a fragile asbestos sheet roof using boards just 45cm wide with no safety measures in place. They carried equipment back and forth throughout the day despite the potential for falling nearly 4 metres into the workshop below. Mr Ford fell when he was dismantling the tower scaffold at the end of the job. He had lowered a board from the upper level when he slipped and fell, suffering a serious fracture to the heel of his left foot. | HSE (National) Press Release WM209/10 16/8/10 |
| Crane firm fined after four tonne weight crashed to ground near college students. Week ending 20/08/10 |
London Tower Crane Hire & Sales Limited fined a total of £18,000 and costs of £15,837.45 under HASAWA 1974 s3, CDMR 2007 and LOLER 1998. A hook broke off a tower crane and its 4 tonne load crashed 36 metres to the ground, narrowly missing a footpath. The load, which was part of a building under construction, came down heavily beside part of the campus regularly used by students. The impact also demolished the site boundary fence and damaged a college building. | HSE (National) Press Release HSE-E-23 16/8/10 |
| Motor vehicle repair body shop workers still at risk of asthma. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Body shop workers are being encouraged to do more to protect themselves when paint spraying, as new research suggests that some are still putting themselves at risk of developing asthma. An HSE report into the use of two-pack paints containing isocyanates had identified that, while practices have improved greatly in recent years, there are still a number of areas of concern. HSE estimates that vehicle spray painters are 80 times more likely to develop occupational asthma than the average worker in the UK because they fail to take the correct precautions. Visits to 30 motor vehicle repair body shops and telephone surveys with 500 body shops found some sprayers and managers remain unaware of the link between breathing in isocyanates contained within the invisible spray mist, and developing occupational asthma. | HSE (National) Press Release 17/8/10 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr802.pdf |
| Elderly man trapped and drowned in fatal pier fall. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Argyll and Bute Council fined £20,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Duncan MacGillivray, 75, drowned when it is believed that he accidentally put his car into forward gear rather than reverse to exit a parking bay situated on a pier. The vehicle mounted the edging, and as there was no protective barrier, the car fell approximately 3 metres into the sea below and Mr MacGillivray was trapped. HSE found that while there were some barriers in place at the pier, there were none in the area where Mr MacGillivray had parked. Prior to the pier being utilised as a council-operated car park, nor at any time after it was bought into such use, was there assessment of risk to those using the park. Nor had any action been taken to provide adequate edge protection to prevent incidents like this. | HSE (National) Press Release SCO/161/10 18/8/10 |
| Onion firm fined after serious ladder injury. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Moulton Bulb Company Ltd fined £6,000 and costs of £2,188 under WHR 2005. Employee Richard Webster was covering onion boxes with plastic sheeting when he fell around 3 metres. HSE investigation found Mr Webster fell from a ladder as he was wrapping a five and a half metre stack of boxes in polythene. Mr Webster broke his shoulder which kept him off work for a month. The company has now changed its procedures to eliminate the need to work at height by applying polythene sheeting at floor level and then lifting the boxes up. | HSE (National) Press Release HSE/61/10 18/8/10 |
| Ship breakers fined for potential asbestos exposure. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Acetech Construction Limited fined £3,400 and costs of £5,000 under CAR 2006. The company put its workers and others at risk of exposure to asbestos containing materials. They purchased a former Polish fishing vessel for dismantling and selling on as scrap. The ship, built in the 1970s, had been lying unused for around 3 years. HSE found Acetech had failed to carry out an adequate survey that would have highlighted the presence of asbestos containing materials before employees began work on the boat. Over a period of 3 months, work took place to strip down the boat, resulting in several employees potentially exposed to asbestos containing materials. | HSE (National) Press Release YH/202/10 19/8/10 |
| Worker impaled at Workington factory. Week ending 20/08/10 |
ACP (Concrete) Ltd fined £15,000 and costs of £6,638 under HASAWA 1974 s2. A steel cable shot through 25 year old Jamie Graham's leg, leaving him with a hole through his shin. He was in a hip to toe full leg cast for 6 weeks and on crutches for another 4 months. Steel cables were threaded through concrete moulds and stretched to 2000 lbs tension. A grip holding one of the tensioned cables failed, releasing a 200 feet long cable. When Mr Graham went to re-thread that cable, another grip failed, releasing a second 200 feet long steel cable, the end of which passed straight through his lower right leg, leaving him impaled on the 9mm steel cable. HSE found the company did not have any system in place for inspection and maintaining the grips, and that an average of 8 grips failed each week at the premises. HSE also concluded that ACP did not have a safe system of work in place for re-threading the steel cables and fixing new grips when they failed on tensioned cables. This meant that workers could be crouching directly in line with the ends of tensioned cables whilst making repairs. | HSE (National) Press Release HSE/NW50/ACP Concrete Ltd 19/8/10 |
| Building firm fined after asbestos disturbed at primary school. Week ending 20/08/10 |
Greswolde Construction Ltd fined £1,000 and costs of £2,268 under CAR 2006. The firm was contracted to carry out building work on an extension at a primary school. Three employees were carrying out the work when they disturbed an area containing asbestos. Despite being in possession of a Type 3 Asbestos Survey detailing where it was, and the fact that children were occupying adjacent classrooms, the company had given the go ahead for the workers to begin to strip out the area. None of the workers had been informed of the presence of asbestos on the site and had not received asbestos awareness training or protection. HSE commented that for the managers of Greswolde Construction not to inform their employees of the presence of asbestos, showed a complete disregard for their safety and wellbeing. Even worse was that the work was being carried out in a primary school where young children were in the next room. | HSE (West Midlands) Press Release 20/8/10 |
| Federal Mogul Bradford Ltd Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined a total of £10,000 under PUWER 1998. IP was attempting to release a piston pin that had become jammed in a step feeder with his fingers. When the pin was freed it allowed the step feeder to move up and caught the middle finger (left hand) of IP, on the next step of the feeder resulting in his finger being crushed and badly cut. | HSE Prosecution 4188798 7/6/10 |
| Walkers Logs Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined £4,500 under WHR 2005. Employee fell approx 4m through fibre cement sheet barn roof while scraping off moss. He was standing on scaffold boards laid across the roof support bars. No provision made for work at height including no suitable means of access, edge protection, fall prevention or training. Employee had been lifted onto barn roof by another employee in a pallet on the forks of a telehandler. PN issued to prohibit the driving of lift trucks by anyone without suitable training. | HSE Prosecution 4201099 7/6/10 |
| Antony Brian Sweet Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined £200 under WHR 2005. Roofing steel framed shed. No nets or edge protection provided. | HSE Prosecution 4202546 7/6/10 |
| Christopher Ernest Cole Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined £200 under WHR 2005. Roofing steel framed shed. No nets or edge protection provided. | HSE Prosecution 4202548 9/6/10 |
| Andrew Baillie Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined £2,500 under HASAWA 1974 s37. Director, Mr Baillie, lifted a steel plate using unsecured extension on fork of FLT. The extension and plate slipped off the fork, striking leg of trainee who was assisting with lifting operation. | HSE Prosecution 4196411 9/6/10 |
| Mr Gennaro Saiano Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined a total of £3,000 under HASAWA 1974 s21 and EWR 1989. Routine unannounced inspection of DG Bakeries on October 2008 and January 2009 identified several health and safety failings, including failure to maintain electrical systems and failure to assess the risks from flour dust. | HSE Prosecution 4185096 10/6/10 |
| Mr Dejan Durkin Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined a total of £2,500 under HASAWA 1974 s21 and EWR 1989. Routine unannounced inspection of DG Bakeries on October 2008 and January 2009 identified several health and safety failings, including failure to maintain electrical systems and failure to assess the risks from flour dust. An IN was issued requiring the company to carry out a COSHH Risk Assessment. IN not complied with. | HSE Prosecution 4185118 10/6/10 |
| Mr Chris P Bradshaw Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined a total of £38,000 under GSIUR 1998 and HASAWA 1974 s22. Complaint. Gas fitter working outside competency. ACS held for NG but working on LPG boiler and hob in domestic home. HSL expert opinion that faults gave rise to risk of personal injury. PN served but further investigation into work which occurred when he was suspended by CORGI and when he was removed from register and PN still in place. | HSE Prosecution 4185118 11/6/10 |
| Romtech Limited Week ending 20/08/10 |
Fined £12,000 under PUWER 1998. Employee became entangled in machine injuring right arm. | HSE Prosecution 4167580 11/6/10 |
| Worker left with long-term injuries after 21-metre fall. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited fined £50,000 and costs of £13,756 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Expanded Structures Limited fined £75,000 and costs of £14,154 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Mr Stephen McColgan, 37, was working on the construction of the adult block of a hospital when part of an unsupported working platform broke away when he stood on it, causing him to fall 21 metres to the ground. He suffered serious injuries to his head and body in the fall and his injuries continue to be life-changing. HSE investigation revealed that sections of the falsework, acting as a temporary structure supporting the working platform, were removed before work on the concrete slab was complete. | HSE (National) Press Release NE/218/10 24/8/10 |
| Buncefield judgment reveals depth of safety failures. Week ending 27/08/10 |
DIY control measures and operators' complacency contributed to biggest peacetime explosion. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:4-5 |
| Falling boards deaths trigger HSE alert. Week ending 27/08/10 |
The HSE has issued a safety alert to warn employers of the dangers of storing boards leaning in stacks against walls after a worker died when he lost control of a stack while trying to extract a board. Over the last seven years, there have been at least three fatalities caused by falling boards, including a 4-year old child. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:8 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/stackedboards.htm |
| HSE Annual Report. Week ending 27/08/10 |
The HSE has made good progress in delivering its business plan for 2009/10, according to its latest annual report and accounts. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:9 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/0910/ar0910.pdf |
| Lack of goggles led to acid eye splash. Week ending 27/08/10 |
A chemicals manufacturer has paid compensation of £10,000 to a worker after acid caused long-term damage to his right eye. Philip Heeney was trying to remove a cap from a drum of acid at an Omya UK site when the acid splashed onto his face and went into his mouth and right eye. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:12 |
| Firefighter's back payout. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Greater Manchester Fire Service has paid compensation of £80,000 to a former firefighter after he was sacked for speaking out about the health effects of new reclining chairs. The Service had replaced dormitory beds for firefighters on night shifts with recliners. Christopher Bennett complained the new chair was aggravating his back condition and requested to be able to use his own mattress. This was refused, the Service saying he either had to use the chairs or forms in the snooker room. He was dismissed for gross misconduct after he emailed other colleagues voicing his complaints and asking them if they were having back trouble because of the new chairs. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:15 |
| Legislative calendar. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Calendar of new and upcoming legislation. | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:18 |
| First among equals. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Under the primary authority scheme, businesses regulated by local authorities can have the rules set by one council. (Lucie Ponting) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:20-22 |
| Ransomes Jacobsen: the staff less travelled. Week ending 27/08/10 |
How a manufacturer redesigned its spares packing operation to cut the risk of musculoskeletal disorders. (Andrea Oates) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:24-25 |
| Control order. Week ending 27/08/10 |
A reminder that engineering controls should always come before behavioural ones. (Duncan Abbott) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:26-27 |
| SMEs: Choosing wisely. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Continuing the health and safety primer with the rules on employing competent contractors. (Paul Reeve) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:28,30 |
| Oxford Instruments: up to standard. Week ending 27/08/10 |
The route to certification for a hi-tech manufacturer. (Louis Wustemann) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:32-34 |
| Site specifics: the 18000 standards. Week ending 27/08/10 |
The best sources of advice the internet has to offer on the suite of health and safety standards and guides. (Bridget Leathley) | Health and Safety at Work September 2010:36-38 |
| Worker loses fingers in between metal rollers. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Formica Ltd fined £8,000 and costs of £4,741.60 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Mr Gary Burke, 45, was working on a machine which coats paper with resin and then cuts it into lengths to produce the back of a laminated product. He was using his right hand to check for any resin deposits on the feed belts, when his glove became caught in a belt and his hand was drawn between the two guide rollers. Mr Burke lost his finger and part of the other fingers on his right hand. Doctors were unable to save Mr Burke's little finger though he hopes that they will be able to re-construct two of his fingers to restore some function long term. While he has returned to work, he has not been able to do his job and is now on light duties. HSE investigation found there had been consistent production problems with the machine. | HSE (National) Press Release NE/216/10 20/8/10 |
| Offshore industry warned over 'not good enough' safety statistics. Week ending 27/08/10 |
The offshore oil and gas industry has been warned about its safety record as new statistics show increases in major injuries and unplanned hydrocarbon releases. Figures released by HSE show that there were 50 major injuries reported in 2009/10, up 20 on 2008/09 and higher than average of 42 over the previous five years. No workers were killed during activities regulated by HSE for the third year running. The combined fatal and major injury rate almost doubled to 192 per 100,000 workers in 2009/10 compared with 106 in 2008/09 and 156 in 2007/08. | HSE (National) Press Release 24/8/10 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics.htm |
| Research indicates no increased cancer risk at Greenock factory. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Workers at a Scottish semi-conductor plant are not at increased risk of developing occupational cancers, new research suggests. An independent investigation carried out by the HSE and Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) has concluded that earlier concerns about occupational cancer at the National Semiconductors UK (NSUK) factory in Greenock were unfounded. The study follows on from a report in 2001, published by HSE, which found that although the overall number of cancers in the workforce was not unusual there was a possibility that some could have been caused at work. Anyone affected by the findings can contact the research team free on 0800 592450. | HSE (National) Press Release 24/8/10 Internet: www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/nsuk/index.htm |
| Exeter landlord put lives at risk with faulty gas boiler. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Landlord Richard Elliott fined £4,000 and costs of £1,787, including £15 to the victim compensation fund under GSIUR 1998. Mr Elliott put lives of his tenants and others at risk by illegally fitting a gas boiler. HSE investigation revealed that when Mr Elliott was installing a new boiler at a flat he failed to safely isolate and cap the live gas pipe, and left the work partially completed. The tenant of the flat, a grandmother, was visited by her young grandchildren on a daily basis, before concerns about the safety of the new boiler was raised by a visiting officer from the Council. Pipework left in the flat was extremely dangerous and could have led to a major gas explosion if one of the children had simply twisted the valve to let the gas escape. | HSE (National) Press Release 900/SWW/10 25/8/10 |
| Man left brain damaged by falling panel saw. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Joda Freight Limited fined £5,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Employee Mr Nicholas Holmes, 49, was delivering panel saws, when a 290 kilogram panel saw fell off the vehicle, hitting him on the head. Mr Holmes was left with permanent brain damage by the incident. The company did not have a reliable system of communication in place to make sure their drivers were informed about the securing and stability of loads. Mr Holmes had not been told anything about how the panel saws were secured in the lorry. When he removed the straps securing the saws, the load became unstable, causing the incident. | HSE (National) Press Release SCO/176/10 25/8/10 |
| Illegal gas fitter fined £8,000. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Robert Fordham fined £8,000 and costs of £2,097.50 under GSIUR. He carried out gas work while not being registered and for pretending to be registered when he was not. Mr Fordham and a colleague replaced a gas boiler at a Climbing Centre, sent an invoice stating that he was registered with CORGI. When he did not arrive to carry out further work as planned, the centre contacted the register, who confirmed that he was not a qualified and registered gas engineer. Mr Fordham was also responsible for installing a new boiler at a house. Again, he gave the owner an invoice stating that he was a registered gas fitter and even left a registration card with a CORGI number on it. When the homeowner contacted CORGI, they confirmed that Mr Fordham was not registered. Mr Fordham knew he was operating illegally in carrying out this type of work as he'd previously tried to become registered and been refused. | HSE (National) Press Release COI/LDN/26-08 27/8/10 |
| Schoolboy killed after falling through farm roof. Week ending 27/08/10 |
John Irvine and Son fined £13,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3. Austin Irvine, the 13 year old stepson of the farm's junior partner, was watching the gutter in the valley between the cattle shed and feed passage roofs being cleared. He had been raised up to roof level in a bucket attached to a tractor, and he then stepped onto the roof and proceeded to walk along it. He stepped onto a rooflight and fell four and a half metres. He sustained serious injuries and subsequently died. Investigations found that there was no proper edge protection on the roof and no measures in place to prevent falls through the sheeting that made up the roof. | HSE (National) Press Release SCO/177/10 26/8/10 |
| Worker is left paralysed after being crushed by steel beam. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Strata Homes Yorkshire Ltd fined £30,000 and costs of £16,062 under LOLER 1998. Anton Burrows, 24, was working as part of a bricklaying team sub-contracted to Strata Homes when the incident occurred. Mr Burrows was helping a driver of a telescopic FLT to lift a steel beam onto two brick pillars. Although the beam initially landed as intended, as the fork lift was withdrawing, the forks caught the beam dislodging it from the pillars. Mr Burrows walked into the area as this happened, and the steel beam weighing more than 660 pounds crushed down on top of him. He suffered extensive injuries, including spinal damage, which resulted in him being left quadriplegic. | HSE (National) Press Release YH/206/10 27/8/10 |
| Company heads prosecuted over hydraulic press injury. Week ending 27/08/10 |
Dennis Brunt (former director of Lupton Fabrications Ltd), Peter Critchard (former director of Lupton Fabrications Ltd) and Stealsafe Ltd (their new company) jointly fined £2,001 and costs of £250 under PUWER 1998. A 57 year old worker had the ends of two fingers severed in an incident at Lupton Fabrications Ltd, a metal fabricating company formerly owned by Mr Brunt and Mr Critchard. Investigations found that the photoelectric detectors used to protect workers from the closing tools of the hydraulic press, were not operational at the time of the incident and had been routinely over-ridden for a number of years. | HSE (National) Press Release YH/207/10 27/8/10 |
| Rootcroft Limited Week ending 27/08/10 |
Fined a total of £5,000 under HASAWA 1974 s3. A bath was run for the IP and staff failed to check the temperature of the water. IP was hoisted/lowered into the bath, IP began to shout that the water was too hot. His feet were immediately placed in cold water, nurse on duty attended and dialled 999 for an ambulance and the IP was taken to hospital. At present IP is still in hospital and HSE are waiting information. Reiterated to staff to check temperature of water using thermometers placed in each bath. | HSE Prosecution 4191455 14/6/10 |
| East Ayrshire Council Week ending 27/08/10 |
Fined a total of £56,000 under HASAWA 1974 s2. Failed to provide information, instruction, supervision and training to employees who were expected to use a mobile elevated work platform and as a result an employee was killed when airlift overturned while it was being used by him to carry out maintenance work at height on ceiling lights. | HSE Prosecution 4185718 17/6/10 |
| Donald Galt Week ending 27/08/10 |
Fined a total of £200 under WHR 2005. Investigation following proactive visit to construction work. Work carried out on behalf of a domestic client. Alteration of scaffolding at a refurbishment project authorised and condoned by Donald Galt as proprietor of DH Galt Property. The scaffold provided or work at roof level complied with the requirements of WHR 2005. There was evidence of this scaffold having been altered with boards removed to form work platforms at lower lifts. | HSE Prosecution 4206280 17/6/10 |
| Thomas Denzil Jones Week ending 27/08/10 |
Fined £15,000 under PUWER 1998. Failed to ensure fairground ride was in safe condition with resulted in an accident, that left IP as a tetraplegic. | HSE Prosecution 4183499 18/6/10 |
| Fairground Inspection Services Limited Week ending 27/08/10 |
Guilty, Compensation Award under HASAWA 1973 s3. Prosecution has resulted due to failure to carry out annual, thorough examinations adequately. | HSE Prosecution 4183530 18/6/10 |
| Dermot Healy Week ending 27/08/10 |
Fined a total of £500 under HASAWA 1974 s3 and GSIUR 1998. | HSE Prosecution 4200990 18/6/10 |
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