01 Jul 2021
A plumbing supply company and its building contractor have been fined after unsafe construction work took place at the company premises in Burnley. Burnley Magistrates' Court heard that on 21 October 2018, Northwest Plumbing Supplier Limited and contractor Daniel Georghiou, carried out…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A pub landlord has been handed a nine-year prison sentence for gross negligence manslaughter after a child was electrocuted in a beer garden. Harvey Tyrell, 7, died from an electric shock after he touched a defective lighting fixture at the King Harold pub in Romford, Essex, on 11 September 2018…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A manufacturing company has been fined after an apprentice's hand was caught in machinery. A 17-year-old apprentice, who had been working at Amber Industries Limited in Oldham for 18 months, was reaming workpieces using an unguarded pillar drill whilst wearing gloves. The glove on his right…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
Failing to adhere to health and safety standards can be a very costly mistake to make, as the owners of the Britannia Hotel in Southport recently found out. The hotel chain was fined £80,000 after a guest sustained life-changing injuries when she fell through rusty iron railings to a…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
What is needed to enable a defendant to successfully say that they relied on a dynamic risk assessment rather than to have specifically risk assessed every task? This question arose in two cases over the last 6 months that help identify the issues that need to be considered. The first is the…
Regulatory
28 May 2021
A Lancashire based manufacturer of plastic-coated fabrics has been fined after an employee's hand was drawn into an unguarded part of a machine, resulting in the surgical amputation of three fingers. Manchester Magistrates' Court heard that on 20 August 2019, a machine operator at the Earby…
Regulatory
26 Apr 2021
Two recent decisions have highlighted the heavy levels of fines that the courts will impose for fatalities arising out of breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. In one case Peter Coleman (54) died after becoming trapped underneath a refuse collection vehicle in 2014. The court heard…
Regulatory
26 Apr 2021
A school has been fined after a member of public tripped over a retaining wall and sustained a fatal head injury. Peterborough Magistrates' Court heard how on 17 February 2017, a family member attended The Leys & St Faith's Foundation School in Cambridge (an independent school) to watch…
Regulatory
22 Apr 2021
Notwithstanding that a principal contractor may not directly employ the injured employee, they can still be found to be in breach of their s2 and s3 duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 if they fail to review the sub contractor's risk assessments prior to the start of works or check…
Regulatory
25 Mar 2021
Drayton Manor Park Ltd has been sentenced following the tragic death of a schoolgirl on its Splash Canyon water ride in 2017. This is another high profile prosecution of a theme park, following the Lightwater Valley one that we reported on in our January 2021 E News. ( Follow this link to read our…
Regulatory
