tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39012251293192465942024-02-19T15:11:05.095+00:00Risk, Health and Safety Informationwww.rhssltd.co.ukRHSS Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18275564509848103087noreply@blogger.comBlogger885125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901225129319246594.post-59437328055031937522018-02-01T12:03:00.000+00:002018-02-01T12:03:28.935+00:00
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after he was photographed working at 60 feet wearing a harness that wasn’t
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Terrance Murray, 27, was
erecting scaffolding at the side of a six storey building when he was
unknowingly snapped by a retired health and safety inspector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He now faces up to six months in prison after
he admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As part of work to renovate the
windows at the Grade II-listed Sunlight House in Manchester, Murray was
constructing scaffolding at the rear of the building, and in the photo, his
apprentice can be seen working further down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Murray, who is an experienced scaffolder, can be seen standing on planks
without having first erected a rail to stop him falling over the side, as
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">During his appearance at
Manchester and Salford Magistrates’ Court, he pleaded guilty to failing to take
reasonable care for either himself or others who may have been affected by his
acts and omissions while at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had
not realised that he could be sent to prison for the offence, and the case was
adjourned for him to consider obtaining legal representation as he had not been
represented by a lawyer during the hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Health and Safety, Matt Greenly said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The potential for his actions
was the death of a young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
situation which could easily have been avoided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He has all the right equipment, but he chose, for some unknown reason,
to take his life in his own hands that day”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RHSS Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18275564509848103087noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901225129319246594.post-70169358584106484332018-01-15T17:17:00.000+00:002018-01-15T17:17:25.730+00:00
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has recently published annual statistics on health and safety in Great
Britain for 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Under the heading of Vital
Statistics 2017, the illustration below shows how much time was lost to
ill-health and injury, and sadly, that 137 lives were lost at work during the
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE also publish a booklet
which breaks down the statistics further into industry type, which may be of
interest in giving feedback to workers about the importance of observing health
and safety regulations and safe working practices, and the consequences of poor
health and safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The booklet is
available from the HSE website, and breaks the statistics down to include:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are marking the 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary of trade union health and safety
representatives receiving the legal right to improve health and safety in the
workplace under The Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations
1977.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The TUC launched a campaign on
25<sup>th</sup> October 2017 to mark this important milestone and to reflect
upon the valuable work that has been undertaken by safety representatives and
safety committees over the last 40 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Union health and safety representatives are often volunteers and there
will be a celebration on Workers Memorial Day on 28<sup>th</sup> April 2018 to
honour the successes of union safety reps in making a difference in the
workplace and the effect of the regulations in saving lives and preventing
illness and injury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) places great importance on worker involvement and consultation, which
they feel has proved to be a key factor to improving health and safety in the
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a series of case studies over the next six months which have been produced by
safety representatives, and there is also a leaflet on the TUC website which
can be downloaded that explains the role of the safety representative and how
unions made a difference in the workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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“not fit for purpose” according to the interim report by the independent review
of building regulations and fire safety chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt.</span></b></div>
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defined as those “where multiple people live or stay and for which exceptional
events could lead to the risk of large-scale fatalities” – are subject to
regulations which are too complex and poorly implemented, says the report. </span></span></div>
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unambiguous” regulations and guidance on fire safety. It says as an interim
measure the government should consider “presentational changes” to improve the
clarity of Approved Document B, which accompanies the Building Regulations. <span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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before the report’s launch Dame Hackitt said of the Building Regulations: “The
regulations themselves are pretty simple but what sits below them is a whole
series of guidance documents which stacked on top of one another would be two
feet high.</span></span></span></span></div>
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make that much simpler and to guide people to the right answer rather than
presenting them with all that information.” </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The independent review was commissioned
by the government after the Grenfell Tower fire in June. Its call for evidence
drew responses from 250 parties, including IOSH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Its interim report also calls for a
change in fire safety culture.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> “At the heart of this required
change is a shift of ownership,” says Dame Hackitt. “Despite being advised at
the outset that the regulatory system for building was outcomes and
performance-based, I have encountered masses of prescription which is complex
and in some cases inconsistent. The prescription is largely owned by
government, with industry – those who should be the experts in best practice –
waiting to be told what to do and some looking for ways to work around it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dame Hackitt says that as chair of
the Health and Safety Executive between 2007 and 2016 she saw a shift in
construction industry safety led by the regulator and the major employers. “A
cultural and behavioural change of similar magnitude” is now required among all
those responsible for fire safety, she says, including developers, architects
and building owners.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The report calls for the “regular”
fire risk assessments required for buildings covered by the Regulatory Reform
(Fire Safety) Order 2005 to be carried out at least annually or whenever a
building is altered. The risk assessments should be shared with residents and
the fire service, it recommends.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The mandatory consultation with fire
and rescue services on plans for buildings that are covered by the Fire Safety
Order “does not work as intended” says the report. Fire service advice is not
always followed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Consultation by building control
bodies and by those commissioning or designing buildings should take place
early in the process and fire and rescue service advice should be fully taken
into account,” it recommends.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Responsible persons under the Fire
Safety Order are frequently not identified when the building is due to be
handed over following construction and therefore people are not aware of their
responsibilities,” it notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Professional bodies representing
fire engineers and risk assessors, building control officers and fire system
installers must come up with a system to guarantee the competence of people
working on complex buildings, the report recommends.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Responding to the report, IOSH
strategic development director Shelley Frost said: “In the consultation, we
called for the consideration of mandatory accreditation of fire risk assessors
for all high-rises, to ensure standards are as high as they can be.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Part of this is having the right
people making the right decisions – well-trained, competent personnel. With
fire safety being a complex issue, systems should be clear, simple to
understand and proportionate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Without adequate training, will
someone know the importance of checking areas out of plain sight, such as above
ceilings or in ducts? Will someone know to check if fire doors have been
removed? Will someone know to check if renovation work has unintentionally
compromised compartmentalisation? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">To end the poor documentation of
buildings whose design changes during planning or construction there must be “a
golden thread for all complex and high-risk building projects so that the
original design intent is preserved and recorded, and any changes go through a
formal review process involving people who are competent and who understand the
key features of the design”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Building control bodies must ensure
fire safety information for a building is provided by builders or developers to
the responsible person for the building in occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The report highlights the fact that
there is no requirement in the Building Regulations for buildings to be brought
up to the latest fire safety standards, as long as during any refurbishment
does not weaken the existing provisions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Responding to criticisms that some
forms of building cladding had not previously been subject to fire testing in
situ, the report says the government should “significantly restrict” the use of
desktop studies to approve changes to cladding and other systems “to ensure
that they are only used where appropriate and with sufficient, relevant test
evidence”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Phase two of the review will focus
on specifying a simpler risk-based regulatory system. The report says this
revision must not stifle innovation in building design, add disproportionately
to costs and build times or burden low-risk, small-scale projects.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dame Hackitt says she will convene a
summit of “key stakeholders” to discuss the new regime early in 2018. Her final
report is due in the spring.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">E-Learning
– Offering flexibility in training<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Have
you discovered our E-Learning?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2dI0-PaDdHPehkDQ7AmnRbpoZA3vwBaqKTVsRN5RCGcZV9-aE2H9V5XjqqsZHACXjNWtFATF61uqzBSaQ5GZ4kMjepBXEFQdeyHzxw_PakUvRj91Af7X0U2CbFceDMGqJq70D_85_S0/s1600/computer+training.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2dI0-PaDdHPehkDQ7AmnRbpoZA3vwBaqKTVsRN5RCGcZV9-aE2H9V5XjqqsZHACXjNWtFATF61uqzBSaQ5GZ4kMjepBXEFQdeyHzxw_PakUvRj91Af7X0U2CbFceDMGqJq70D_85_S0/s1600/computer+training.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv2dI0-PaDdHPehkDQ7AmnRbpoZA3vwBaqKTVsRN5RCGcZV9-aE2H9V5XjqqsZHACXjNWtFATF61uqzBSaQ5GZ4kMjepBXEFQdeyHzxw_PakUvRj91Af7X0U2CbFceDMGqJq70D_85_S0/s200/computer+training.jpg" width="200" /></a></b><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">E-Learning offers the benefits of providing
the chance for your candidates to gain essential Health and Safety knowledge
and expertise, without needing to release them to classroom-type training that
might involve the time and expense of travel and being out of the
business. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">We offer a variety of health and
safety related training courses and assessments, providing an accessible and
flexible way of training staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>E-Learning
is web-based and can be accessed at work or at home, at any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our courses are visual and interactive and
demonstrate examples of workplace safety issues and how to deal with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courses can be completed a module at a time
if necessary – just pick up where you left off when you log back in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Our most popular E-Learning courses include
Manual Handling, Working at Height, Slips, Trips and Falls and Asbestos
Awareness. Other courses available include Fire Safety Essentials,
Display Screen Equipment, PPE and Fire Warden training, all at very competitive
rates. To register candidates, we only need their full name and the email
address they wish to use to access their login details. Upon successful
completion of a course, candidates can print a certificate of their
achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The full range of courses and
assessments we offer are shown below:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Asbestos
Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Code of
Conduct<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Contractors
Safety Procedures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">CPR Essentials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Cyber Security<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Drivewize
Training<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ebola Virus
and Disease<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Electrical Safety<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ergowize – DSE
Training<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Evacuation
Procedures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Fire Safety
Essentials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Fire Wardens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Food Safety
Essentials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hazardous
Substances (COSHH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Health and
Safety Induction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Homeworking
Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Legionella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Lone Working
Essentials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Managing
Health and Safety<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Manual
Handling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Modern Slavery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Money
Laundering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Noise at Work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Pandemic
Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Pandemic
Procedures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Prevent Duty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Risk
Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Safeguarding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Security and
Terror Alerts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Slips, Trips
and Falls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Social Media
Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Whistleblowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Working at
Height<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">HR
Courses<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Alcohol and
Drug Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Anti-Bribery
and Corruption<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bullying and
Harassment Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Data
Protection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Disciplinary
Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Equality and
Diversity Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Grievance
Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Internet User
Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">New and Expectant
Mothers Policy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Resource
Efficiency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Stress
Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">DriveWize
Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ergowize
Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Expectant
Mother’s Risk Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Homeworker
Safety Risk Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.25pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Lone Worker
Risk Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 150.3pt;" valign="top" width="200">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">New Mother’s
Risk Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">FREE
TRIAL – </span></b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">find out more about E-Learning and a
free trial of any of our courses by contacting us on 0333 577 0248 or
admin@rhssltd.co.uk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Health and Safety Myths
Buster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can you stock plasters in a
first aid box?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An employee had cut her finger in the workplace and a colleague
tried to obtain a plaster from the first aid kit but there were none. The
employee asked a manager if they could restock them but she replied that due to
health and safety reasons i.e. allergies, plasters were no longer supplied for
the first aid kit. The employee has since heard of other cases in workplaces
that will not<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>stock plasters in
their first aid kits for similar reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Mythbuster Panel decision<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is no health and safety regulation which bans the provision
of plasters, in fact HSE’s own guidance recommends that a first aid box should
stock plasters. If the concern is about the small risk of allergic reaction to
some types of plaster then this can be easily managed by stocking the
hypoallergenic variety or simply asking the person being treated if they are
allergic to plasters before they are applied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;">Do you know your responsibilites under Construction and Design Management
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Workplace deaths are down – but it’s “no cause for celebration”<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE’s latest provisional
workplace fatality figures show that 137 people died at work in 2016/17, the
second lowest year on record. But many key figures across health and safety are
speaking out about the “hidden figures” of between 20,000 and 50,000 deaths
each year due to past poor working conditions of heart and lung diseases and
work cancers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work related suicides are now
also thought to be more than 100 per year, and over 2,500 people each year are
dying from mesothelioma, with the UK having the highest incidence of disease in
the world<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The headline figures</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Overall fatalities:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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– 147 workers died<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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– 142 workers died<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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– 136 workers died<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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– 150 workers died<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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– 171 workers died<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fatalities by sector:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This year the construction and
agriculture sectors had the highest number of deaths:</span></div>
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construction<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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manufacturing<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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logistics<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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waste industry<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Other<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fatalities by accident types:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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by moving vehicle 31<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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from a height 25<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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by moving object 20<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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by something collapsing/overturning 10<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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with moving machinery 8<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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with electricity 8<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The GMB union, which has
members across every sector of the British economy, said the official workplace
death figures hide tens of thousands of related deaths, saying that the figure
of 137 is “just the tip of the iceberg” and that every death demands justice
and enforcement.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A
spokesperson for IOSH said: “Work-related fatalities are entirely preventable
so we must strive to reduce this number further”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A
fuller assessment of work-related ill-health and injuries, drawing on the HSE’s
full range of data sources, will be provided as part of the annual Health and
Safety Statistics released on 1 November 2017.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Source:
<a href="http://www.shponline.co.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.shponline.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Supermarket deli refused to leave plastic wrapping on liver
sausage stating that it was a ‘choking hazard’<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Supermarket deli refused to
leave plastic wrapping on liver sausage stating that it was a ‘choking hazard’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE Myth Busters Challenge
Panel decided that there is no health and safety reason for refusing to leave
the original plastic wrapping on fresh liver sausage. The decision to remove
the plastic wrapping from the fresh food at point of sale makes no sense,
especially as the product is likely to be wrapped in some other form of plastic
bag before being handed to the customer. Claiming removal of the product’s
original wrapping was necessary for health and safety reasons is indeed a myth!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Health and Safety<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Monitoring and reporting are vital
parts of a health and safety culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Effective management systems provide both specific (eg incident-led) and
routine reports on the performance of a Company’s Health and Safety Policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">If your Company holds a formal review
of performance in Health and Safety, much of the day-to-day health and safety
information can be reported at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, a strong system of monitoring can ensure that a successful
formal review of Policy can take place, and that incidents and events can be
picked up in the period between formal reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A strong system of monitoring and
reporting with have two main parts:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Core
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To ensure that:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Appropriate attention is given to
reporting both preventative information, such as progress of training and
maintenance programmes, and incident data such as accident and sickness absence
rates;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Periodic audits of the effectiveness
of management structures and risk controls for health and safety are carried
out;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the introduction of new procedures, work processes or products, or any major
health and safety failure, is reported as soon as possible;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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implement new and changed legal requirements and to consider any other external
developments and events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Effective monitoring of sickness
absence and workplace health can alert management to any underlying problems
that could seriously damage performance or result in accidents and long-term
illness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The collection of workplace health
and safety data can allow management to benchmark the Company’s performance
against others in the same business sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Appraisals of senior managers can
include an assessment of their contribution to health and safety performance;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Management can receive regular
reports on the health and safety performance and actions of contractors;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can result in greater support for health and safety for the Company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There can be other benefits to carry
out regular monitoring and reviews, for example a Company may see a reduction
in absence from work as a result of sickness or injury, which in turn, may lead
to a reduction in insurance premiums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Any monitoring, reporting, reviews or
audits should be seen as a positive management tool which enables a Company to
progress and improve their working practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of worker<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A North East based contractor Pyeroy Ltd has been fined due to
failings in their work at height rescue planning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Plymouth Magistrates Court heard that on 21 October 2013 Mr
Keith Stevens, aged 57, was helping to dismantle temporary roofing at Devonport
Naval Base using a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP). His colleagues found
him trapped between a roof beam and the controls of the MEWP. There was a delay
in Mr Stevens being lowered to ground. Mr Stevens died of a pre-existing
heart condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found
that Pyeroy had not properly planned the work on a MEWP in restricted overhead
areas. It was also found that other Pyeroy employees had not received suitable
training in the emergency lowering procedure of the elevated platforms and no
practice drills had been carried out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pyeroy Ltd of St Omers Road, Western Riverside Route, Gateshead,
has pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4 (1) of the Work at Height
Regulations 2005. The company has been fined £130,000 and ordered to pay costs
of £14,388.36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“If Pyeroy had trained other employees to use the mobile
elevated work platform in emergency situations, Mr Stevens would have been lowered
to the ground more swiftly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This case highlights the need for duty holders to properly plan
all work at height beforehand, including emergency planning and rescue
situations.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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uncontrolled fire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vertellus Specialties UK Limited has today been fined after an
uncontrolled fire at the company’s Seal Sands premises in Middlesbrough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Teesside Crown Court heard the large fire occurred at the
premises in the early hours of 14 May 2014. The fire involved large quantities
of dangerous substances including Vitride, which led to this fire being
declared a major incident. The Vitride was in drums and each one burst open
causing a large fireball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">No one was injured as a result of this fire, but police declared
a major emergency and the road was closed for several hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE),
Environment Agency (EA) and Cleveland Fire Brigade (CFB) found that Vertellus
failed to adequately maintain its equipment; and failed to ensure the equipment
was suitable to control temperature or prevent ignition to an uncontrolled
release.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vertellus Specialties UK Limited of St Anns Wharf, Newcastle
upon Tyne, has pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4 of the Control of Major
Accident Hazards Regulations 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The company has been fined £135,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£37,653.12.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Luckily no one was injured as a result of this uncontrolled
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Duty holders, particularly those
who could be subject to a major incident, need to carry out robust planning to
prevent and control major accidents. All engineering disciplines should be
used, using outside assistance if needed. Here, there was a failure to
recognise how a leak could develop into a larger problem.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is a Fire Risk Assessment?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Fire Risk Assessment is a
systematic and structured assessment of the fire risk in the building in
question. This is completed for the purpose of expressing the current
level of fire risk, determining the adequacy of existing fire precautions and
determining the need for, and nature of, any additional fire precautions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why should I have a Fire Risk Assessment?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The reasons for having a Fire
Risk Assessment fall into three main categories as described below:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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– To meet your legal obligation under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety)
Order 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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– To reduce the risk of a fire so far as is reasonably practicable
therefore providing protection to all concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Protection – To ensure that you reduce the likelihood of a fire occurring
and the impact this would have on your business/premises should this
occur.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At RHSS Ltd we complete all our
Fire Risk Assessments following a format as set out in a Publicly
Available Specification (PAS79). As part of our service we offer
full support for 90 days following the assessment which can include
liaison with fire officers, insurers etc, and we guarantee the highest level of
advice.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To find out more about our Fire Risk Assessment Service and how
we can help your business, contact us on 0333 577 0248 or 0208 667 2028, or
email us at admin@rhssltd.co.uk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Principal contractor fined for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A London based construction
company has been fined for safety failings after complaints from the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Basildon Magistrates’ Court
heard how Malik Contractors and Engineers Ltd were working at a site St John’s
Way in Corringham, Essex in 2016 when concerned members of the public contacted
the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malik Contractors and Engineers
Ltd are the principal contractors for the development of a public house and 24
flats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Acting on the public concerns,
HSE carried out three inspections of the site. On each visit the inspectors and
visiting officers found numerous breaches of health and safety legislation,
including dangerous electrical systems, unsafe work at height across the site,
and no fire detection alarm. There was no fire-fighting equipment, despite
workers sleeping on site.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a result HSE issued four
Prohibition Notices (PNs) and three Improvement Notices (INs) on the firm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malik Contractors and Engineers
Ltd of Neasden Goods Depot, Neasden, London, was fined a total of £52,000, and
ordered to pay £4,415 in costs after pleading guilty to an offence under
Regulation 13(1) of The Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector David King said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case highlights the
importance of complying with enforcement action. Duty holders have the
responsibility to provide their workers with appropriate training and equipment
so they can work safely. In this case Malik Contractors failed to do so.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is essential that those
responsible for construction work understand they are also responsible for the
health and safety of those on and around the construction site, and ensure
suitable and sufficient arrangements are in place to plan.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Have you reviewed or considered
your ability to provide first aid at your workplace?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have sufficient provision of first
aiders for your organisation’s level of risk and number of employees?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">RHSS can help you assess your first
aid needs to make sure that you satisfy the requirements of the Health and
Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
can help you decide what you need to put into place to ensure that should an
accident happen and someone is hurt at your workplace, help can be made
available quickly and efficiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Once you have decided on the
type of first aid you need, RHSS can offer training of first aiders either at
your workplace, or a venue of your choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We offer Emergency First Aid at Work training, which is a one day course
for smaller, low-risk organisations, or for larger organisations who want to
make sure they have nominated first aid cover for holidays and absences.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is also a three day First
Aid at Work course which provides comprehensive training to give the first
aider the skills required to give effective life support, diagnose and treat
injuries or illness and maintain care and comfort for the casualty, with
emphasis on dealing with life threatening situations to help ensure the
casualty’s life is preserved until professional help arrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Successful candidates will achieve
qualification for a period of three years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you would like more information about our training courses,
have a look at our website </span><a href="http://www.rhssltd.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.rhssltd.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,
contact us on 0333 577 0248 or 0208 667 2028, or email us at
admin@rhssltd.co.uk.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company fined after worker hurt while unloading heavy glazed
doors<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Munster Joinery (UK) Ltd has
been fined after one of its workers was struck by a triple-glazed double door
during unloading at a construction site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oxford Crown Court heard that
in October 2013 the worker, Michael Jephcott, was part of a Munster team at a
large house building site in Cholsey Meadow, Fairmile, Oxfordshire to deliver
and install doors and windows. During unloading he was struck on the head by a
set of double doors, knocking him unconscious and leaving him with whiplash and
headaches. He required physiotherapy for some time afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found there had been several previous injuries to
Munster site workers, during unloading and handling of heavy glazing units. The
company had previously been warned by both HSE and their own safety consultant that
they needed to implement a safe system of work for transporting, unloading and
handling their products. However, the company consistently failed to properly
investigate these incidents, didn’t ensure loads were secured safely, hadn’t
clearly identified or marked the different weights of the glazing units and
hadn’t monitored the availability of necessary equipment at delivery sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Munster Joinery (UK) Ltd of
Stratford Road, Wellesbourne, Warwick pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1)
of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, was fined £300,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £18,424.98.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His Honour Judge Peter Ross
commented that “the culture of the business was at the root of the problem” and
that “systemic management failings” were the cause of the breaches of the law
and resulting injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Dominic Goacher said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Our investigation found that
workers at Munster were unable to follow a safe system of work. There is no
excuse for this level of negligence when workers are required to handle heavy
products regularly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This case and the penalty
awarded sends out a very strong message. The aim should be to move heavy
objects mechanically wherever possible and to reduce the risk of injuries by
other means where some manual handling is still required. Too many workers
experience long term suffering because of unsafe manual handling.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Today is World Day for Safety and
Health at Work </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">– 28<sup>th</sup> April 2017</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The International Labour
Organisation (ILO) marks its World Day for Safety and Health at Work on or
around 28th April each year. World Day is an international campaign to promote
safe, healthy and decent work around the globe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The UK is a founding member of
the ILO, and a number of events will be taking place around the world to
recognise World Day for Safety and Health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) gives its full support to the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The ILO have reported that
their global estimates revealed that every day 6,300 people die due to
workplace accidents or work-related illnesses that can be prevented. In
particular, they have highlighted an issue in the Philippines, which has a
relatively young workforce who work mainly in sectors which are considered as
hazardous, such as agriculture, manufacturing and construction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young workers suffer higher work-related
injury than older workers as they enter the labour force and half of these
accidents happen during the first six months of their job starting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The young workers have
organised a flash-mob demonstration to mark World Day for Safety and Health,
and a number of small talks, toolbox talks and discussions to help build a
culture of prevention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is just one
example of events being held to raise awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you would like to find out
more about ILO and their events, visit <a href="http://www.ilo.org/safework/lang--en/index.htm"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">http://www.ilo.org/safework/lang--en/index.htm</span></a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Speeding fines to rise from 24 April
2017 – what could this mean for you?</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Following
a review by magistrates, new rules for applying fines and penalties to drivers
caught speeding will apply from 24 April 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Over
100,000 speeding fines are regularly issued each year, which nets HM Treasury
millions of pounds in fines and potentially resulting in bans for dangerous
drivers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The review by magistrates means
that fines for the worst offenders will increase by 50%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This follows the approach taken by the
authorities in respect of mobile phone use while driving whereby penalties for
that offence doubled to £200 fine and six points.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
increase in speeding fines is not so straightforward – currently the maximum
fine for breaking the speed limit is £1000, or £2500 on the motorway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The maximum of £2500 will stay the same, but there
will be speeding bands which means that more offenders will be handed fines to
the highest level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">31-40<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">56-65<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 2cm;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">41-55<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 85.6pt;" valign="top" width="114">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">50<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt;" valign="top" width="170">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">76 and above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.8pt;" valign="top" width="169">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">66-75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 2cm;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">51-65<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 85.6pt;" valign="top" width="114">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt;" valign="top" width="170">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">91 and above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.8pt;" valign="top" width="169">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">81-90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 2cm;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">61-80<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 85.6pt;" valign="top" width="114">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">70<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt;" valign="top" width="170">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">101 and above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.8pt;" valign="top" width="169">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">91-100<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 2cm;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">71-90<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 85.6pt;" valign="top" width="114">
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Points/ disqualification<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 127.55pt;" valign="top" width="170">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Disqualify 7 to 56 days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Or 6 points<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 126.8pt;" valign="top" width="169">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Disqualify 7 to 28 days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Or 4 to 6 points <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) windowtext windowtext rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 2cm;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">3 points<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Under
the new rules, fines for Band C offenders will start at 150 per cent of the
offender’s weekly income.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could
still also be banned from driving for up to 56 days or get six points on their
licence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
current minimum fine of £100 and three points will still remain according to
the website </span><a href="http://www.gov.uk/"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.gov.uk</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, and law abiding citizens with a clean licence may still
be able to avoid points by attending a speed awareness course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This opportunity will not be extended to
previous offenders though, who will see further points added to their current
total.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Hostel owners sentenced over asbestos failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two family run companies have
been fined after admitting health and safety failings at a site in Manchester,
where they were carrying out a basement conversion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Crown Court heard
how Hatters Taverns Limited had appointed sister company Hatters Hostel Limited
as the main contractor for the basement conversion beneath a hostel at 50
Newton Street, Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The project involved the full
strip out and refurbishment of the basement, a former restaurant unit, into a
bar venue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An unannounced visit by the
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was conducted to inspect the ongoing
refurbishment works. During the visit it was discovered there had been no
asbestos survey carried out before tradesmen started stripping out the majority
of the space.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hatters Taverns Limited of 50
Newton Street Manchester pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(3) of the
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and was fined £10,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hatters Hostel Limited of 56-60
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 5(a) of the
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and was fined £24,000 and ordered to pay
the combined costs for both defendants of £10,232.50.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Matt Greenly said after the case: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Both Hatters Hostel and
Hatters Taverns have failed in their duty to protect their workers,
subcontractors and visitors to this site from harm. Asbestos related diseases
are currently untreatable and claim the lives of an estimated 4000 people per
year in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The requirement to have a
suitable asbestos survey is clear and well known throughout the construction
industry. Only by knowing if asbestos is present in any building before works
commence can a contractor ensure that people working on their site are not
exposed to these deadly fibres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The cost of an asbestos survey
is not great but the potential legacy facing anyone who worked on this site is
immeasurable. Exposure to asbestos fibres can potentially cause life shortening
diseases in the long term and Hatters Hostel Limited and Hatters Taverns
Limited should have taken more care to protect workers from totally preventable
exposure. This case sends a clear message to any company that it does not pay
to ignore well known risks on site.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
RHSS Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18275564509848103087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901225129319246594.post-79426810513372819382017-03-27T16:22:00.000+01:002017-03-27T16:22:00.174+01:00
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Legislation Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mobile phones<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTxT12ic_s__mjnN14aeJP9m4ZXItpdJHTA5hyphenhyphenBIDgWpV6fbQLfwcrvKI4MA4IGJzvzfPL5h5P0BmHJCaWOhrNvIQGYc16aR6YEeDytqTwuYncKJ-Xq37I2N7aZmffPmcxwK_BO5gbe0/s1600/mobile-phones-glove-compartment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTxT12ic_s__mjnN14aeJP9m4ZXItpdJHTA5hyphenhyphenBIDgWpV6fbQLfwcrvKI4MA4IGJzvzfPL5h5P0BmHJCaWOhrNvIQGYc16aR6YEeDytqTwuYncKJ-Xq37I2N7aZmffPmcxwK_BO5gbe0/s200/mobile-phones-glove-compartment.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTxT12ic_s__mjnN14aeJP9m4ZXItpdJHTA5hyphenhyphenBIDgWpV6fbQLfwcrvKI4MA4IGJzvzfPL5h5P0BmHJCaWOhrNvIQGYc16aR6YEeDytqTwuYncKJ-Xq37I2N7aZmffPmcxwK_BO5gbe0/s1600/mobile-phones-glove-compartment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Using a handheld mobile phone while driving is
illegal. It has been since 2003. From 1 March, the penalties for holding and
using your phone while driving increased. <strong>It’s now 6 points and £200.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is not illegal to use hands free, but any time a
driver’s attention is not on the road can be dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The facts<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Drivers
using a hands-free or handheld mobile phone are slower at recognising and
reacting to hazards.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Research
shows: <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">You
are four times more likely to be in a crash if you use your phone. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Your
reaction times are two times slower if you text and drive than if you
drink drive, and this increases to three times if you use a handheld
phone. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Even
careful drivers can be distracted by a call or text – and a split-second
lapse in concentration could result in a crash.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The law<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It's
illegal to use a handheld mobile when driving. This includes using your
phone to follow a map, read a text or check social media. This applies
even if you’re stopped at traffic lights or queuing in traffic.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It
is also illegal to use a handheld phone or similar device when supervising
a learner driver.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Southwark pleads guilty over
Lakanal House fire<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A London council has pleaded
guilty to four counts of breaking fire safety regulations over a blaze in a
14-storey tower block that killed six people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Southwark council admitted it
failed to address fire risks at Lakanal House in Camberwell, south-east London,
in the years leading up to the UK’s worst ever tower block fire on 3 July 2009.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The fire, which an inquest
previously found had started in a television in a ninth-floor flat, spread
through the 1958-built block of 98 maisonettes with a ferocity that baffled
firefighters and terrified residents. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Those who died had been told to
stay in their homes by 999 operators, who believed fire safety measures would
be sufficient to prevent flames and smoke from reaching them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">London Fire Brigade, which is
responsible for enforcing fire safety laws, originally brought 22 charges
against Southwark, but in a hearing at Southwark Crown Court, the council
agreed instead to plead guilty to four charges on a revised indictment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Outlining the case against Southwark,
Stephen Walsh QC, representing the fire brigade, said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It was a serious fire from
about four o’clock in the afternoon on that warm day. It started in a piece of
electrical equipment in a bedroom in a flat on the ninth floor.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tragically, six people,
including three children, died on the 10th and 11th floors. But it’s of great
importance that I make the point that this prosecution is concerned with the
risks that existed prior to the fire, because that’s what the fire safety order
is concerned with.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dave Lewis of the Sceaux
Gardens Tenants and Residents Association, who lives in Marie Curie House, an
identical block opposite Lakanal House, said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It was a very tragic day back
in 2009; three children, one 20 days old, lost their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I think it’s appropriate for
the London Fire Brigade to bring this case against Southwark council. I think
Southwark ... have put a lot of time, energy and money into improving fire
safety in high-rise [blocks] and beyond there.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">However, I think this case is
needed because the message needs to go out to landlords, social or otherwise,
that they have responsibilities that can’t be ignored.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dan Daly, London Fire Brigade’s
assistant commissioner for fire safety, said their advice in the event of a
similar incident remains the same: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“If buildings are built and
maintained correctly, walls, floors and doors in flats and maisonettes give you
protection from fire – a minimum of 30 to 60 minutes – so, if there is a fire
elsewhere in the building but not inside your home you’re safer staying in your
flat unless heat or smoke is affecting you. Stay put and call 999. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you leave your flat you
could be rushing into choking smoke, the fire itself or firefighters using
equipment to bring the fire under control in another part of the building.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Southwark spokeswoman said
the council accepted responsibility for the fire and had spent £62m on fire
risk assessment programmes since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: Construction Manager
News<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Steel worker suffers life threatening injuries<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Canvey Island engineering
firm was sentenced today for health and safety breaches after a worker suffered
life-changing injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Southend-on-Sea Magistrates’
Court heard that on 10 June 2015 Felix Trefas, 27, a welder for F. Brazil
Reinforcements Ltd, was making large steel reinforcing cages which were moved
by overhead travelling cranes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When one of these cranes broke
down, a colleague asked Mr Trefas to climb more than an estimated six metres up
the crane supports to re-set the controls. While Mr Trefas was resetting the
faulty crane, his left leg was crushed when he came into contact with another
overhead crane. His leg was later amputated below the knee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The District Judge heard the
overhead cranes were poorly maintained so that workers regularly had to work at
height to re-set them and during the night shift this often involved workers
climbing the crane support column<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Summing up he said this
“horrific accident should never have happened” and that the company “should
have had systems in place” to identify that unsafe access to the cranes was
regularly occurring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The court also heard the toilet
and washing facilities for workers were in an extremely poor and dirty
condition despite having been the subject of previous enforcement action by
HSE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">F. Brazil Reinforcements Ltd of
Romainville Way, Charfleets Industrial Estate, Canvey Island pleaded guilty to
breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and to
two separate breaches of Regulation 4 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and
Welfare) Regulations 1992.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It was fined £277,000 in
relation to the Section 3(1) charge, a single penalty of £5,000 in relation to
the two breaches of Regulation 4, and ordered to pay £11,904 costs and £120
victim surcharge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
Inspector Sue Matthews commented: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It is essential that lifting
equipment is properly maintained and that safe systems of work are in place for
work at height. Employers have a duty to ensure that welfare facilities are
kept clean.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Felix is incredibly lucky that
he was not killed in this incident but he has suffered permanent life-changing
injuries. This preventable workplace accident has changed the life of a
previously fit and hard-working young man irrevocably.”<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employer prosecuted after employee falls from roof<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A self-employed businessman has
been prosecuted after his employee fell from the flat roof of a building and
died from his injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Crown Court heard
how, on 22 December 2013, father of two, Jason Fogarty, a casual employee of
Roy Hardaker (trading as 9 to 5 Roofing), was working on a flat roof
replacement project. He was working alongside Hardaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The roof replacement was
complete and the men were installing cladding and flashing around the top of
the building to seal the edges of the roof. Mr. Fogarty was holding the
cladding sheets in position from a ladder footed by his colleague, while
Hardaker secured the sheets and the flashing from the roof.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Fogarty climbed up onto the
roof and subsequently fell from the edge and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The reason for him climbing to the roof was not discovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A joint investigation carried
out by Greater Manchester Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
found that the work was not properly planned in order to ensure it could be
carried out safely. As a result, there were no measures in place, such as
scaffold edge protection, to prevent falls from the edges of the roof.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Laura Moran said
after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The dangers associated with
working at height are well known.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr. Hardaker is an experienced
roofer, who completely failed in his duties to properly plan the roof
work and to ensure it was carried out safely. By failing to have suitable edge
protection installed around the building, Mr. Hardaker put himself and his
employees at risk, ultimately costing Mr. Fogarty his life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roy Hardaker, 9 to 5 Roofing,
of Oldham, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at
Work etc. Act 1974 and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, suspended for
two years and 200 hours of unpaid work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">London based firm fined after worker's death<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bus Company Go Ahead London has
been sentenced after worker was killed when he fell from a ladder.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Southwark Crown Court heard on
26 May 2011 the worker was using a ladder to access the top of a fuel tank when
he fell two and a half metres backwards, suffering fatal head injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company did not implement and keep to
their own procedures for managing contractors. As a result they failed to
manage their contractors effectively and ensure that they conduct work in a
safe manner.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Go Ahead London of 41-51 Grey
Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne have been found guilty of section 3 (1) of the
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and have been fined £600,000 and ordered to
pay costs of £78,531.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Neil Fry said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This is a tragic case which
could have been entirely preventable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
the company had managed their contractors effectively then the worker would
have returned home safely from work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Self-employed haulage contractor killed by reversing lorry<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Swinton transport company and
a director were in court today following the death of an HGV company owner at
their Sandywood Industrial Estate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Daniel Adams, 63, of Farnworth,
rented a unit on the industrial estate owned by Alec Sharples Farm Supplies and
Transport Limited where the fatal incident occurred on the 7 May 2014.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Crown Court heard
how Mr Adams had been working on one of his own lorries when an HGV owned by
Alec Sharples reversed into Mr Adams’s section of the yard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HGV driver spoke with Mr
Adams. However, when the conversation was over the HGV driver reversed his
truck, inadvertently crushing Mr Adams between the two vehicles. Daniel Adams
was taken to Salford Royal Hospital where he died of internal injuries two days
later.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The incident was investigated
by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which prosecuted Alec Sharples Farm
Supplies and Transport Limited for serious safety failings in the organisation
and operation of the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found the
firm had failed to implement a safe system of work for reversing HGVs and
training drivers. There was no segregation of pedestrians and HGVs or any
banksmen provided.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alec Sharples Farm Supplies and
Transport Ltd of Roscow Road, Kearsley, Bolton pleaded guilty to a breach of
Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined
£30,000 and ordered to pay costs of £14,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing, HSE
Inspector Ian Betley said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This was a tragic and wholly
avoidable incident, caused by the failure of the host company to implement safe
systems of work, and failure to ensure that health and safety documentation was
communicated and followed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This risk was further amplified
by the company’s failure to undertake a number of simple safety measures including
segregating vehicles and pedestrians, ensuring that vehicles were fitted with
reversing ‘bleepers’, and ensuring that reversing manoeuvres were supervised,
in accordance with their site rules.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Container terminal in court after worker injured<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">London Container Terminal
(Tilbury) Limited (LCT) has been fined after a worker was seriously injured
when the ‘straddle’ carrier he was driving overturned at Tilbury Docks in
November 2014.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Basildon Crown Court heard that
on 16 November 2014 a worker inadvertently drove his straddle carrier into a
large excavation at the docks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The court
was told that looking down from his cab, the driver did not see the road cones,
small flashing lights or the ticker tape around the excavation because it was
dark and the weather conditions were poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The straddle carrier, a vehicle
used in the port terminal for stacking and moving freight shipping containers,
toppled over. The worker suffered life changing injuries, his head wound
required 29 staples to close and he continues to suffer from post-traumatic
stress disorder.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the precautions taken by LCT were wholly
inadequate to prevent the vehicle from being able to enter the excavation. The
court heard that all of the straddle carrier drivers working in the vicinity of
the excavation had been exposed to the risk for several days during the course
of the excavation works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">London Container Terminal
Limited of Northfleet Hope House, Tilbury Docks, Tilbury pleaded guilty to
breaching sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and
have been fined £180,000 and ordered to pay costs of £73,296. London Container
Terminal ceased trading in December the fine will be paid by the Port of Tilbury
(London) Limited.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing, HSE
Inspector Nicola Jaynes said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This was a serious incident
and that could have been much worse. This was preventable if LCT had the
correct safety precautions in place. This case serves as a reminder that
suitable precautions are required to protect both pedestrians and vehicles from
entering excavations.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oldham building contractor in court over fall from height risk<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An Oldham based building firm
has been fined for exposing its workers to dangerous work at height.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An Inspector from the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) issued an immediate Prohibition Notice ordering
Select Quality Homes Ltd to stop work at a site at Newmarket Road, Ashton under
Lyne until workers had protection against falling from height. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester City Magistrates
Court heard that an unannounced inspection took place in April 2015. During the
visit the Inspector found that edge protection on the scaffolding was absent or
inadequate in several places and as a result a prohibition notice was issued.
Upon a return visit from HSE to the site the scaffolding was still inadequate. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The court also heard that if
Select Quality Homes Ltd had carried out their duty to plan, manage, and
monitor the site properly, and subsequently followed the advice outlined by
HSE’s Inspector, the defects in the scaffolding would have been resolved
without the need for any formal enforcement action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Select Quality Homes Ltd of
Middleton Road, Chadderton, Oldham pleaded guilty to breaches of Regulation
6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 22 of the Health and
Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was fined £6,600 and ordered to pay costs of
£646.70.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
Inspector David Argument said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This could have been avoided
if Select Quality Homes Ltd had taken simple steps to prevent people from
falling, such as guard rails, mid rails and toe-boards. Prohibition
Notices are only served when an Inspector is concerned there is a risk of
serious injury. Failure to comply with these notices is a criminal
offence and HSE will take robust action when dutyholders do not take action to
control serious risk”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Health and Safety in the news this
week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE to make cost recovery dispute process fully independent<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has announced that it is to consult on proposals to make its cost
recovery scheme dispute process fully independent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The scheme, Fee for
Intervention (FFI) was introduced in October 2012 to shift the cost of
regulating workplace health and safety from the public purse to businesses
which break the law and ensures the cost burden of HSE intervention is picked
up by those companies and not taxpayers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If an inspector identifies
serious health and safety failings in the workplace about which they need to
write to the dutyholder, then that dutyholder has to pay the costs of the HSE
visit. If the inspector simply issues verbal advice there is no charge. If
there is disagreement on HSE’s decision the dutyholder can dispute it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Until now, disputes were
considered by a panel which consisted of two members from HSE and one
independent person. However, after reviewing the current process HSE will
consult with relevant stakeholders with a view to making the process fully
independent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A spokesperson for HSE said:
“HSE has always kept the dispute process under review and following a recent
application for a judicial review we believe the time is right to move to a
dispute process which is completely independent of HSE.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oxfordshire based company fined for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An Oxfordshire based ground
engineering company has been fined after a worker contracted severe hand-arm
vibration syndrome (HAVS).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court
heard how an employee, who was working at the company’s earth retaining
division, known as Phi Group, was eventually diagnosed as suffering from HAVS
after repeatedly flagging his symptoms to the company for over five years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Symptoms of HAVS can include
tingling, numbness and pain in the hands. This affects sleep when it occurs at
night and sufferers have difficulties in gripping and holding things,
particularly small items such as screws, doing up buttons, writing and driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company did not have the right system in
place to manage the workers’ health as it did not have a suitable health
surveillance programme in place to monitor for the early onset of HAVS and to
prevent the irreversible condition from developing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Keller Limited of Oxford Road,
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Coventry, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 7(1) of the
Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 and were fined £6,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £2,263.45.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Mehtaab Hamid said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This was a case of the company
completely failing to grasp the importance of HAVS health surveillance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they had understood why health
surveillance was necessary, it would have ensured that it had the right systems
in place to monitor worker’s health and the employee’s condition would not have
been allowed to develop to a severe and life altering stage”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construction company director imprisoned after safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The director of a construction
company has been imprisoned for eight months after failing to take appropriate
action which resulted in a young worker receiving serious burns.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cardiff Crown Court heard the
young worker was instructed to stand on top of a skip and pour a drum of
flammable thinners onto the burning waste to help it to burn. The fireball that
resulted when the thinners ignited caused the worker to be blown from the skip
and he suffered substantial burns to his arms and legs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company director did not ensure the
burning of the waste material was being carried out in a safe or appropriate
manner. He failed to administer any first aid to the young injured worker and
did not send him to hospital, the most appropriate response given the severity
of the injuries suffered. He failed to inform HSE of the incident, a legal
requirement, and the incident was only reported sometime later by a third party<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David Gordon Stead of Mildred
Street, Beddau, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 37 of the Health and Safety
at Work Act 1974 and also pled guilty to breaching Section 4 (1) of The
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
(RIDDOR), and was sentenced to 32 weeks imprisonment, half on release under
licence. He has also been disqualified from being a company director for seven
years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the case HSE
inspector Adele Davies said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“David Stead failed his
employees. His actions could have resulted in the death of this worker. The
young man suffered unnecessary life threatening injuries due to poor working
standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope this sentence sends
out a message that directors of businesses must take their health and safety
responsibilities seriously.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Building Contractor fined after workers fatal fall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Manchester building
contractor has been jailed following the death of a casual labourer who fell
nearly seven metres through a fragile roof.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The 45-year-old labourer from
Manchester had been carrying out repair work at Witney Mill, Manchester when
the incident occurred on 23 November 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Saleem Hussain had been engaged
by the warehouse owner, who believed him to be a competent building contractor,
to carry out repair and maintenance work on the warehouse roof. He then hired
two people to do the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) investigation found that both workers were not qualified to carry out
work at height. They had accessed the roof via a ladder in order to repair and
seal leaking guttering. No safety precautions were in place to protect the two
men from the danger of falling through the fragile roof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Crown Court heard
that Mr Hussain failed to assess the risks or put a safe working method in
place. No suitable training or equipment to work on the roof had been provided.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Saleem Hussain of Birchfields
Road, Manchester pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and
Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was sentenced to 8 months immediate
imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
Principal Inspector Mike Sebastian said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">”The dangers of falls through
fragile roofs and working at height are well known. Simple steps such as
removing the need to access the roof directly by using mobile working
platforms, or boarding out the roof, or using safety harnesses, can and should
be used to prevent accident and injury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr
Hussain’s failure to take any such actions resulted in a tragic and needless
loss of life”.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suspended sentence for unregistered gas worker<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A man has been fined and given
a suspended prison sentence after working on a number of boilers without being
Gas Safe registered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">High Wycombe Crown Court heard
how Philip Locke carried out work on a boiler in 2013 without being registered,
faults were later found with the boiler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) prosecuting issued a letter to Mr Locke informing him of his responsibility
to be registered in order to work on boilers. Further information given to HSE
suggested that Mr Locke failed to become Gas Safe registered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Philip Locke of Chalfont St
Giles, High Wycombe pleaded of breaching pleaded guilty to two charges under
the Gas Safety Regulations 1998 has been sentenced to four months imprisonment
suspended for one year and fined £6500 and ordered to pay costs of £6280.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Stephen Faulkner said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Philip Locke showed disregard
for the law when he continued to work on gas appliances without certification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This case highlights the importance that
plumbers must be competent and Gas Safe registered to work on gas appliances.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Recycling company fined after worker crushed<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A recycling firm has been fined
after a worker suffered crush injuries from a roller shutter door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Newport Magistrates’ Court
heard how a Recresco Limited employee was injured when the door’s roller barrel
fell on him resulting in three cracked ribs and a damaged spleen, causing him
to miss eight weeks of work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which occurred on the 17 April
2015, found that none of the electronically operated roller shutter doors at
the company’s site had been adequately maintained to keep the equipment safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Recresco Limited of Springvale
Industrial Estate, Cwmbran have pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of
the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and have been fined £50,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £9944.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the case HSE
inspector Lee Schilling said: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case highlights the
importance of regular pro-active maintenance and inspection of work equipment,
including roller shutter doors, to ensure equipment does not deteriorate to the
extent that it puts people at risk. In this case Recresco failed to effectively
maintain their equipment and it could have easily resulted in a fatal injury.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Health and Safety in the news this
week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Why Health and Safety Signage Is Important to Your Business<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 1996 there were 0.9 fatal
injuries per every 100,000 workers, today the figure is 0.4.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">According to the Health and Safety Executive there were 144 UK workers killed at work
between 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. Having the correct signage in place can
lead to greater prevention of accidents in the workplace. <br />
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In November 2016, the HSE released its annual statistics report with information about workplace-related injuries and
illnesses. The HSE UK statistics also showed that there were 1.3 million people
suffering from a work-related illness, over 621,000 work-related injuries and
2,515 people died from mesothelioma due to past asbestos exposure. <br />
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Accidents are unpredictable, however there is a lot that can be done to prevent
accidents happening in the first place. One of the key ways of keeping people
safe in any environment is using the correct signage.<br />
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In the past 20 years, there has been a downward trend in the rate of fatal
work-related injuries. In 1992 the Safety Signs Directive was adopted by all
European Union member states. In 1996 the changes were implemented through the
Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals Regulations) Act. This required
employers to provide specific safety signs whenever there is a risk that has
not been avoided or controlled by other means. <br />
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The introduction of Safety Signs and Signals Regulations protects workers and
members of the public. Since then the rate of fatal injury has reduced by over 50%. In 1996
there were 0.9 fatal injuries per every 100,000 workers, today the figure is
0.4. <br />
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There is a correlation between the introduction of safety signage and a
reduction in the number of accidents. The first step of ensuring safety to
everyone is being able to alert them to danger and having compliant signage in
place. Today there is a huge range of signs available for all types of hazards.
Signage is a small investment, but it will encourage safer working
environments. <br />
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RoSPA’s campaign manager Rebecca Hickman said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Our work over the past 100
years has taught us that accidents do not have to happen, and that’s why we’re
stepping up our activities to help keep people safe. Our mission is to save
lives and reduce injuries and our vision is to lead the way on accident
prevention. RoSPA plays a unique role in UK health and safety. As a member
organisation that campaigns for safety change we also provide services and
support to help organisations on their own journey to become safer and
healthier places in which to work.”<br />
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It is essential for businesses to have up-to-date signage. Enforced by the HSE,
if non-compliant signage is being used it could lead to extensive fines or
serious consequences including prison sentences, personal injuries or even loss
of life. <br />
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Source: NewsNow.co.uk<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Packaging manufacturer in court over workplace injury<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A West Bromwich supplier of
corrugated packaging has been fined after a maintenance employee was injured
when he was pulled into machinery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The injured person was
repairing a cardboard printing, slotting and forming machine at Diamond Box
Ltd’s Shaw Street plant when he put his foot onto an exposed conveyor and was
dragged into the machine’s moving parts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wolverhampton Crown Court heard
that the packaging company allowed uncontrolled maintenance work to take place
without any assessment of the risks posed by maintenance activities or having
procedures in place for safe maintenance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) investigation found that the machinery had a ‘jog mode’ which could have
been set up to enable such maintenance work to be carried out safely, but the
company had not identified this, trained staff to use it or enforced its use.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Diamond Box Ltd of Unit 4, Shaw
St, Hill Top Industrial Estate, West Bromwich, B70 0TX pleaded guilty to a
breach of Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was
fined £400,000 with £9886.04 costs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the case, HSE
Inspector Caroline Lane said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The company relied on the
experience of maintenance employees rather than controlling risks through
careful assessment and putting safe systems of work in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In summing up, his Honour Judge Berlin
considered the maintenance practices used by Diamond Box to be ‘utterly
dangerous’ and the risk to workers was wholly avoidable”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bury demolition contractor fined for failing to prevent exposure
to Asbestos<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A demolition contractor has
been sentenced after admitting illegally removing asbestos from a building he
was working on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David William Briggs, trading
as Briggs Demolition was found to have ignored an asbestos survey while
demolishing the former Oakbank Training Centre in Chadderton, Oldham.
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard he also failed to prevent exposure to
asbestos to workers and others on site.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The firm from Bridge Works,
Wellington Street, Bury, was contracted to demolish the former education centre
off Chadderton Park Road and advised the site owners to have the site surveyed
for asbestos before demolition could began.</span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Briggs recommended a
suitable surveyor and the site owner paid for a full asbestos survey to be
carried out on Mr Briggs’ recommendation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE), prosecuting, told the court that Mr Briggs then chose to ignore the
asbestos report which identified approximately 230 square metres of asbestos
materials throughout the buildings, and began demolition without having any of
it safely removed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE first visited the site in
2015, and met Mr Briggs on site. They found that approximately half of the
buildings had been demolished or partly demolished. When Mr Briggs was asked if
the asbestos had been removed he denied there was any on site.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A HSE Prohibition Notice (PN)
was served on Mr Briggs and on the site owners, stopping work until the extent
of the asbestos disturbance could be established. HSE visited with scientists
from the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) and confirmed the findings of the
original asbestos survey report and identified hazardous asbestos in the
remaining buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The court heard that three
workers were potentially exposed to deadly asbestos fibres. They also heard
that local residents and passers-by to the site were also at risk due to the
uncontrolled method of demolition where large amounts of asbestos were present.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David Briggs was charged with
failing to protect the safety of his employees, failing to protect the safety
other persons not employed by him, i.e. members of the public, failure to
prevent the spread of asbestos and one count of illegally removing asbestos
materials without a license.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David William Briggs of
Wellington Street, Bury, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates’ Court to
breaching Section 2(1) and Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc
Act 1974 and Regulations 8(1) and 16 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations
2012 and was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Matt Greenly said
after the case: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Mr Briggs wilfully ignored a
professional asbestos survey, instigated by himself, and in doing so failed in
his duty to protect his workers and anyone else around this site from a
foreseeable risk of serious harm. Asbestos related diseases are currently
untreatable and claim the lives of an estimated 5,000 people per year in the
UK.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Anyone who worked on this site
at this time, due to the lack of care taken by Mr Briggs, could possibly face a
life shortening disease at some point over the next 30 years from an exposure
which was totally preventable. This case sends a clear message to any
individual or company that it does not pay to ignore known risks on site,
especially to increase profits at the expense of people’s lives”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Firm fined for failing health and safety standards<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Kent-based box manufacturing
company has been fined for health and safety failings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maidstone Crown Court heard how
an external consultant had highlighted a number of concerns eight months prior
to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visit. The visit found areas including
electrical safety, machinery guarding and the storage of materials needed
improvement. As the result of concerns raised by an ex-employee, there were two
visits by the HSE and a total of 14 notices were served.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">W E Roberts (Corrugated)
Limited, of Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, pleaded guilty to breaching
Regulation 11 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
(PUWER); Regulation 4(2) of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, and
Regulation 5(1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
1999, and was fined £297,000 and ordered to pay costs of £14,180.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Robert Hassell
said after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The need to effectively manage
health and safety is not an ideal, it is a regulatory requirement. Employers
need to ensure that any issues in relation to health and safety in the
workplace that are brought to their attention need to be suitably addressed.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Landlord prosecuted for gas safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Preston Landlord has been
given a suspended prison sentence after failing to ensure gas appliances in one
of her properties were checked for safety.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Preston Magistrates Court heard
that following a concern received from Preston City Council about the gas
appliances in a property on Alvern Avenue in Fulwood, the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE) made contact with the landlord, Mrs Pritpall Kaur Singh, 44, to
establish whether she was complying with her legal duties as a landlord to ensure
annual gas safety checks were carried out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mrs Singh failed to co-operate
with HSE and failed to produce a Landlord Gas Safe Record to demonstrate that
these checks had been undertaken correctly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An Improvement Notice (IN) was
issued to Mrs Singh by the HSE for non-provision of a gas safety record for the
gas appliances in her property, but Mrs Singh did not comply with that notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pritpall Kaur Singh pleaded
guilty to breaching section 33(1)(g) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act,
1974 and to one breach of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations
1998 (36 (3)) and was sentenced to a 26 week prison sentence, suspended for 12
months and was ordered to pay £1,000.00 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Anthony Banks commented: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“If you rent property out, you
must comply with requirements of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use)
Regulations, including the need to have a gas safety certificate. Gas
appliances should be regularly checked, as faulty appliances can kill.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Overhead crane worker suffers life threatening injuries<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Cleckheaton engineering firm
was sentenced today for safety breaches after a worker suffered life changing
injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">H E Realisations Ltd (now in
liquidation, formerly Hogg Engineering Ltd) of pleaded guilty to breaching
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Reg 8(1) of the
Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gateshead Magistrates’ Court
heard that on 24 February 2015, Kevin Tait was using equipment to lift an 18
tonne steel roll at the company’s premises at Carlington Court, Factory Road,
Blaydon-on-Tyne. The equipment being used was not suitable for the lifting
operation due to the fact that the load being lifted exceeded the equipment’s
safe working load.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">During the lift, part of one of
the shortening clutches sheared causing the load to swing and strike Mr Tait on
the head. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuting told the court the
lifting operation had not been suitably planned and the equipment in use was
poorly maintained.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">H E Realisations Ltd of
Moorland House, Snelisins Road, Cleckheaton was fined £40,000 and ordered to
pay £2230 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Laura Catterall commented: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Lifting operations are
hazardous and require a competent person to properly plan and supervise them to
ensure that suitable and properly maintained equipment is used in the right
configuration to avoid exceeding safe working loads.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kevin is incredibly lucky that
he was not killed in this incident and he has suffered permanent life changing
injuries as a result. This workplace accident has changed the lives of Kevin
and his family irrevocably.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fencing business owners receive suspended sentences after worker
injury<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The two owners of Kidderminster
based fencing firm Hoo Farm Fencing have been given suspended sentences after a
worker was hit by timber posts and frames which fell from a fork lift truck.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Forty-nine year old Raymond
Lainsbury suffered injuries that still require regular physiotherapy sessions
following the incident on 12 February 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Worcester Magistrates’ Court
heard how Hoo Farm Fencing’s method of working was unsuitable for the task they
were carrying out at the time of the incident. Mr Lainsbury was helping to dip
timber posts and frames in preservative, when they fell from the metal frame on
the fork lift truck, striking him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) investigation found that the company had not been using the suitable
equipment for the task. The operator had not been properly trained to operate a
fork lift truck. The company also failed to have the fork lift truck in
question thoroughly examined up to required standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maurice James Blackford of
Minster Road, Stourport, Kidderminster, pleaded guilty to breaching section 2(1)
of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Susan Hawthorne of Blackthorne
House, Hartlebury Road pleaded guilty to the same breach.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Both were sentenced to 18 weeks
imprisonment suspended for two years and fined £10,000 each. Full Prosecution
costs of £4318 split between the two defendants, were awarded to the Health and
Safety Executive (HSE) that prosecuted the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Tariq Khan said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The seriousness of the safety
failings could have resulted in much more severe injuries to Mr Lainsbury who
was lucky to walk away from this incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case highlights the
importance of maintaining proper safety practices and also all duty holders
will be held accountable for failing to do so.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Steep rise in health and safety fines<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The largest UK fines for health and safety incidents
have increased substantially in the past year, with some of the biggest brands
in business having to pay millions of pounds for failing to control serious
risks to employees and the public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">There
were 19 fines of £1 million or more in 2016 - the largest being £5 million.
This compares with three fines of £1 million or more in 2015 and none in 2014. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
rise in fines is a result of the introduction of new sentencing guidelines for
health and safety offences, which came into force on 1 February 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It
is hoped that the possibility of larger penalties will make employers take
greater care to ensure people are not harmed by their activities, according to
the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). This, IOSH says, can
in turn help businesses become more successful. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Shelley
Frost, Executive Director of Policy at IOSH, said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Health
and safety offences can ruin lives, devastate families and inhibit precious
talent. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Whilst
you cannot put a value on human life, the level of fines now being handed out
recognises society's disapproval of serious corporate failures that lead to
injury, illness and death. It reflects a desire to deter others from making the
same errors and takes significant steps forward in aligning penalties for these
offences with other regulatory breaches in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Protecting
employees and others affected by a business's operations will not only
eliminate the risk of a large financial penalty but can also be key to ensuring
and maintaining an organisation's strong reputation and ultimately contributing
to its success." <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">For
the first anniversary of this change in legal guidance for the courts, IOSH, in
association with Osborne Clarke LLP's specialist health and safety legal team,
has revealed the results of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
exploring the impact of the new sentencing guidelines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This
shows that the largest 20 fines imposed for health and safety offences last
year cost the businesses involved a total of £38.6 million. In comparison, the
largest 20 fines in 2015 and 2014 cost £13.5 million and £4.3 million
respectively.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Not
every fine in 2016's largest 20 involved a fatality, with the guidelines
deeming that it is enough for a company's health and safety failings to have
caused injury, or put people at substantial risk of injury or death, to warrant
a large financial penalty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">For
example, the largest fine was the £5 million that Merlin Entertainments was
ordered to pay after five people were seriously hurt in a rollercoaster crash
at its Alton Towers theme park. Following the sentencing, the organisation said
its focus on safety is "sharper and more engrained than ever".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
broken leg and dislocated ankle suffered by actor Harrison Ford while filming
Star Wars: the Force Awakens resulted in a £1.6 million fine for Foodles
Production. The Health and Safety Executive said it could have resulted in more
serious injury or even death. Foodles stated: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"The
safety of our cast and crew was always a top priority and we deeply regret this
unfortunate on-set accident. The Court acknowledged both the additional safety
protocols that were immediately implemented, and that it was a very safe
production in all other respects." <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Most
fines imposed by courts in 2016 related to health and safety offences which
took place before the guidelines were introduced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A
partner at law firm Osborne Clarke LLP specialising in health and safety, said:
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"The
increase in fines being issued by the courts demonstrates a desire to drive the
message home that ensuring health and safety within a working environment is
fundamental. So while fines regularly exceeded the million pound mark last
year, we can expect to see even larger fines going forward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I
see many businesses who focus on the safety and health of employees and others
experiencing a broad range of benefits, including being better placed to
attract and retain talent, scoring points in procurement processes for valuable
contracts or even when seeking external investment." <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Before
the introduction of the guidelines, there was little assistance for courts
sentencing health and safety offences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
2016 guidelines, a 40-plus page document, provide a step-by-step guide for
sentencing both companies and individuals for health and safety, and food,
offences. This includes taking into account the turnover of the organisation,
the level of culpability and the likelihood that the failing could lead to harm
and how bad the harm could be. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.iosh.co.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.iosh.co.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Construction firm was
sentenced today for safety breaches after workers were exposed to carbon
monoxide and other substances hazardous to health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hull Magistrates Court heard
how, in October 2015, the workers were using a petrol powered saw to cut out an
existing concrete floor at a fish factory in Hull. In order to protect the food
factory surfaces from dust they constructed a sealed enclosure from timber and
polythene. The workers were inside the area working over a weekend, the space
was not ventilated and there was a build-up of carbon monoxide, which lead to
one worker being hospitalised.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found the company had not planned the work or thought
through the dangers an un-ventilated tent would cause. The company should have
used a system of dust suppression and local exhaust ventilation (LEV) together
with appropriate respiratory protective equipment to prevent or reduce exposure
to harmful dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Westlands Construction Ltd,
Sproatley, Hull pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health and
Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined £16,000 with £847.30 costs by Hull
Magistrates Court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Jennifer Elsegood commented: “Petrol driven saws should not be used
in a confined space because of the risk of carbon monoxide exposure. Carbon
monoxide is extremely dangerous it has no smell and workers can be overcome by
the fumes before they realise they have been affected – making it extremely
dangerous. This is why it is known as the silent killer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three companies from Essex have
been fined after a worker fell over seven metres through a fragile roof he was
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Chelmsford Crown Court heard
how Rafal Myslim was standing on the fragile roof at Dengie Crops Ltd in
Asheldem, when the asbestos sheeting gave way and he fell 7.5m onto a concrete
floor, hitting a number of pipes within the building on the way down. There was
no safety netting or other protective equipment to prevent him from falling and
he suffered a hematoma on the brain.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found three companies at fault for the fall. Dengie Crops
Ltd contracted Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd, who are an agricultural machinery
supplier, to help the company replace their roof. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd did not have the
appropriate experience and subcontracted the work to Balsham (Buildings) Ltd
who worked out how the roof replacement should take place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Balsham then subcontracted the actual
replacement of the roof to Strong Clad Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ernest Doe & Sons Ltd were
unable to act effectively in their role as principal contractor because they
had no experience of working in construction. They could not effectively
oversee Balsham (Buildings) Ltd plans that had highlighted the risk of a fall.
None of the parties involved put in place safety measures for 40% of the roof
that did not have netting below. They relied too heavily on the verbal
briefings to workers reminding them of where the netting was rather than
putting in place effective safety measures for the whole roof.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Ulting, Essex, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 22 of the Construction
(Design and Management) Regulations 2007. They were fined £360,000 and ordered
to pay costs of £10,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Balsham (Buildings) Ltd, of
Balsham, Cambridge, pleaded guilty to breaching 4(1)(a) and 4(1)(c) of the Work
at Height Regulation 2005. They were fined £45,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£7,000<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Strong Clad Ltd, of Castle
Hedingham, Essex, pleaded guilty to breaching 4(1)(a) and 4(1)(c) of the Work
at Height Regulation 2005. They were fined £7,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£3,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Adam Hills said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The dangers of working on
fragile roofs are well documented. Every year too many people are killed or
seriously injured due to falls from height while carrying out this work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work at height requires
adequate planning, organisation and communication between all parties. This
incident was entirely preventable and Mr Myslim is lucky to be alive.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An unregistered gas fitter from
Farnborough has been prosecuted for carrying out illegal gas work which was
found to be unsafe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Basingstoke Magistrates’ court
heard how Mr Leask, who also trades as Eldan Plumbing, had assured the homeowner
that he was Gas Safe Registered. When he was unable to supply the gas safe
certificate months after installing the boiler, the homeowner contacted Gas
Safe, who confirmed Mr Leask was not gas safe registered. When inspected by the
Gas Safe Register the boiler was found to be ‘at risk’, which indicates a risk
to life or property.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Leask pleaded guilty to
breaching Regulation 3(3) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations
1998, for carrying out gas work without being gas safe registered and
Regulation 3(7) for falsely pretending to be gas safe registered.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He was fined £1230 and ordered
to pay costs of £350.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">British man dies working on
Qatar World Cup stadium<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A British man has died after
falling off a suspended platform while working on a World Cup stadium in Qatar.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Construction conditions have come under
sharp scrutiny since the country was awarded the 2022 football tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The man, 40, reportedly fell
when the platform, used to manage sound and lighting, collapsed at the Khalifa
International Stadium on Thursday last week, its construction firm contractor
said. The man’s safety harness was said to have been cut during the fall.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The project to renovate the
stadium, which is described by organisers as “Qatar’s most historic stadium,”
is being supervised by Belgian Company Besix in partnership with local company
Midmac Contracting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A statement from construction
firm Midmac-Six Construct said that a lever hoist supporting the platform
failed “for unknown reasons”, adding that it was working with the local
authorities to investigate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“All of the partners involved
in this project are devastated by such a tragic loss of life and we extend our
deepest condolences to the victim’s family, friends and colleagues,” the
statement said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rights group Amnesty
International says it is the second death reported by the organisers related to
a workplace incident at a Qatar stadium in the last three months.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Labour’s shadow sports minister
Rosena Allin-Khan said: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“FIFA and the Qatari authorities are putting profit
before safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My thoughts go out to the
friends and family of the person who tragically died working on a construction
site in Qatar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unacceptable that
basic health and safety precautions are not being followed. FIFA and the Qatari
authorities should not be putting profit before safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FIFA President Gianni Infantino needs to show
where his priorities lie, launch an urgent investigation and ensure everything
is done to protect workers.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.newsnow.com/">www.newsnow.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crisp Company fined for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Northamptonshire company who
manufacture crisps and snacks has been fined after an agency worker lost the
tops of three fingers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Northampton Crown Court heard
how an agency worker, working at Tayto Group Limited was clearing a blockage of
material from a machine on the production line.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The worker’s hand came into
contact with shears and three fingers on his right hand were severed below the
first knuckle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident, which occurred in August 2015,
found that the guard on the machine was not secured at the time of the
incident. The Company had not implemented a formal monitoring system on this
machine to ensure that all guards were in place and secure, before the machine
was started.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tayto Group Limited, of
Princewood Road, Earlstrees Industrial Estate, Corby, Northamptonshire, pleaded
guilty to breaching Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998 (PUWER), and was fined £330,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£11,752.23.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
Inspector Michelle Morrison said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">‘This man suffered a
life-changing injury in what was an entirely preventable incident. Employers
must have adequate and robust systems to ensure that guards used to prevent
access to dangerous parts of machinery are in place and secure before machinery
is put into use.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jaguar Land Rover fined £900,000 after worker injured<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">National car manufacturer
Jaguar Land Rover has been fined after a worker lost their leg following a car
accident.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Birmingham Crown Court heard
that on Sunday 8 February 2015 at Jaguar’s Lode Lane plant in Solihull, a Range
Rover Sport vehicle was driven toward the start of the production line, an
event that normally happens 48 times an hour. On this occasion the delivery
driver lost control of the car and collided with the rear of another vehicle he
had just delivered, causing a 4 car shunt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At the same time a worker was
crossing the production line and became trapped between the second and third
cars. His injuries resulted in amputation of his right leg above the knee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two other employees also suffered minor
injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that the company had failed to ensure that the
driver of the Range Rover, who was covering the shift, was familiar with
procedures. They had also failed to properly separate the workers on the
production line from the moving vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jaguar Land Rover, were found
guilty of breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
and fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of £49,800.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector John Glynn said: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“A worker has been left with
life changing injuries that were completely avoidable, it was only good fortune
that prevented this from being a fatal accident. Jaguar Land Rover knew the
risks of driving vehicles onto production lines and the possibility of shunt
accidents, but failed to protect their workers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Asbestos Analyst fined for falsifying documents<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An asbestos analyst has been
fined after he falsified an asbestos air clearance certificate, following
licensed asbestos removal in Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Greater Manchester Magistrates’
Court, sitting at Manchester and Salford Court House, heard how, on 19<sup>th</sup>
November 2015, Mr Barrie Lyons, a well-trained asbestos analyst with 29 years
of experience, was contracted to carry out the final inspection and air testing,
following asbestos removal at a construction site in central Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Lyons’ task included a
thorough examination of the area where asbestos had been removed from, within
the defined enclosure itself and the areas surrounding it. He also had a series
of air samples to collect and evaluate, to ensure that the air was
substantially free of asbestos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that Mr Lyons had failed to carry out a
suitable inspection of the site and had not carried out the correct amount of
air sampling, despite his report to his employer and the client indicating that
he had. In effect, Mr Lyons had deliberately falsified his report and so his
published results could no longer be relied upon. The asbestos removal
contractor had no option but to have a second clearance test carried out which
incurred significant delays and additional expense.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Matthew Greenly
said after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Asbestos analysts play a vital
role in ensuring that areas are safe to enter after asbestos is removed. Mr
Lyons sadly chose on this occasion to falsify his records which was a massive
abuse of the trust placed in him by the client.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This deliberate act increased
the risk of numerous people potentially being exposed to asbestos, a risk Mr
Lyons would be very well aware of from his experience, all to save a little
time and finish the job early.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is hoped that the industry
uses this case as a reminder that anyone involved in asbestos removal must do
everything reasonable to protect people from a material which causes around
4000 deaths per year in the UK.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Barrie Lyons, of Bishops
Stortford, Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 7(a) of the
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £2000 and ordered to pay
costs of £3905.73<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rochdale roofing contractor fined over fall from height risk<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A roofing contractor has been
fined after putting the lives of two employees at risk whilst working at height
without protection against falls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The employees of MW Roofing
(NW) Ltd were removing a chimney on a two storey house, at the site on Bertha
Road, Rochdale, when they were seen accessing the roof via a cat ladder. Waste material was being removed by buckets carried down the ladder. The
company had not put in place any safety measures to prevent people falling off
the roof.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester City Magistrates
heard that despite having previously received warnings from the Health and
Safety Executive about their unsafe working at height practice the company
still continued to work in a dangerous manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">MW Roofing (NW) Ltd of Bury
Road, Bamford, Rochdale pleaded guilty to two breaches, Regulation 4(1) of the
Work at Height Regulations 2005 and Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at
Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,440.60.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
Inspector David Argument said: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“You cannot ignore the dangers of working at
height, it remains the main cause of death and serious injury in the workplace,
particularly in the construction industry. Simple measures, such as providing
guard rails can prevent death and serious injury”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Waste company fined after worker run over<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Welsh landfill company have
been fined after a worker had to have both legs amputated after being run over.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mold Crown Court heard how the
worker was walking across the yard at the Bryn Posteg Landfill site in
Llanidloes, when they were hit by a large shovel loader on 6 November 2015. The
worker suffered severe injuries and needed both legs amputated at the mid-thigh
and was hospitalised for six-months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the company did not have and controls in place
to protect workers from the high volume of vehicles and traffic on site.
Although they had previously identified the risk and how they could prevent
workers being hit by vehicles they did not put the measures in places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sundorne Products (Llanidloes)
Limited, part of the Potter Group, in Henfaes lane, Welshpool, Powys pleaded
guilty to breaching Section 2 and Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work
(1974) Act and were fined £180,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,657.10.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Mhairi Duffy
said: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It is extremely important to identify how to protect your workers but
you must back this up with action. This worker’s and his families lives have
been changed forever because Sundorne Products Ltd failed to take action and
protect their workers from being run over by vehicles on the site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All businesses that have high
volumes of vehicles on their site can learn from this case.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Banned from using antibacterial wipes <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An employee was advised that
using antibacterial wipes to clean inside vehicles could lead to the
development of a ‘superbug’.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Panel opinion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Superbugs are a real cause for
concern for everyone, but the use of chemical disinfectants in antibacterial
wipes is not going to make the situation worse when used correctly. The advice
on the use of antibacterial wipes is to use one wipe per surface and then
discard to avoid potentially spreading any bacteria to other surfaces. They are
effective for the purpose being proposed, and seem like a sensible choice.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">IOSH: PM’s mental health pledge “a step in right
direction” <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Prime Minister Theresa May’s pledge to improve
mental health services in UK workplaces is “a step in the right direction”,
according to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mrs
May has announced plans to overhaul mental health care in the UK, saying
"there's not enough help to hand" for anyone experiencing problems.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Included
in a raft of measures she introduced during a speech on Monday 9 January are a
review into improving support in workplaces - headed up by mental health
campaigner Lord Stevenson and Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of the charity Mind
- and providing employers with additional training to support staff who need to
take time off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">IOSH
recognises that businesses need to ensure that they are taking positive steps
to manage mental health in the workplace. Following Mrs May's speech, Shelley
Frost, Executive Director of Policy at IOSH, said: </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">"We
believe this announcement by the Prime Minister on increased employer support
for mental health is a step in the right direction. We're delighted that
messages from our Westminster awareness-raising event, 'Promoting mental health
at work', have registered with Government. We need better-designed and managed
work through improved education, training and awareness and employers have an
important role to play. IOSH is currently funding research in this area and
will be pleased to share the findings with the Government, to help inform their
policy." <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
IOSH-funded research into this area will include looking at the effectiveness
of mental health training and the processes and barriers associated with
returning to work after mental illness.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
plans to improve mental health services in workplaces have also been welcomed
by the Institute of Directors, with the organisation's Director General Simon
Walker saying employers have "a real role to play". </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Source: <a href="http://www.newsnow.co.uk/">www.newsnow.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construction Company fined after contractor receives life
changing injuries<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Lincolnshire based
construction company, specialising in fitting mezzanine floors was prosecuted
after a contractor fell onto a concrete floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Guildford Crown Court heard
that M & L Installers Ltd were contracted to install a mezzanine floor at a
factory in Sunbury on Thames, Surrey. The design included a hole in the
mezzanine floor where a lift was due to be installed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A contractor who was working on
the floor fell just over 3.5 metres, and suffered life threatening injuries,
when he stepped backwards through the hole on 13 January 2015. He was
hospitalised for 2 months after receiving a severe brain injury and has not
been able to work since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that the company failed to guard the hole for the
lift or board it up preventing anyone from falling through.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">M & L Installers Ltd
pleaded guilty to a breach of the Work at Height Regulations, Regulation 6(3)
and were fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £9165.56 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Inspector, Amanda Huff,
commented after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The contractor’s injuries were
life changing and he could have easily been killed. This serious incident and
devastation could have been avoided if basic safeguards had been put in place”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company prosecuted after workers were severely burned<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A North East engineering
company was sentenced today for safety breaches after two of its workers were
burned when they were sprayed with chemicals during chemical cleaning of a
pipework system.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Newcastle Crown Court heard that,
on 31 July 2014, two employees of PSL Worldwide Projects Ltd received serious
burns while working at a Hyclone UK Ltd site in Cramlington. The workers were
using Sodium Hydroxide granules to clean a pipe system. A reaction occurred
between the chemicals and water in the system that caused the liquid to heat up,
building up pressure in the hose. The hose detached and sprayed the two workers
with the solution, causing severe burns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One operative received life
threatening burns to his back, buttocks, arms, leg, neck and one side of his
face. The other operative received burns to the right side of his head, his
neck, and back, left arm and behind his right ear.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) identified that the task was not adequately risk
assessed by PSL Worldwide Projects Ltd, the equipment provided to do the job,
in particular the hosing, was not suitable for the solution, and the company
failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to its
employees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PSL Worldwide Projects Ltd of
Bridgewater Lane, Washington, Tyne and Wear, pleaded not guilty to breaching
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 on 28 November 2016 at
Bedlington Magistrates Court but they were found guilty and the case was
referred to Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing. They were fined £150,000 by
Newcastle Crown Court. No costs were awarded due to the company being in
liquidation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Laura Catterall commented: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“If a suitable risk assessment
had been undertaken it would have identified that the equipment being used was
not right for the chemicals or the work being carried out. All companies who
work with high hazard chemicals should learn from this case and ensure that
their workers are properly protected.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crisp company fined for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Northamptonshire company who
manufacture crisps and snacks has been fined after an agency worker lost the
tops of three fingers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Northampton Crown Court heard
how an agency worker, working at Tayto Group Limited was clearing a blockage of
material from a machine on the production line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The worker’s hand came into contact with shears and three fingers on his
right hand were severed below the first knuckle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident, which occurred in August 2015,
found that the guard on the machine was not secured at the time of the
incident. The company had not implemented a formal monitoring system on this
machine to ensure that all guards were in place and secure before the machine
was started.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tayto Group Limited, of
Princewood Road, Earlstrees Industrial Estate, Corby, Northamptonshire, pleaded
guilty to breaching Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998 (PUWER), and was fined £330,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£11,752.23.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
Inspector Michelle Morrison said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This man suffered a
life-changing injury in what was an entirely preventable incident. Employers
must have adequate and robust systems to ensure that guards used to prevent
access to dangerous parts of machinery are in place and secure before machinery
is put into use.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Children banned from waiting in car at Recycling centre<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A recycling centre manager
requested that children be removed from their parent’s car and taken outside
the centre to wait as they are not allowed on site for health and safety
reasons.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Panel opinion<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is specific industry guidance
which clearly states that “children should stay in the car” at civic amenity
sites, so this is a badly misinformed myth. It is also a dangerous myth,
in that the “health and safety” excuse used could have led to a greater risk to
the children. Managers at waste and recycling sites should know their industry
standards much better than this.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company told by insurers to employ a professional ‘Keyholding
Service’ to comply with health and safety regulations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Issue<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Company with an employee
nominated as a primary intruder alarm keyholder was told by insurers that there
is a legal requirement to establish a "Keyholding Service" with a
professional security company in order to comply with health and safety
regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Panel opinion<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employers do need to take steps
to ensure that those responding to alarm call outs are not exposed to a risk of
violence. Those steps will be based on an assessment of the risks to their
employees. Whilst a ‘keyholding’ service’ may form part of a safe system of work,
there is no legal requirement to engage such a service. The insurance company
should not have implied that this was the case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Engineering firm fined over safety breach<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An engineering firm was
sentenced for safety breaches after a worker suffered life affecting injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard
how 39 year old father of two James Smith suffered a shattered knee cap in
October 2015 when his leg was struck by a rotating chuck of a CNC lathe machine
at Sigma Technologies Ltd’s Bradford plant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that the foot pedal that operated the jaws of the
chuck was faulty and the machine’s safety mechanism had been overridden. The
company had allowed the machines to be operated with the guards open for
setting and polishing for some time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sigma Technologies Ltd of
Dockfield Road, Shipley, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined £31,500 with £2,222.10 costs by Leeds
Magistrates’ Court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Andrea Jones commented: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The risks associated with CNC
machines include entanglement with rotating parts or ejection of components
resulting in serious injuries. The safe guarding principles of CNC machines are
well established.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is essential that CNC
machines are only operated for setting purposes with the guards open on a
limited speed and limited functionality programme. Overriding the safety
mechanisms should never be allowed by management or supervisors.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construction Company fined after worker injured<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A construction company from
Crawley, West Sussex has been sentenced after a worker fell from scaffolding
and was injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Paisley Sheriff’s Court heard
how Alan Wilson, a sole trader contracted to supply labour to carry out all
joinery work, fell from scaffolding between timber panels at a construction
site at Ivy Gardens, Millerston, Paisley on 3 February 2012. At the time of the
incident Mr Wilson, who had worked for the Company periodically for over an
eight year period, was erecting a timber frame to construct a block of two
storey properties.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the Company had failed to make and put in
place suitable arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control,
monitoring and review of the work at height being carried out on the timber
frame of a new build property by a contractor engaged by them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">They had also failed to
sufficiently assess the risk to the safety of the workers on their sites.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">O’Brien Properties Ltd,
Brighton Road, Crawley, West Sussex, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1)
of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (1974) and were fined £7,500.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Staffordshire Logistics Company fined over safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Logistics company based in
Staffordshire has been fined after two employees were injured in two days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oxford Crown Court heard how a
39 year old male employee sustained crush injuries to his left foot when he was
hit by a forklift truck (FLT) at the Oxford Mini plant on 6 October 2014. The
court also heard that the following day a 55 year old Operations Manager
sustained severe injuries including internal bleeding, a fractured pelvis and
punctured lungs after a large metal box became unstable and fell from the forks
of a truck striking and pinning him underneath. He was walking along a marked
pedestrian walkway at the time of the incident.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) investigation found that FLT operators and their supervisors were not
properly trained and the risk assessments in place were poor. The investigation
also found that there was inadequate segregation of pedestrians and vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Kelly Nichols said: “It is vital that drivers are competent and have
received appropriate information, instruction and training. Sites should be
well-designed and maintained with suitable segregation of vehicles and people
in order to minimise the risk of workplace transport accidents.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The risks from workplace
transport in warehouses and the required control measures to manage those risks
are well known and publicised in HSE publications. It is really disappointing
to find Rudolph & Hellmann Automotive Limited (RHA) failing to manage and
control the risks associated with the lifting and movement of vehicles and
goods in a busy workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Sadly, in this case, the
prosecution shows that RHA’s management of FLT driving operations and risk
control measures failed which exposed employees to danger from falling loads
and from being struck by a vehicle. These serious injuries were preventable.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rudolph & Hellmann
Automotive Limited, of Sandford Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire, pleaded
guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act
1974, and was fined £265,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £14,943.30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fatal accident to company Managing Director<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A textile manufacturing company
and one of its directors, Wazir Hussain were sentenced after a fatal accident
to the company’s Managing Director, 36 year old Nasir Hussain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On the 1 February 2012 the
carding machine forming part of a production line at Felt Supplies Ltd
Dewsbury, had become blocked with waste. Nasir Hussain, brother of Wazir
Hussain, gained access to the line whilst it was still running.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Leeds Crown Court heard how
Nassir overrode the safety system using a spare key to unlock one of the gates.
He then stood on top of the carding machine with a metal bar in order to clear
the blockage while the line was still running. Although the machine was
switched off after a time it was still running down when his clothing became
entangled and he was pulled into the machine and killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found the use of a spare key to access machinery, whilst it
was operational, was commonplace by the workforce. It was custom and practice
for workers to gain access to the machinery in order to clear a jam or
blockage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Despite HSE issuing a
Prohibition Notice to stop these unsafe practices and taking the spare keys
into possession the unsafe practices were allowed to continue for a sustained
period following the fatal accident with the knowledge and consent of company
director Wazir Hussain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Felt Supplies Ltd of Wharfedale
Business Park, Edward Street, Bradford, pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2(1)
and 22(2) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974 and was fined £175,000
with £64,165.55 costs by Leeds Crown Court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wazir Hussain of Garden Street,
Dewsbury, pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2(1) and 22(2) of the Health and
Safety at Work Act 1974 and was handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended
for 18 months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Jacqueline Ferguson commented: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This is a tragic incident that
could so easily have been avoided. In this case it was the Director that was
fatally injured and it could so easily have been an employee, in which case, we
may have been looking at a corporate manslaughter charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Companies should be aware that HSE will not
hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action against those that fall below
the required standards especially where there has been a deliberate breach or a
flagrant disregard for the law.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Air conditioning Maintenance Company in court over worker’s fall<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Leeds based air conditioning Maintenance
Company has been fined after a worker fell 3 metres through a false ceiling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The 26 year old worker from
Warrington suffered serious injuries in the incident which occurred at Iceland
Foods Ltd in Clayton, Manchester, on the 17 June 2015.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The incident was investigated
by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which prosecuted ICH Ltd for serious
safety failings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Magistrates Court
heard that two engineers had been replacing a motor in an air handling unit. One
worker was stood on a working platform, accessed via the cold room roof
surrounded by a wooden barrier, on which the other engineer was stood.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Whilst stood on the platform
fitting the new motor, the engineer stepped backwards off the platform, which
was positioned over a false ceiling, falling three metres to the ground below.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">ICH Ltd of Union Bridge Works,
Roker Lane, Leeds pleaded guilty to a breach of Regulation 4(1) of the Work at
Height Regulation 2005 and was fined £20,000.00 and ordered to pay costs of
£1,050.18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
Inspector Jennifer French said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Falls from height continue to
account for a significant proportion of all workplace deaths and serious
injuries. Businesses should ensure that all work at height, including work on
false ceilings, is properly planned, properly supervised and carried out
safely.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Trio of firms fined £2million after worker’s leg is broken in
trench collapse<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three companies have been
sentenced in Lincoln Crown Court after a worker’s leg was broken in six places
when a trench which he was working in collapsed on him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vincent Talbot, 47, from
Lincoln, suffered serious leg injuries when his leg was crushed in the incident
at Fleet Street, Holbeach, Lincolnshire on 9 March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He was trapped in the trench
for 15 minutes before being extracted by the fire and rescue service and then
airlifted to hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His right ankle has been left
permanently damaged, pointing 10 degrees off line. He was off work for more
than a year and vows never to work in a trench again.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found insufficient measures were taken to protect
those working in trenches, and a series of safety errors had led to the
collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Principal contractor, Kier MG
Ltd, was appointed by Lincolnshire County Council to install new storm drains.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kier MG Ltd sub-contracted the
installation work to John Henry & Sons (Civil Engineers) Ltd, who
subsequently further sub-contracted the work to Lawless Civils Ltd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr Talbot was a self-employed contractor hired
by Lawless Civils Ltd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Henry &
Sons (Civil Engineers) Ltd, failed to inform Kier MG of the appointment of
Lawless Civils Ltd. Lawless were approved contractors of Kier MG
but not approved for this type of specialist excavation work. Lawless
appointed a supervisor who had never supervised work, and he did not have the
relevant training and qualifications to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the accident to Vince
Talbot, John Henry & Sons (Civil Engineers) Ltd, backdated the method
statement to give the impression that it was signed by the workers prior to the
trench collapsing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A three-metre long trench box
shielded workers but the pipes being laid in the trench were six metres long,
meaning workers weren’t protected over the length of the pipe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Other trench support systems
such as trench sheeting were not used, and the unsupported trench had water
leaking into it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The trench had been left open
overnight and concrete was being used to bed the pipes in at the bottom of the
trench, instead of pea gravel as specified by the client.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Water mixed with the concrete,
making the pipe levelling process extremely difficult as the level of the pipe
bed had to be continuously adjusted.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When Vince Talbot was
attempting to level a pipe section for a second time, the sides of the trench
collapsed and trapped him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kier MG Ltd (formerly known as
May Gurney Ltd) of Tempsford Hall, Sandy, Bedfordshire, pleaded guilty to
breaching Regulation 22(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management)
Regulations 2007. They were fined £1.5million and ordered to pay £23,327.83.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">John Henry & Sons (Civil
Engineers) Ltd of Barnwell Road, Cambridge denied the charge but was found
guilty, after a trial of breaching section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at
Work etc Act 1974. They were fined £550,000 and ordered to pay
£166,217.86.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lawless Civils Ltd of
Doddington Road, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. They were fined £40,500 and ordered to
pay £53,346.59.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Martin Waring
said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This incident was foreseeable
and avoidable and Mr Talbot’s injuries were the result of multiple failings by
the duty holders, from the planning stage through to the execution of the
project, resulting in the inevitable collapse of an unsupported trench.
Sufficient trench support systems were not provided.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Even while the excavation phase
had begun, a catalogue of errors and omissions led to the injuries of Vincent
Talbot. It is inevitable that at some time an unsupported trench will collapse,
for this reason safe systems of work, should be in place in order to protect
persons who work in trenches. We could easily have been dealing with a fatal
incident.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crushing plant operative left seriously injured<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A crushing plant firm has been
fined after worker lost his left arm when it was dragged into exposed
machinery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rotherham Magistrates Court
heard how the worker was cleaning down a large piece of machinery at a titanium
alloy processing plant in Rotherham when his left arm was dragged into part of
part of the unguarded mechanism, the belt and flywheel. One of his colleagues
heard him screaming and found him unconscious, initially believing he was dead.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that workers on the crushing plant were required to
clean down the machinery after each batch to ensure the titanium product was
not contaminated; this placed them immediately next to unguarded belt and
flywheels. Although the company had enclosed all the machinery with a fence
including an interlocked gate, which ensured that the machinery was not powered
when the gate was open, the belt and the flywheel could still move with
considerable power if it was caught or nudged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The worker was 56 years old at
the time of the incident on 2 September 2014. He suffered crush injuries to his
left upper limb so severe it had to be amputated above the elbow. He had
previously worked for the company for 24 years but has not been able to return
to work following the incident.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">AMG Superalloys UK Ltd of
Fullerton Road, Rotherham, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) of the
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined £240,000 with £227,941.55
costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Carol Downes
said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This entirely preventable
incident resulted in serious life changing injuries to a worker. The risks of
unguarded machinery are well-known within the industry. If AMG
Superalloys had carried out their legal duty and assessed the risk of this
piece of equipment and how the workers cleaned the machine they would have
realised the dangers they were exposed to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fitting simple guards would have prevented this worker’s arm from been
dragged in, resulting in his life-changing injuries and the continuous pain he
is still suffering.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Asbestos removal supervisor fined for exposing workers to deadly
fibres<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An asbestos removal supervisor
has been sentenced after admitting exposing numerous workers to deadly asbestos
fibres during licensed asbestos removal works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Magistrates Court
heard that a concern was received by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
claiming that Alan Burdett was allowing people into the sealed asbestos
enclosure, which is designed to keep dangerous fibres from escaping and
contaminating people or other areas, without any form or protective clothing or
face mask.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alan Burdett was a supervisor
for Asbestos Decontamination Services Limited of Erdington, Birmingham, and was
engaged in large scale asbestos ceiling removal at the vacant Raleigh House,
Discovery Park, Stockport, where he was in control of a group of removal
operatives on a day-to-day basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE’s investigation found that
significant amount of metal framework which had supported the asbestos ceiling
boards was stacked in the open building without being wrapped or sealed to
prevent the spread of asbestos fibres. Alan Burdett had been filmed allowing
workers to enter the asbestos enclosure without any face masks or protective
clothing to prevent them being exposed to asbestos, as well as potentially
releasing the deadly fibres into the main building where there were no controls
to prevent exposure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alan Burdett of Mason Road,
Erdington, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates Court to breaching Section
7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was sentenced to 6 months
imprisonment which was suspended for 18 months, fined £1,500.00 and was ordered
to pay costs of £3,518.13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Matt Greenly said
after the case: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Alan Burdett totally failed in
his duty to protect himself and his workers from a foreseeable risk of serious
harm from asbestos fibres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Although he was qualified and
experienced he chose to completely ignore the risks from asbestos and in doing
so has exposed several people to a risk of developing a deadly disease at some
point in the future. As an asbestos supervisor he was in a trusted position and
he has abused this trust.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employee prosecuted for dangerous work at height<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An employee of a steel erection
firm has been sentenced at Manchester Magistrates Court after admitted working
unsafely at height on a hotel development in central Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Magistrates Court
heard that on the 21 January 2015 a member of public contacted HSE claiming
that a man had been seen balancing on scaffold tubes in the rain while working
on the roof of the multi-storey hotel. HSE Inspectors found David Mulholland working
on the roof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found it was David Mulholland in the photograph provided
to HSE. He had climbed up the scaffold to hammer the steel beams into place and
had not used the tower scaffold that had been made available for him. There was
also a full time scaffolder on site available for any of the contractors to
utilise to ensure safe working platforms were in place.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David Mulholland, Victoria
Road, Walton le Dale, Preston, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 7 of the
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was sentenced to 6 months
imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, fined £1,400.00 and was ordered to pay
costs of £2,939.18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Matt Greenly said
after the case:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case dealt with a serious
work at height risk which could have led to a fatal incident. David Mulholland
failed in his duty to protect his own safety while at work and also placed
others at risk had he dropped any tool from the position he was seen in some 27
metres above street level. During HSE’s investigation he said that he did not
appreciate how high he was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Never before in my career as an
HSE Inspector have I seen such a staggering disregard for personal safety. It
is a matter of pure luck that no-one was injured or killed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My thanks go to the member of
the public who reported their concern to us as they have been instrumental in
saving the life of Mr Mulholland and arguably anyone below him at that time.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">National airline prosecuted for not protecting workers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">British Airways PLC has been
prosecuted for not protecting their workers from hand/arm vibrations.</span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Paisley Sheriff’s Court heard
how employees working within the composite workshop at the Glasgow base, who in
the course of their work used hand held power tools to carry out repairs on
various components, were exposed to the risk of Hand/Arm Vibration (HAV), a
condition that can cause symptoms such as tingling, pins and needles, numbness
and pain in the affected person’s hands.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The condition can affect sleep
when it occurs at night and cause difficulties in gripping and holding things,
particularly small items such as screws, doing up buttons, writing and driving.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) highlighted the company’s failure to make a suitable
and sufficient risk assessment to control the effect of exposure by workers to
the vibrations from hand held tools. Potentially this exposed the work force to
the risk of injury whilst working within the workshops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">British Airways PLC, Waterside,
Harmondsworth, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 5 (1) of the Control of
Vibration at Work Regulations (2005) and was fined £6,500.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Essex companies fined after workers exposed to asbestos<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two Essex-based companies have
been fined after exposing workers to potentially deadly asbestos over a period
of years, despite being alerted to the risks at their premises.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Basildon Crown Court heard that
asbestos was found in poor condition when Connect Packaging Ltd moved into
industrial units in Manor Road Trading Estate, Benfleet in 2007, but that it
failed to act to control risk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
result, its employees were exposed to risk from airborne asbestos fibres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When Connect Packaging Ltd
moved out of the units in January 2009, it sublet them to Creo Retail Marketing
Ltd, another company within its group, but continued to exercise some control
over maintenance and repair work at the premises.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In 2014, Creo Retail Marketing
Ltd undertook its own asbestos survey following the appointment of a new health
and safety officer. This confirmed continuing risk of exposure to airborne
asbestos fibres from sources including poorly-enscapsulated blue asbestos
(crocidolite).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Despite this, workers remained
exposed to these risks while the companies debated their responsibility for its
removal and failed to act effectively to prevent exposure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) launched an investigation and its scientists found asbestos fibres at
locations including the workers’ clocking-in point, on rafters above work
areas, and within a stationery cupboard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When asbestos fibres become
airborne, they can be inhaled, and these tiny fibres are known to cause
respiratory diseases and cancers which can be fatal. The court heard that
workers at both companies were exposed to risk over an extended period of time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Connect Packaging Ltd,
registered at 91 Soho Hill, Birmingham was fined £65,000 and ordered to pay
£8,150.23 in costs after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 4 of the Health
and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Creo Retail Marketing Ltd,
registered at 350 Euston Road, London, was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay
£8,149.63 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of Sections 2 and 3 of the
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
Inspector Nikki Hughes said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Connect Packaging Ltd is now under
new ownership but while it held the tenants- repairing-lease on the rented
units it had a legal duty to manage asbestos within these non-domestic
premises, as did its sub-tenant, Creo Retail Marketing Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After this asbestos was
identified, both companies should have acted promptly and effectively to
control the potentially lethal risk to which their workers were exposed.
Asbestos-related disease has a long latency period, so we cannot predict the
consequences this failure to manage asbestos may have on their workers’ health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This prosecution should act as
a reminder to all persons in control of the repair and maintenance of
non-domestic premises of the need to ensure that the correct control measures
are put in place to prevent exposure to asbestos, so far as is reasonably
practicable.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dairy Manufacturer fined after worker’s fragile roof fall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A dairy manufacturer has been
fined £400,000 after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell 15
feet through a fragile roof panel.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Muller UK and Ireland Group
LLP, was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court, after an investigation by
the Health and safety Executive (HSE).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Court heard that on the 8<sup>th</sup>
July 2015, a worker was carrying out a routine job with two
colleagues to change the refrigeration gas of the chilled storage units at the
firm’s premises on Lake Road, Trafford Park. They were working in the roof void
of the chilled store building above the chilled units. One of the workers
stood on a fragile fire board panel at the edge of the roof space and fell down
the void between the chilled unit and the building shell. He suffered injuries
to his head and body.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE’s investigation found that
the workers had not been given any information from the company about the
fragile roof panels in the void, despite having worked there on a number
of previous occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The company had failed to carry
out an adequate risk assessment prior to permitting access to the area and
failed to share information about the presence of the fragile panels prior to
the work being undertaken. The fragile panels were not clearly visible, had no
warning markings and there were no barriers to prevent access to fragile areas.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Jane Carroll said
after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case highlights how
important it is that a suitable and sufficient risk assessment is undertaken
for all work at height and work within roof voids, to identify the potential
for fragile panels to be present. Falls from height through fragile roofs
remain a common cause of life changing or fatal injuries for individuals at
work”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Muller UK and Ireland Group
LLP, of Tern Valley Business Park, Shrewsbury Road, Market
Drayton, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety
at Work, etc. Act 1974 and was fined £400,000 with £9,336.90 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Housing association prosecuted for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A housing association has been
prosecuted after allowing renovations to take place that put residents at risk
of carbon monoxide poisoning.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dumfries Sheriff Court heard
that Dumfries & Galloway Housing Partnership Limited, Scotland’s second
largest registered social landlord, had allowed chimneys to be removed from
properties on two separate occasions. It was later discovered during the annual
gas checks that the chimneys acted as the necessary gas flue for adjacent
properties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE’s investigation into both
incidents revealed that, at the time the chimney removals took place, not only
was there was no procedure in place for the Company’s workers to follow in
respect of this type of work, neither were any risk assessments carried out in
relation to the chimney removals which would have identified the risk to carbon
monoxide poisoning for the residents.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dumfries & Galloway Housing
Partnership Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and
Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was fined £8,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Around seven people die each
year from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by gas appliances and flues that
have not been properly installed, maintained or that are poorly ventilated.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bolton resident dies in lift shaft fall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A property management company
has been fined after a resident of Marsden House in Bolton died
after falling down a lift shaft.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bolton
Crown Court heard how 29 year old Craig Jones and a friend were
trapped in a lift and unable to raise the alarm. They attempted a self-rescue
by forcing the doors open and sliding out onto the floor below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Craig Jones slipped under the
lift car and fell five stories down the lift shaft and died of multiple
injuries. His friend escaped unhurt.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which
occurred on 30 August
2014 found that Warwick Estates Property Management Limited
(the management company for the building) failed to take suitable and sufficient
steps to prevent Craig and his friend self-rescuing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Warwick Estates Property
Management Limited, of Edinburgh Way, Harlow,
Essex, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and
Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and was fined £120,000 and
ordered to pay costs of £45,000.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
inspector Sarah Taylor said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Those who manage lifts have a
responsibility to ensure they are properly maintained but if people are trapped
they have a way to raise the alarm and are not in a position to try and rescue
themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problems with this lift
were well known and if Warwick Estates Property Management Ltd had fulfilled
their health and safety responsibilities Craig Jones would probably be around
to celebrate Christmas with his family.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution announcement<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has informed BAM Nuttall Limited, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Ltd, and Keir
Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd that they will be prosecuted in relation to
three incidents that took place during the construction of the new Crossrail
railway tunnel construction, which runs east to west across London.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All three companies will appear
at Westminster Magistrates Court in January 2017 to face four charges each: two
relating to the death of Rene Tka’cik on the 7 March 2014 and one each relating
to injuries to Terrence Hughes on the 16 January and Alex Vizitiu on 22 January
2015.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rene Tka’cik died after he was
crushed by falling concrete on the 7 March 2014 while working on the Fisher Street
cross-over tunnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Terrance ‘Ian’ Hughes was
working between the Bond Street and Paddington section of the tunnel on the 16
January 2015 when he was crushed by a tipper truck. He suffered severe leg
injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alex Vizitiu was working in the
same stretch of the tunnel on 22 January 2015. He suffered head and hip
injuries when he was struck by a high pressure mixture of water and concrete
during a routine operation to clean concrete lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE’s Head of Operations,
Annette Hall said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We have informed the three
contractors that they will each be prosecuted for the death of a worker and
injuries sustained by two others, in three separate incidents on the
construction project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were all
serious incidents and resulted in the death of one of their workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have concluded following thorough
investigations that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute and it is in the
public interest to do so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BAM Nuttall Limited of St James
House, Knoll Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3XW, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Ltd of
10<sup>th</sup> Floor, BSI Building, 389 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 4AL and
Keir Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd of Tempsford Hall, Sandy, Bedfordshire,
SG19 2BD will each face four charges:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One charge under section 2 of
the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">One charge under section 3 of
the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two charges under Regulation 22
(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Volvo sentenced for worker fall<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The national truck, bus and
plant division of Volvo has been fined £900,000 after one of their workers fell
and suffered head injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Westminster Magistrates’ Court
heard how a worker was servicing a large delivery truck and repairing the
driver’s access rope for the cab when he fell, striking his head and losing
consciousness. He was placed in a medically induced coma for two weeks. He
still suffers from ongoing complications and has been unable to return to work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found the step ladder that the worker was using was
damaged and its anti-slip feet were worn. It was not Volvo property and had not
been maintained or checked to ensure it was suitable for use. At the time of
the incident, </span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17 September 2015, Volvo UK had not trained their staff to
select, inspect and use access equipment for work at height.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Volvo Group UK Limited,
Wedgnock Lane, Warwick, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974 and was fined £900,000 and ordered to pay costs of
£5820.28, with a £150 victim surcharge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Nick Wright said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This worker suffered life
changing injuries that could have been prevented by simple health and safety
precautions. For two weeks his family was told to prepare for the worst as he
was placed in an induced coma to help manage the swelling on his brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This case is not about banning
ladders, on many occasions they are the right equipment to use when working at
height; it is about companies ensuring they properly maintain their work at
height equipment and train their workers on how to inspect them and select the
correct tools for the job. As this case shows, even a fall from a relatively
small height can have devastating consequences.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company and Director fined after Multiple Safety Failings on
Construction Site<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A construction company and its
Managing Director have been prosecuted for operating an unsafe construction
site during the conversion of a building in Bollington.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester and Salford
Magistrates’ Court heard how the conditions on the site, where a former pub was
being changed into two houses, were so poor it prompted a member of public to
complain to the local authority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) inspected the site and had to stop all the work on the building as the
conditions were so dangerous and putting workers lives at immediate risk. In
total HSE inspectors served three prohibition notices and two improvement
notices for safety failings that ranged from work at height issues, missing
floorings with no protection and health failings including the provision of
welfare facilities with running water.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE’s inspection also found an
extremely unsafe wall on the property that had not been sufficiently supported
to prevent it from collapsing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found
that both the company and its director did not put in place effective health
and safety management at the start of the conversion. They failed to notify HSE
of the project, appoint a competent principal contractor or ensure they had
suitable and sufficient measures to reduce risks to workers and members of the
public.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bluefig Development Ltd, of
Dale House, 35 Dale Street, Manchester pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3 of
the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and Regulation 22(1)(c) of the
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, and was fined £42,900
with £3,781.24 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company Director Faris Mousa
pleaded guilty to breaching two charges under Section 37 of the Health and
Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was fined £40,000 with £3,658.24 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Deborah Walker
said after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Bluefig Development Ltd and Mr
Faris Mousa completely failed in their duties to protect the workers or members
of the public from harm. This was an extremely dangerous site and it is only
luck that nobody was injured or even killed. Anyone involved in
construction, no matter what size of site or project has to take the health,
safety and welfare of their workers seriously. If the unstable wall had
collapsed we could now be talking about the tragic death of a worker and its
impact on their family rather than how lucky they are no-one was injured.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company fined after young worker injured<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A waste management company has
been prosecuted after a worker was left with life changing injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Chippenham Magistrates Court
heard how the 19-year-old worker and his colleagues had cleared a blockage from
the waste picking line, when his gloved hand got caught in the conveyor belt.
The roller fractured his right hand, dislocated his wrist and radius and he had
to spend two weeks in hospital following the incident.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that there was no effective guarding around the
conveyor belt to prevent workers hands being caught up in the mechanism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">MJ Church (Plant) Ltd, Star
Farm, Marshfield, Chippenham pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 11(1) of
the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and were fined £20,000
and ordered to pay costs of £1,549.53 and a victim surcharge of £170.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Inspector Tania Nickson,
said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“A young worker’s life was
changed forever because a company failed to ensure there was the correct
guarding in place on a conveyor belt. A year after the incident he still
requires medical treatment and is unlikely to gain full use of his right hand.
All companies that work with dangerous machinery can learn from this case –
straightforward precautions protect workers safety.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employee Seriously Injured after Fork Lift Truck Overturns</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A construction company has been
fined after a 58 year old worker suffered serious injuries when the fork lift
truck and attached man-riding cage that he was working from overturned and he
fell to the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Worsley Projects Limited
trading as Egan Projects, had been employed by Edmundson Electrical to carry
out refurbishment work on a new unit that they had leased. This included
installing new IT cabling between the new unit and the existing building.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Magistrates’ Court
heard that on 23 June 2015, the new cabling was being attached to existing
cabling approximately 7 metres above road surface, with plastic cable ties. The
work was nearly complete when the fork lift truck and man-riding cage
overturned in an area where the road was sloped. The employee grabbed the
existing cabling as the overturn occurred but then fell to the floor and
suffered serious injuries to his pelvis, vertebrae and right hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found
Worsley Projects Limited trading as Egan Projects had produced a risk
assessment and method statement and decided that the work be carried out using
a fork lift truck and attached man-riding cage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The incident could have been
prevented by provision of more suitable equipment to avoid working on the
sloping road surface.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector David Norton said
after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Falls from height are still
the most common cause of serious accidents in the workplace in the UK and many
could have been prevented if the correct equipment had been selected and used.
This is the situation in this case a cherry picker type Mobile Elevating
Working Platform (MEWP) could have avoided the sloped road surface where the
incident occurred.’’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Worsley Projects Limited
trading as Egan Projects, of 19 Green Lane, Eccles was found guilty of
breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Working at Height Regulations 2005 and was
fined £10,000 with £1,194.35 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construction companies fined after failing to carry out basement
excavation work safely<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two London based construction
companies were prosecuted after a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection
identified serious safety breaches on a double basement construction project.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Westminster Magistrates’ Court
heard that emergency services had been called to a property at Bathurst Mews,
London, where excavation work to form a double basement was being carried
out. They rescued a labourer with a broken arm and reported their
concerns about the dangerous site to the Health and safety Executive (HSE).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE inspection found,
despite the incident, workers were at risk from falling into deep excavations
and there were no propping arrangements to ensure the stability of excavations
or the existing building. The inspector immediately shut down the site. The
investigation by HSE found that an independent consultant had raised the same
concerns a few months previously but the recommendations had been ignored.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Principal Contractor
Lifehouse (London) Ltd appointed Nu Space Design Ltd as the contractor to carry
out the excavation work and one of its directors as the site manager.
Neither company appointed a competent person to inspect the excavations
to ensure they were safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lifehouse (London) Ltd of 28
Church Road, Stanmore, HA7 4XR pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 13(1) of
the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) and was fined
£24,000 and ordered to pay £1,141.50 in costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nu Space (Design) Ltd of 39
Wimborne Avenue, Hayes, UB4 0HQ pleaded guilty to breaching CDM Regulation
15(2) and was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £1,067.10 in costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Andrew
Verrall-Withers commented after the hearing:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Both companies were aware of
the dangers on the site following the warnings in a consultant’s report, but
they failed to act on the recommendations and a worker was injured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">When carrying out any
construction work, whether new build or refurbishments you have to ensure it is
done safely. In this case they should have appointed a competent person to
carry out regular inspections of the excavations to ensure they did not
collapse onto workers or cause the building to become unstable during the
work”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Prosecution of local roofing specialist company and its
directors over unsafe roof work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A specialist roofing company
and its two directors have been sentenced after admitting working unsafely at
height on a hotel development in central Manchester during a major
refurbishment and extension works.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On the 17 March 2015, a member
of public witnessed and photographed unsafe work at a construction site and
contacted the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Magistrates’ Court
heard that the photograph showed Mr Jake Clarke, one of a pair of directors for
Enviroply Roofing Limited. His fellow director, Mr Aaron Hepworth was also
witnessed walking along the beam to pass something to Mr Clarke, then walking
back again. There was nothing in place to prevent or mitigate a fall from this
beam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation
discovered that there was a full time scaffolder on site who was employed to
build any scaffolding required by contractors but on this occasion, Enviroply
and its directors had chosen to rush the job in order to submit their invoice
earlier. Mr Clarke and Mr Hepworth put their lives at risk as the fall would
have been one storey and onto timber beams.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All three defendants failed to
take the proper precautions to manage the risk of a significant fall from
height, despite there being adequate provision on site to provide them with
scaffolding and safe working platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enviroply Roofing Limited of
Unit 20b, Yarrow Business Centre, Yarrow Rd, Chorley, pleaded guilty at
Manchester Magistrates Court to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height
Regulations 2005 and were fined £13,300 with £1160.50 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jake Joseph Clarke of Crown
Street, Leyland, Preston pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates Court to
breaching Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and was
fined £1100 with £1160.50 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Aaron Paul Hepworth of 1
Appleyard, Prestolee Road, Radcliffe pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates
Court to breaching Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
and was fined £2100 with £1160.50 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Matt Greenly said
after the case: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Enviroply Roofing Limited had
a duty to protect any employees, even the directors, from a risk of a fall from
height.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mr Clarke and Mr Hepworth, in
their position as directors, recognised that their choices on that day placed
themselves at a serious risk of death or life changing injury and admitted as
much for themselves and their Company. They only realised afterwards that
running those risks in order to submit an invoice early was very unnecessary,
considering how serious the consequences could have been.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is pure luck that no-one was
injured or killed. I would like to thank the people who reported these concerns
to us as they have been instrumental in saving the lives of these men. It is
hoped that other construction workers will see these cases as a warning that
HSE will act robustly to concerns received and perhaps they will take a little
more time to protect themselves on their next site.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>A builder from Surrey has been
prosecuted for the fall of a worker</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Redhill Magistrates heard how
the worker fell 3.2 m through an opening in a roof onto a concrete floor. He
survived the fall but was left with broken ribs, swelling to his brain and
nerve damage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation found that he
was part of the team building an extension to a house. They had been working on
the roof, adjacent to an opening created previously, but as it had begun to
rain they wanted to cover the exposed parts with plastic sheeting and
tarpaulins. The opening, which was approximately 2 metres by 1.5 metres had no
measures to prevent persons falling, or mitigate the consequences of any fall.
The worker stepped backwards into the opening and fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Frank Gaskin, a self-employed
builder who trades under the name of FG Blockplan from Coldstream Road,
Caterham, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6 (3) of the Work at Height
Regulations 2005. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fined £2,400
and ordered to pay costs of £2,935.42 with a victim surcharge of £120.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></a><span style="color: #002060;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Health and Safety Myths Buster<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hanging your Christmas Decorations?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A city council has banned its
staff from putting up Christmas decorations on their office walls because it
"breaches health and safety guidelines".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bosses at Bradford City
Council, in West Yorkshire, have called bah humbug on its employees' festive
cheer and outlawed the sticking, pinning or nailing decorations to council
buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">They were also warned any
festive lights would have to be certified 'low energy' or be torn down.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Advice from HSE is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“There
are no health and safety laws preventing the hanging of Xmas decorations
despite what many festive tabloid writers may otherwise claim.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Source:
<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Health and Safety in the news this
week<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Costa Coffee outlets refuse to give mum hot water to warm baby’s
bottle – for health and safety reasons<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Costa Coffee has apologised to
a new mum after staff at four cafes refused to give her hot water to warm her
baby’s milk – for “health and safety reasons”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tessa Lake was at an outdoor shopping centre when she went into
one branch and asked for a cup of hot water to warm up a bottle for her 3-month
old baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was left fuming when staff
at the outlet on Swindon’s Greenbridge Retail Park refused on safety grounds,
despite serving hot drinks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Costa apologised when she complained and bosses said they would
reissue their policy telling staff they should give mums free hot water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tessa says she has since visited three other
local Costa cafes and they have all refused to give her hot water too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“To begin with I only emailed their head office to complain
because I was a bit cross about it and then it became a bit of a sticking point
for me that they hadn’t sorted it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
haven’t had any problems before now and every other place we’ve been has been
incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it first happened, I assumed
the staff had to be wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They refused
to give me hot water on health and safety grounds, but will happily sell piping
hot drinks, which is just ridiculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They kept saying it over and over and so it seems to them that
apparently a cup of tea is not a health and safety risk, yet a cup of hot water
is.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Costa apologised and said it would be re-issuing guidelines to
staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.metro.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Keeping staff safe this festive
season: drugs and alcohol</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It’s
the time of year when many business owners focus their health and
safety legal responsibilities on clearing ice and snow and ensuring
employees are wearing the correct PPE for low temperatures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the festive season presents a whole
new range of risks for employers, in particular through the possible increase
in drug and alcohol use. Here, John Southalls, co-founder at </span><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.southalls.com/"><span style="color: #002060; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Southalls</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, explores
how duty holders can safely ensure their employees aren’t working whilst under
the influence.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Up to 17 million working days
are lost each year due to alcohol consumption, costing the UK economy over <a href="http://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/Factsheets/Alcohol%20in%20the%20workplace%20factsheet%20March%202014.pdf"><span style="color: #002060;">£7.3 billion</span></a> in lost productivity. An employee
coming into work visibly tired and faintly smelling of alcohol may not raise
much cause for concern, especially after a work Christmas party. However,
employees working whilst under the influence of alcohol and drugs, even if it
is from the night before, present significant safety risks for not only the
employee themselves, but for colleagues and customers also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Increased rates of sickness
absence, reduced productivity and increases in accidents are just three of the
main causes of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace. While a third of
employees have admitted being at work while hungover, this possibility
increases significantly over the Christmas period due to increases in social
activities including work nights out and family parties.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act
states that it is an offence for employers to permit the production, supply or
use of controlled substances within the workplace. If an employer knowingly
allows drug related activities to take place on their premises and fails to
take appropriate action, they could be breaking the law and be prosecuted by
the HSE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The 1988 Road Traffic Act and
1992 Transport and Works Act both also state that drivers must not be under the
influence of drugs when operating a vehicle. So how can business owners
successfully fulfil their duty of care to ensure all reasonable steps have been
taken to protect employees against the potential risks associated with alcohol
and drug use?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Substance misuse policy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The first step business owners can
take is by creating a substance misuse policy. The policy should:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be
created in consultation with employees, aiming to support those who may be
abusing alcohol and drugs, rather than punish them.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Outline
that being at work under the influence of alcohol or drugs is against
their contract of employment and can result in immediate dismissal or
suspension.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">State
that any employee found on the premises in possession of, or dealing
drugs, will immediately be reported to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide
contact information for relevant support groups that will be able to help
employees if they have an addiction to either alcohol or drugs.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide Open Channels of Communication<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<br />
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Encourage
employees to admit their problem to a chosen manager or supervisor, making
them aware of the problem as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Enter
into dialogue with employees coming forward, to assist them in getting the
necessary support.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Drug and alcohol screening<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As part of the substance misuse
policy, employers can include screening and testing as a way of effectively
controlling any potential risks caused by drug and alcohol use. Employers must:</span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Get
employees to agree to the principle of screening in their contract of
employment, making them aware that either random or schedule screenings
may take place at any time.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #002060; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gain
written consent from each employee, documenting they are willing to
consent to each specific test that will be conducted. If both a drug and
alcohol screening is to take place, employees must provide written consent
for each individual test before they can begin.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At all times, and throughout
the festive period especially, business owners must exercise due diligence to
avoid employees and contractors from being unfit to work due to alcohol and
drug abuse. By being proactive in their approach, business owners can ensure
that all potential risks have been minimised and constant compliance with legal
legislations has been achieved.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: <a href="http://www.shponline.co.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.shponline.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Real Estate Company fined for safety failings<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A real estate company in
Oxfordshire has been fined for failing to manage asbestos on their premises
following a fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reading Crown Court heard how a
fire occurred at Faringdon Business Park on 26 July 2014 destroying four units
on the site.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tapecrown Limited failed to
have a suitable plan and risk assessment in place for the safe management of
asbestos containing materials on their premises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tapecrown Limited, of Market
Place, Wantage, Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(3) of the
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, and was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay
costs of £4,000.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Sharron Cripps
said:</span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It is important for all duty holders to manage asbestos on
their premises. To do this the dutyholder needs to identify asbestos containing
material (ACM), determine where it is located, what condition it is in and what
measures should be taken to manage the risk associated with asbestos.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Worker suffers facial injury
from crowbar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A construction company from
Northallerton has been fined after a worker suffered facial injury from a
crowbar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Durham Crown Court heard how
Walter Thompson (Contractors) Limited (WTL) was Principal Contractor for the 47
bedroom extension of the Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham. During the installation of
concrete floor slabs a worker was struck in the jaw by a crowbar when it became
trapped between two of the slabs. He suffered a head injury, including
lacerations to the head and jaw and dislocated teeth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident, which occurred on 15 December
2014, found that WTL failed to adequately plan and manage the installation of
the two floor slabs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Walter Thompson (Contractors)
Limited, of Construction House, Northallerton, pleaded guilty to breaching
Regulation 22(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
2007 and was fined £33,000 with £12,552.81 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Company fined after teenage work experience person injured<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A supplier of industrial
equipment based in Newcastle has been fined after a work experience person was
injured.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Stafford Crown Court heard how
during the unloading of a heavy electrical panel from the back of a lorry at
Radwell International Limited, the injured teenager was asked to steady the
panel which had been placed onto a wooden pallet on the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The panel fell trapping him on
the ground across the forks of the forklift truck. He suffered five compression
fractures of his pelvis, and a head injury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which occurred on 15 December 2014
found the company failed to carry out suitable and sufficient risk ssessment,
training, supervision and communication.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Radwell International Limited,
of Dalewood Road, Lymedale Business Park, Newcastle under Lyme, Newcastle,
pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work
etc Act 1974, and was fined £86.666 and ordered to pay costs of £12,143.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing HSE inspector
Steve Shaw said: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case highlights the need
for companies to have in place safe systems of work for all deliveries at their
premises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had such a system been in place,
this teenager starting his working career need not have suffered the painful
injuries he endured and this company would not have faced the judgement of the
courts.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE prosecution round up:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Builder handed suspended prison sentence and community service
following unsafe gas work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A builder has been sentenced to
250 hours of community service for putting a home owner at risk following
renovations to their house in Cardiff.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cardiff Crown Court heard that
Brian James was hired to carry out renovations to a bungalow in Cardiff
specifically to install new plumbing and heating, including a boiler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brian James admitted in court
that although he did not carry out the work himself he employed a man he had
never met before to carry out the work. He did not check that he was
sufficiently competent, qualified or a Gas Safe registered engineer. He took
his details from a board at a DIY store and could not provide further details
to the Health and Safety Executive, who investigated the incident. The boiler
had not been fitted with a thermostat and was not commissioned by a registered
engineer.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Simon Breen said:
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“It is essential for public
safety that gas appliances are only fitted by competent, qualified and
registered engineers. Anyone who is carrying out renovations to properties needs
to make sure they properly check anyone they bring in to carry out gas work so
people’s lives are not put at risk.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brian James of Llandudno Road,
Rumney, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to breaches of Section 3(2) of the Health and
Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
sentenced to a 32 week prison sentence, suspended for two years, 250 hours
community service, fined £636 and ordered to pay costs of £5,344.29.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employee dies after collapse of waste material covers him<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Kent-based waste and
recycling company has been fined after an employee died when wasted material
collapsed on top of him.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maidstone Crown Court heard how
Neville Watson, aged 39 and a father of two, was working close to the pile of
waste material after connecting a shredder to the loading shovel he was
driving. He died of asphyxiation whilst under the pile of waste that appeared
to be over eight metres high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive into the incident, which occurred on 9 August 2014, found
that New Earth Solutions Group Limited, failed to undertake and prepare risk
assessments or safe systems of work for the creation and management of the
stockpiles, or adequate training.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">New Earth Solutions Group
Limited, of Black Moor Road, Verwood, Dorset, pleaded guilty to breaching
Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was fined
£80,000 and ordered to pay costs of £38,373.92. The judge indicated that if the
company had not been in administration, the fine would have been between
£600,000 and £1.3million.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Guy Widdowson
said after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The request for Mr Watson to
carry out the shredding operation was made without any form of structured
training being in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The company
failed to ensure that Mr Watson was supervised by an employee trained in the
task he was carrying out, particularly in light of the fact that he had never
carried out the task before.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Window fitter in court after worker suffered fatal head injuries<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Southampton window
installation company has been fined after a worker suffered fatal head injuries
following a fall from a ladder.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brighton Magistrates Court
heard how Mark Taylor, 48, a window fitter from Southampton, was helping in the
installation of UPVC windows at a 3 storey house in Brighton on the 10
September 2014. He was working from an unsecured ladder when it slipped
sideways and he fell to the ground. The father of two was taken to hospital
suffering from head injuries but died the following day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
investigation found Kevin McLean, trading as South Coast Installations, failed
to ensure that the work at height was adequately planned and carried out in a
manner which was safe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kevin McLean, trading as South
Coast Installations, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 4(1) of the Work at
Height Regulations and was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £6,250.00 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Inspector Amanda Huff,
said: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Mark Taylor’s family have been
devastated because simple steps where not taken to secure the ladder he was
using. If Kevin McLean had ensured a proper risk assessment was carried out
this tragic incident could have been prevented.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three fined after man loses life due to fall through fragile
roof<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A company, its director, and a
self-employed contractor have been prosecuted by the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE), after Terry Lewis, a 65 year old retired mechanic, was fatally
injured by falling through a roof light.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Warrington Crown Court heard
how on 11 June 2013, Terry Lewis was working with his friend, Leigh Bakewell.
They were cleaning roof lights on the roof of a building at Radnor Park
Industrial Estate, Congleton. Mr Lewis fell approximately 7m through a
roof light to the workshop floor underneath, and subsequently died. Both
the roof and the roof lights were not able to support the weight of a person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found
that Leigh Bakewell, who primarily was a gardener and not a roofer, did not
take precautions to prevent a fall through the roof, nor off its edge. He did
not have the necessary knowledge or competence to carry out the work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roman Lodge Asset Management
Limited failed to have adequate systems in place to ensure a competent roofer
was appointed. Both the company and Jonathan Marshall failed to adequately plan
and supervise the work, due to their own lack of understanding of standards and
the law relating to work on fragile roofs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roman Lodge Asset Management
Ltd, of Dane Mill, Broadhurst Lane, Congleton, pleaded guilty to breaching
Regulation 4(1) and Regulation 5 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, and
were fined £20,000 with £8,010.00 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Its director, Jonathan Marshall
pleaded guilty to breaching two counts of Section 37 of the Health and Safety
at Work etc. Act 1974. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment on each
count (suspended for 12 months) and was ordered to pay £8,010.00 costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At a hearing on 18 August 2016,
Leigh Bakewell pleaded guilty to breaching section 3(2) of the Health and
Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment
(suspended for 12 months) and was ordered to pay £8,610.47 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Warren Pennington
said after the hearing: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This is an incredibly sad case
all round. Each defendant knew that the roof was fragile and each accepted
unsafe working practices. Terry Lewis was only on the roof in order to
help out his best friend. If Roman Lodge and Jonathan Marshall had asked
questions about Leigh Bakewell’s experience and knowledge of roof work
standards, they would not have employed him. Leigh Bakewell should have
recognised he was not competent and should not have carried out the work. With
these simple considerations, Mr Lewis would not have been on the roof and would
not have died in the way he did.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Four receive suspended jail sentences for health and safety
failings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The director of a Port Talbot
furniture factory and three of its managers have received suspended prison
sentences for ongoing health and safety failings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Swansea Crown Court heard how
the factory at Margam Hall Upholstery Limited in Henshaw Street, Port Talbot
was included in the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) programme of visits to
woodworking premises, which are considered a high risk industry because of
dangerous machines and hazardous substances including wood dust and glues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The visit highlighted a number
of health and safety concerns at the factory in early 2015 including poor
control of wood dust, no maintenance of work equipment including fume and dust
extraction, and noisy conditions. There were inadequate toilet and washing
facilities. Ten Improvement Notices were served on the company in February
2015, and despite ongoing intervention by the HSE, there was little progress
and conditions remained poor. Seven of the Improvement Notices were not
complied with.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
Inspector Helen Turner said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We always try to work with
dutyholders to help them understand their responsibilities and improve
conditions but there is no excuse for people running a business not to know
what health and safety standards apply to their work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When directors or managers who have the power
to make the improvements blatantly disregard their workers’ health and safety
we have no option but to prosecute.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Judge Geraint Walters said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The operation the four of you
were engaged in was nothing short of a ticking time bomb in relation to the
health and safety of employees.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The four defendants were
previously in charge of Celtic-Leather and Fabric Upholstery Ltd at the same
factory premises. This company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety
Executive in 2015 for similar health and safety breaches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Director Brian Baggs, of Mount
View Terrace, Port Talbot pleaded guilty to breaching Section 37 of the Health
and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and was given a 10 month prison sentence
suspended for 2 years and ordered to pay costs of £2,500. He was also
disqualified from acting as a Company Director for 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">David Lewis, a shareholder and
manager, of Manor Way, Briton Ferry pleaded guilty to breaching Section 37 of
the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and was given a 10 month prison
sentence suspended for 2 years and ordered to pay costs of £2,500. Although not
a current director, he was also disqualified from acting as a Company Director
for 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His brother Matthew Lewis, also
a shareholder and manager, of Ford Road, Velindre, Port Talbot, pleaded guilty
to breaching Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was
given a 10 month prison sentence suspended for 2 years and ordered to pay costs
of £2,500. Although not a current director, he was also disqualified from
acting as a Company Director for 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Michael Ball, a shareholder and
manager, of High Street, Ogmore Vale, Bridgend, pleaded guilty to breaching
Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and was given a 10
month prison sentence suspended for 2 years and ordered to pay costs of £2,500.
Although not a current director, he was also disqualified from acting as a Company
Director for 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An international engineering
company has been sentenced following the death of a worker who fell 30 feet
from an electricity pylon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Vincent John Richards, 49, from
Walsall was installing fall arrest lines for painters to use on the pylon at
Great Orton, Carlisle on the 5 July 2014 when the incident happened.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) investigated the incident and prosecuted Bilfinger Industrial Services
(UK) Limited for serious safety failings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Carlisle Crown Court heard that
Mr Richards, who was employed by the company as a “Rigger”, had been working
with a colleague preparing the pylons in readiness for painters to carry out
maintenance work. On the morning of the incident, Mr Richards arrived at pylon
FT37 and found that the painters had already commenced painting even though the
pylon had not been rigged. Mr Richards had climbed approximately 30ft up
the pylon, when he fell backwards, narrowly missing one of the painters working
directly below him. As a result of the fall, Mr Richards sustained serious
multiple injuries and died at the scene.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found a
number of failings by Bilfinger Industrial Services (UK) Limited in the
management of risks arising from work at height. Although the company had a
system of work they failed to implement, monitor and enforce this system. This
failing exposed their employees to the risk of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bilfinger Industrial Services
(UK) Limited of Tudor Road, Manor Park, Runcorn pleaded guilty to a breach of
Section 2 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined
£200.000 and ordered to pay costs of £59,320.10<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE Inspector
Susan Ritchie said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The Company were clearly aware
of the hazards involved with pylon work and had a system in place to manage the
risks. Unfortunately they failed to implement, monitor and enforce this system
of work. In addition they failed to ensure the proper inspection and provision
of safety critical personal protective equipment.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A maintenance company has
appeared in court after a worker suffered serious injuries after falling 7 metres.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The worker suffered fractures
to his left foot in the incident on the 9 July 2014.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The incident was investigated
by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which found serious safety failings by
Valmet Limited, an embedded contractor for the paper mill where the incident
occurred at Manchester Road, Carrington, Manchester.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manchester Crown Court heard
that the employee was carrying out maintenance work to a drive shaft which
involved tightening coupling bolts with a torque wrench. The wrench slipped off
the bolt head causing the worker to fall backwards off an unprotected edge
through a rubber flap into the paper pulping machine. This contained 2.5 metres
of water. After falling 7 metres in total he managed to swim, in darkness, to a
ledge at the side of the pulper and call for assistance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Before the incident Valmet Ltd,
the Finnish company which provided all the mill machinery, carried out a risk
assessment of the task but did not identify the fall from height risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The court also heard that
Valmet Ltd, previously known as Metso Ltd had recently been fined for their
involvement in a double fatality at another premises.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Valmet Ltd of Laneside Foundry,
Manchester Road, Rossendale, Lancashire pleaded guilty to breaches of Section
3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and was fined £120,000 and
ordered to pay costs of £8,591.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Speaking after the hearing HSE
Inspector Adam McMahon said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“A supervisor had to carry out
numerous risk assessments on the day of the incident along with covering others
duties. The hazard of working at height was not identified and as such a worker
was exposed to a serious risk which could have resulted in death. It was pure
luck that the pulper blades were not working or that the injured person did not
drown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Risk assessments are the
foundation for the effective control of risks. Time should be afforded to those
who are required to complete them to ensure the hazards are identified and
risks are controlled in order to safeguard workers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Worker injures hand on drill<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A company in Essex has been
fined after a worker suffered injury to his hand on a drilling machine.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Chelmsford Crown Court heard
how an employee of Amtek Aluminium Castings (Witham) Limited had been drilling
a hole in a casting when his glove got caught on the moving bit and his hand
was dragged into the drill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He suffered injuries to his
hand which required a skin graft and was off work for two months.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) into the incident which occurred on 16 December 2014
found that the machine was badly guarded and poorly maintained. The operator
was not properly trained or supervised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Amtek Aluminium Castings
(Witham) Limited, of Freebournes Road, Witham, Essex, pleaded guilty to
breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and was
fined £250,000 and ordered to pay costs of £12,632.92.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Council fined £250,000 for not protecting workers’ health<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanet District Council has
been fined after a worker was left with permanent injuries after being diagnosed
with hand arm vibration (HAV).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Canterbury Crown Court heard
how a worker from Thanet District Council was diagnosed with suffering from HAV
after visiting his GP. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Symptoms of the
condition can include tingling, pins and needles, numbness and pain in the
hands. This affects sleep when it occurs at night and sufferers have
difficulties in gripping and holding things, particularly small items such as
screws, doing up buttons, writing and driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive found that the worker would typically spend up to 6 hours
a day using a range of powered equipment including mowers and hedge cutters,
depending upon the season. He was not under any health surveillance or told how
he should report his symptoms.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The council had not taken steps
to eliminate or control the exposure of their workers to HAVs. They also failed
to educate their workers on the risk and train them on how to control their
exposure to the vibrations caused by the power tools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At the time of the investigation
the council were issued with an improvement notice, as soon as they started to
rectify the problem and implement the appropriate health surveillance a further
15 cases of ill-health relating to vibration exposure were identified and
reported to HSE.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanet District Council pleaded
guilty of breaching Regulations 6(2) and 7(1) of the Control of Vibration at
Work Regulations 2005, was fined a total of £250,000 and was ordered to pay
£18,325.84 in costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Principal Inspector Mike
Walters, said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Hand Arm Vibration is a
serious disease that impacts on people’s lives and impairs their ability to
work. It is entirely preventable but once the damage is done it is permanent.
Any business, council or employers can learn from this case. If you have workers
who use heavy machinery you need to ensure you properly manage the risks from
HAVs, control or eliminate the exposure, and train them so they can identify
the symptoms.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Construction Company fined after worker fell 6 metres<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Derbyshire based engineering
construction company has been prosecuted after a worker fell and suffered
severe injuries.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A worker was repairing a
fibreboard roof of a barn and using two homemade crawling boards when he fell 6
metres onto the floor below, sustaining serious injuries to his head, hip, and
lungs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Derby Magistrates Court heard
how at the time of the incident, 30 July 2014, he was working as part of a pair
to replace the roofing panels. One of his colleagues was under the roof in a
‘man basket’ that had been attached to a telehandler, when the incident happens
he had to climb down the boom of the machine to help the colleague.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found that there were not sufficient platforms or
coverings for the roof to protect workers from the fall. The risk assessment
and method statement, which would have told the workers how to run the work was
in the office but also not specific to the job. There were also no separate
controls for the man basket, leaving the worker stranded when his colleague
fell.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Allen and Hunt Construction
Engineers Ltd of Thorpe, Derbyshire, pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 4(1),
7 and 9 (2) of the Working at Height regulations, were fined a total of
£267,000 and ordered to pay costs of £7,750 and a victim surcharge of £120.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Self-employed builder electrocuted at work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A real estate lettings company
was sentenced today for safety breaches after a self-employed builder suffered
first and third degree burns to his face, hands, neck and chest.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The injured worker, 50 year old
Michael Phillips, suffered an electric shock in October 2015 when he was
carrying out work for IPH Investments Ltd at an address in Station Parade,
Harrogate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The premises were being
converted into a sunbed and beauty salon. The usual supply for most domestic
dwellings is 240v but because this supply was feeding both shop premises and
residential flats a larger supply was needed. (400v). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Company needed to carry out some
preparatory work before the new supply could be installed. This involved the
digging out of a small trench in the hallway of the site so that a new
electricity supply could be installed into the property.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Whilst digging the trench Mr
Phillips struck the existing live service cable with the small breaker he was
using.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) prosecuted the firm over the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">IPH Investments Ltd of Orchard
House, Haywra Street, Harrogate, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of
the Health and Safety at Work Act etc. 1974 and was fined £53<b>,</b>000.00
with £654.60 costs by Leeds Magistrates Court.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After the hearing, HSE
inspector Jayne Towey commented: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“This case was entirely
preventable if the company had carried out a suitable and sufficient risk
assessment before work began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
company could have used a cable avoidance tool (CAT) before any digging was
carried out. This would have helped to locate the buried electrical service.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Car component firm fined after multiple back injuries to workers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A car component manufacturer
has been sentenced after six workers experienced back injuries from repeatedly
lifting heavy car engine parts by hand.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">MAHLE Powertrain Limited
(MAHLE) manufactures engine parts for Audi and Jaguar Landrover cars which are
no longer in large scale production.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Birmingham Crown Court heard
that between 1 November 2013 and 7 January 2015, the HSE received six reports
of workers who had injured their backs and been off work for more than seven
days. One worker was in hospital for seven days and off work for more than nine
weeks. More workers suffered back problems but were not off work for the
seven days required for the incidents to be reportable.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found that workers who were based on two of the
company’s production lines were expected to manually lift engine components
weighing between 14 and 21kgs, hundreds of times during a shift. Mechanical
lifting aids were either not provided, not suitable, or no training had been
received by workers in how to operate them. There were no suitable or
sufficient manual handling assessments in place for the tasks involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">MAHLE Powertrain Limited of
Costin House, St James Mill Road, Northampton, admitted breaching Regulation
4(1)(b) of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992. It was fined
£183,340 and ordered to pay £21,277.10 costs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Inspector Elizabeth Hornsby
said: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Companies need to recognise
that manual handling is a high risk activity. It is equally important to get
health issues right, as well as safety. An Office of National Statistics report
on Sickness Absence in the Labour Market stated that 30.6 million days were
lost in 2013 due to musculoskeletal problems. This itself should highlight the
need for employers to get health issues right.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ejector seat manufacturer fined £800,000 for failing to protect
workers’ health<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An Uxbridge manufacturer of
ejector seats has been fined £800,000 after three workers developed
debilitating lung conditions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Three skilled CNC machine
operators developed Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis after many years of years of
exposure to the mist of working metal fluid. The lung condition, also known as
hypersensitivity pneumonitis, is a body’s allergic reaction to breathing in a
substance and symptoms include coughing, shortness of breath and joint pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Aylesbury Crown Court heard how
the workers, who had served with the company for more than 20 years, were
exposed to the working metal fluid mist over at least a three-year period. One
worker has been so severely affected they have become virtually paralysed by
the illness, another will never be able to work with metal working fluids
again, a key material in the industry. A third must have special measures in
place to ensure he never comes into contact with the substance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the measures in place within the factory
to stop the exposure to workers were inadequate. The fluid is commonly used as
a lubricant and coolant in engineering processes. During the process of using
the machines the fluid creates a mist, which in this case was breathed in by
around 60 workers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin Baker Aircraft Company
Limited failed to put in place a system of cleaning away the excess fluid or
providing extraction to prevent the build-up of the mist. There were also
failings in the provision of health surveillance, which should have identified
the issue early enough to ensure the Company were able to put in place and
monitor any appropriate safety measures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Martin Baker Aircraft Company
Limited, Lower Road, Higher Denham, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1)
of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (1974) and Regulation 6(1) of the
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended) (COSHH)
and were fined £ 800,000 and ordered to pay costs of £36,912.36.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE Inspector, Stephen
Faulkner, said <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Companies need to make sure
they consider workers’ health just as much as their safety when carrying out
risk assessments. The dangers of breathing in metal working fluid are well
known within the industry. In this case one worker has had his health
permanently and severely damaged, two others have also been affected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All will have to live with their condition for
the rest of their lives.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></span></a><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Key Health and Safety Statistics for Great
Britain (2015/16)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released the latest annual statistics on
illness and injury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Key figures are:-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">1.3 million</span></b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> working people suffering from a
work-related illness<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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asbestos exposures (2014)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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under RIDDOR<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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to the Labour Force Survey<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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work-related illness and workplace injury.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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cost of injuries and ill-health from current working conditions (2014/15)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The figures show that there has been
a fall of 85% in the number of workers killed at work since 1974, with
workplace injuries down by 1.3% overall since 2013/14 for absences of 7 days or
over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Injuries in construction and
manufacturing have both fallen, by 0.9% and 6.8% respectively compared to
2014/15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work-related illnesses have
increased overall by 18% since 2011, with an 11.7% increase in construction
compared with 2014/15, and 0.7% increase in manufacturing compared to 2014/15.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A worker died and two others
were badly injured at a construction site in Putney, when a temporary platform
collapsed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Southwark Crown Court heard
how, on 29 October 2012, a carpenter and a steel-fixer had been standing on a
temporary wooden platform above a stairwell opening on the 9<sup>th</sup> floor
of a construction site when the platform suddenly gave way beneath them. They
fell around sixteen metres down the opening. Both men landed on the
partly-constructed concrete staircase below, where the carpenter sadly
sustained fatal injuries. The steel-fixer survived the fall but was so
seriously injured that it took almost 3 years for him to recover sufficiently
to be able to return to work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An engineer’s assistant who was
working in the stairwell on a lower level was hit by falling debris and also
sustained serious injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An investigation by the Health
and Safety Executive (HSE) found that similar platforms had been constructed on
other floors throughout the construction site, by using timber joists supported
by unsuitable joist hangers with plywood fixed on top. The platforms, which
were part of ‘temporary works’ were neither built to an agreed safe design, nor
was the quality of the build checked by those in control of the site, even
though they were crucial to the safety of workers on upper floors.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Health & Safety, said </span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The risks of falling from height are well-known, and
the risk of joist hanger failure is well-documented. This tragic incident
illustrates what can happen if temporary works are not properly organised. All
those who have a role in planning and managing work on site must take
responsibility for ensuring that serious risks are properly controlled.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">St James Group Limited, of
Berkeley House, Portsmouth Road, Cobham, Surrey, the Principal Contractor,
pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 22(1)(a), Construction (Design and
Management) [CDM] Regulations 2007, and was fined £600,000 and ordered to pay
costs of £14,935.54.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mitchellson Formwork and Civil
Engineering Limited, of Mitchellson House, Horton Trading Estate, Horton,
Slough, Berkshire, the contractors responsible for constructing the platforms,
pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 13(2), of the Construction (Design and
Management) [CDM] Regulations 2007, and was fined £400,000 and ordered to pay
costs of £14,935.54.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">RGF Construction Limited, of
Howard Road, Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, a site agent who
assisted with managing the work, was found guilty at an earlier hearing on 4
July 2016 of breaching Regulations 13(2), and 28(2) of the Construction (Design
and Management) Regulations 2007. The company was fined £20,000.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Packaging firm fined over safety breaches<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A packaging company has been
fined after a worker’s thumb was severed due to the company’s failure to take
adequate measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jiffy Packaging Company
Limited, which produces packaging for the food industry and stationery
products, was found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court today after an
investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Court heard the worker
reached through an unguarded section in the frame of one of the machines to
clean ink from a roller. The rag he was using got caught in one of the
motorised cogs, causing his hand to be pulled into the rotating cogs. His left
thumb was severed, resulting in him receiving skin grafts in hospital and being
unable to work for 15 weeks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Although the company had
partially guarded the rollers and cogs of the machine with an interlocked
guard, they failed to take adequate measures to prevent access to all dangerous
parts of machinery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The HSE investigation found the
company’s risk assessment had been written nine years earlier by an employee
untrained in creating risk assessments. The assessment did not identify risks
related to unguarded machinery or any control measures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The court heard the company had
previously been served with several HSE Improvement Notices highlighting
machinery guarding issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jiffy Packaging Company Ltd, of
Road Four, Winsford, Cheshire was found guilty of breaching Section 2 (1) of
the Health and Safety at work etc Act 1974 and was fined £70,000 with full
costs of £53,509.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">HSE inspector Adam McMahon said
after the hearing: “The employee’s life changing injuries could have been
prevented if a suitable and sufficient risk assessment had been completed and
the correct control measures implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The day after the accident the
company carried out a new risk assessment of the machine guarded the area in
which the employee reached through with a clear plastic screen. The company
followed this up with a written safe system of work relating to cleaning the
rollers.’’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/"><span style="color: #2ba6cb;">www.hse.gov.uk</span></a><span style="color: #002060;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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