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A company was fined £6,000 plus £600 costs after a member of staff was injured after falling from racking. The company had identified that climbing on racking was a hazard but controls had not been implemented. The company was prosecuted for not providing training to employees.
A company has been prosecuted for poor health and safety standards and for not reporting an accident. The company was fined £2,000 for failing to report an accident and £8,000 for poor standards. The council who took the prosecution was also awarded £7,821 in costs. An employee was injured when they fell from an old wooden ladder which had been repaired with parcel tape. The investigation found that plant and equipment had not been maintained, risk assessments were inadequate, advice had been ignored and there was no competent person responsible for health and safety.
A company has been fined £6,500 after a resident was scaled whilst being showered. The company had no temperature controls on the shower or effective prevention systems regarding the risk of scalding. There was also no risk assessment with regard to this. The company was prosecuted under Section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and Regulation 3 (1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Costs of £2,500 were awarded to the Council.
A Pub company has been fined £10,000, plus costs of £1,718 and compensation of £250 after a young person was scalded in a kitchen. The young person was ordered to empty a pan of boiling hot rice, which he did so into a bin liner which melted, he then slipped on the rice. The manager was not suitably trained and failed to provide adequate instruction, supervision or training to the young person.
A company has pleaded guilty to a charge under Regulation 11 (1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and a charge under Regulation 3 (1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations 1999. This was after an employee had to have their arm amputated after it was trapped in a dough milling machine. The interlock device was broken, allowing the rollers to run when the guard was raised. There was also no risk assessment completed for the use of the machine. The company was fined a total of £25,000 plus £3,514 costs.
A company had been fined £400,000 after a woman fell to her death from a third floor window in a hotel. Two screws were missing from the window restrictor. The company pleaded guilty to failing to have a risk assessment in place or providing adequate training of their staff. In previous weeks defective systems had been noted.
A national high street chain has been fined £5,000 plus £4,219 costs after being prosecuted under Section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and for failing to report an accident under RIDDOR. A member of staff accidentally soaked a contact lens in cleaning fluid rather than saline solution when a customer was having an eye examination. On placing the contact lens in the eye the customer suffered caustic burns to their cornea, they went on to make a full recovery.
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