£2.4m in health and safety fines

Following on from the recent high fines reported in Facilities Management Legal Update (R -v- Dunlop, R -v- Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance Ltd, and R -v- Brintons Ltd) the courts have now imposed three heavy fines for health and safety offences in one week. Great Western Trains were fined £1.5m following the death of seven passengers in the rail accident at Southall in 1997. London Underground Limited were fined £300,000 following the death of a passenger at Eastcote Station in 1996, cause... (120 more words)

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