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  1. Firm and individual fined

    The HSE is warning companies to be aware of the serious risks involved from contact with or working in close proximity to overhead power lines after the prosecution of a company and individual following an incident in which a worker died after being electrocuted. Lyons Landfill Ltd and Francis Michael Lyons (trading as Frank Lyons Plant Services) were both prosecuted following a joint investigation between the HSE and Hertfordshire Police into the death of self-employed lorr...

    Case | 8 Nov 2006

  2. Are Health and Safety Fines Too Low?

    ...001/02 to £8,828 in 2002/03. HSE Director General Timothy Walker is quoted as follows: "It is incomprehensible that fines for especially serious big company breaches in health and safety are only a small percentage of those fines handed down for breaches of financial services in similarly large firms. "I understand that financial service breaches can affect people's wealth and wellbeing, but breaches in health and safety can, and do, result in loss of limbs, livelihoods and lives." The HSE’s Offences and Penalties report provides details of enforcement action for 2002/03 and shows that...

    News | 14 Nov 2003

  3. Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?

    ...anging people's roles and responsibilities could increase the risk of injury if not properly managed. 30671 Safety consultants' register to launch A new national register of occupational safety consultants will be set up to help employers access `good quality, proportionate advice', the HSE has confirmed. The Occupational Safety Consultants Register (OSCR) will go live in January 2011. It will provide firms with details of consultants who have met the highest qualification standard of recognised professional bodies and who are bound by a code of conduct that requires them to only give advice that...

    Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010

  4. Companies fined after worker falls to his death

    ...t, which was built on a platform accessed via a ladder at the edge of a flat roof. The roof only had a low parapet, which was not high enough to prevent Mr. Cairns falling nine metres to the ground. HSE Inspector Sue Adsett, said: "This is a tragic case where both the failings of the construction firm and the architects led to Mr. Cairns' death. "While it is rare for designers to be charged with breaching health and safety legislation, they must be aware they can be held responsible where bad design is an important contributory factor to a work-place fatality. "Designers must ensure that plant...

    Case | 30 Jul 2010

  5. Director fined for neglecting legionella risk

    The managing director of a Black Country firm has been fined after being found to have neglected to control legionella at its site. Despite warnings from water treatment contractors, Ernest Jones of Coseley-based First Metal Finishers Ltd failed to put a management system in place for the control of legionella. Mr Jones of Rugeley, Staf...

    Case | 5 Feb 2010

  6. Clamping fines to be capped

     Motorists across England, Wales and Northern Ireland could soon challenge unfair practice by wheel clamping firms through independent tribunals, Home Office Minister, Alan Campbell, announced today. Members of the public who claim they have been unfairly clamped will be able to take their grievance to the independent tribunals.  Appeals will be heard by independent adjudicators, who will have the power ...

    News | 29 Jan 2010

  7. Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act

    ...Comment | Is modern technology making us ill? Members and affiliates share their thoughts and opinions ... Is modern technology making us ill? Ann Clarke, Claremont Group Interiors We are living in an `on-demand' culture in which information is at our fingertips. A study by Credant Technologies confirmed that we are a nation so obsessed with work that one-quarter of us will take our mobile devices to bed. More worrying still is the 8% of people who admitted to spending more time using their mobile devices during the evening than talking to their partners. So why should we cling on to the traditio...

    Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009

  8. Firms still unaware of Corporate Manslaughter implications

    ... most individual industries, except for manufacturing, engineering and utilities.   In launching the findings of the research CIEH Chief Executive, Graham Jukes, said:  “This poll research highlights the lack of awareness in most businesses of the effect that an accident at work may have on a firm’s ability to trade in the future. The HSE has just published its new strategy and business awareness of their responsibilities towards ensuring effective health and safety provision is at its heart. Business leaders must act proportionately but if they fail to properly resource health and safety ...

    News | 24 Jun 2009

  9. Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it

    ...pensation rather than just redundancy pay. The case is also one of the first to consider the application of Regulation 4(9), which deals with transfers that involve a substantial change in working conditions to the material detriment of an employee. Six employees of the Birkenhead office of one law firm, LLW, claimed that their contracts of employment had transferred pursuant to TUPE to Barnetts when Barnetts had won LLW's contract with a building society for the provision of conveyancing services to borrowers referred to them by the society. The employees had resigned on the basis that Barnetts ...

    Magazine issue | 5 May 2009

  10. Engineering firm fined following electrician's death

    A Scottish engineering firm has been fined £300,000 following the electrocution of an employee in 2005.Electrician Michael Adamson, 26, a qualified electrician, was working at the JJB Sports Centre and Retail Outlet, which was under construction at the Gallagher Retail Park in Dundee. He was installing cables, fixtures and f...

    Case | 24 Oct 2008

  11. Company fined

    A firm has been fined only £200 over the death of an employee, which was the result of “crucial failings” in risk assessments, because the company has gone into administration. Dean Thomas was crushed to death at the former RJ Crompton plant in Lydney, Gloucestershire, on 3 May 2003. Thomas was re-...

    News | 18 Sep 2006

  12. Are proposals to give penalties to firms breaching legislation a “backward step”?

    The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has called proposals to hand out penalties to firms in breach of regulations, a backward step. The Macrory Review, which ends its first consultation period on Friday (18 August), is looking into the reform of regulatory sanctioning regimes, with the final report expected later this year. As Workplace Law previously reported the Review’s inter...

    News | 17 Aug 2006

  13. Firm prosecuted for 10 breaches of construction safety law

    Bedfordshire firm Cowlgrove Ltd, trading as Cowlgrove Developers Ltd, was fined a total of £16,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,000 at Bedford Magistrates' Court after admitting ten breaches of health and safety regulations. The prosecution followed an investigation into unsafe ladder access and unsafe scaffol...

    Case | 2 Nov 2005

  14. Chemical firm fined £310,000 after cyanide release

    ... did not have the sentencing powers due to the serious and aggravating features, dishonesty and total lack of management control. The Environment Agency issued an enforcement notice on carbon-black manufacturer Sevalco Ltd in November 2002 following the admitted discovery of discrepancies in the firm’s environmental reporting. The firm is authorised by the Environment Agency to discharge low levels of cyanide into the estuary and a nearby surface water channel in its waste waters. A thorough and detailed investigation revealed a catalogue of inaccurate and falsified figures in the records ...

    Case | 10 Dec 2004

  15. Directors' responsibilities for health and safety

    ...y have. There are tests that will help you. The cost? You are looking at around £300 for starters. Should workplacelaw 13 POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT www.istockphoto.com How effective is the HSE's health and safety enforcement policy? Chris Streatfeild, health and safety advisor with commercial law firm , reports. Health and safety appears to be dominating almost every aspect of modern day business. In particular, the concerns over excessive `red tape' and `overregulation'. These and other concerns have also been highlighted in a recent report published by the Work and Pensions Select Committee. C...

    Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2005

  16. ICO issues fine over emails sent to wrong recipients

    ...orking for one of the council’s Adult Social Care Teams emailed a file containing sensitive personal information relating to 241 individuals’ physical and mental health to the wrong group email address. The group email address included a large number of transportation companies, including taxi firms, coach and mini bus hire services. The council attempted to recall the email, but was later unable to confirm that all the recipients had destroyed it. As the information was not encrypted or password-protected, it had the potential to be viewed by a significant number of unauthorised individuals....

    Case | 10 Jun 2011

  17. Proposed tribunal fines for employers raise concerns

    Businesses are concerned about the Government's proposal to introduce fines for employers found by an employment tribunal to have breached employment rights, according to a survey of over 600 employers by law firm Eversheds.    Under the proposals, in addition to any compensation awarded to the successful claimant an employer would have to pay a penalty to the Government of 50% of the value of the compensation. There would be a minimum penalty of £1,000 and a maximum of £5,000. Six in ten respondents b...

    News | 15 Apr 2011

  18. Hundreds "Named and Shamed" for Health and Safety Breaches

    ...n named and shamed for committing health and safety breaches. The HSE publication "Health and safety offences and penalties" lists 1,600 offences that were committed during 1999 / 2000. As well as big name companies, the list includes a number of universities, local authorities, hospitals and small firms that have been found guilty of health and safety breaches.In 1999/2000 the HSE prosecuted 1,133 cases, up nine per cent on the previous year. Only 72 of the charges resulted in verdicts of not guilty or not proven (a verdict available in Scotland). The HSE website ponders a database of the cases w...

    News | 30 Dec 2000

  19. Corus fined £240,000 after lorry driver crushed

    Multinational steelmaker, Corus, has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death at its site in Staffordshire. The firm...

    Case | 14 Apr 2010

  20. Tesco fined over pest problem

    ...he store and reported it in 2007. The court heard this week that Council officers investigated and found mouse droppings and food debris in many areas of the store. Tesco was found to have failed to ensure adequate procedures were in place to control pests and to ensure the premises were clean. The firm was fined £17,000 and ordered to pay £57,000 towards costs. The store was convicted of eight offences under the Food Hygiene Regulations between April and August 2007.  Councillor, Sherrie Green, said: "It is bad enough not to have had in place the basic safeguards that would have prevented rode...

    Case | 24 Feb 2010

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