Working at height warnings following worker death

The HSE is highlighting the importance of carrying out risk assessments and implementing safe systems for working at height following the prosecution of a company and one of its employees after an incident in which a worker died.

Pervez Mohammed Iqbal, was ordered by Wolverhampton Crown Court to pay £15,000 in fines, with £2,800 costs after earlier pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

This case followed a Police and HSE joint inv... (270 more words)

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