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NHS Trust fined £45K For Failure to Manage Radioactive Substances
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has been fined a total of £45,000 at City of London Magistrates Court for breaches of health and safety at work legislation and of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. The Trust pleaded guilty to seven separate offences. On top of the fine, the Trust were also ordered to pay the full costs of £45,619. Investigations by the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency revealed a catalogue of failings in the management of a radioactive source, caesiu...
Case | 19 Apr 2004
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Ford Motor Company Fined £42K for Losing Radioactive Equipment
Essex-based Ford Motor Company Limited has been fined £42,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,995 following a prosecution by the Environment Agency Anglian Region under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. The company pleaded guilty to two offences relating to the loss of a radioactive source, a paint spray stat-attack gun containing polonium 210. The company also pleaded guilty to failing to report the loss of the radioactive source to either the Environment Agency or the Police and failing to t...
Case | 28 Mar 2003
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Company Fined for not Registering Radioactive Material, and then Losing it
... fined £3,000 by magistrates who heard how it failed to register radioactive material, some of which was later lost at its Salford premises. BBGR Limited makes lenses for spectacles and uses a radioactive source, polonium 210, on its production line. Such material should be registered under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993, but the fact that it was unregistered only came to light when a source went missing. Nick Webb, prosecuting for the Agency, told the Court that BBGR had taken over the Comus Street site from another company in July 2001. The previous occupier had been registered to hold radioactive sources, but...
Case | 27 Sep 2002
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New guidance on radioactively contaminated land
... the requirements of the regulatory system - and of recommendations from advisory bodies such as the National Radiological Protection Board. The remediation process will normally involve the disposal of any radioactive waste arising, which will require prior authorisation by the Agency under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. Guidance is given on the regulatory context for radioactively contaminated land and on interpretation of the Act. Remediation of radioactively contaminated land will take place for a variety of reasons, but is frequently driven by plans to sell and change the use of land. Planning authorities w...
News | 6 Jun 2002
