A tour bus operator, The Original London Sightseeing Tour Limited has been fined after a mechanical engineer suffered serious injuries while working underneath one of its vehicles. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the 58-year-old employee was working underneath the vehicle at a bus depot while reseating an airbag on one of the …
[0 comments] Read and discussIs your business PUWER safe?
Looking through the HSE prosecution news, it strikes us how many prosecutions are successfully taken by the HSE for failures to provide safe work equipment and systems of work. Only this last 2-3 weeks has seen: An international manufacturer in court after a worker lost 3 fingers in a machine due …
[0 comments] Read and discussThornton’s fined for poor health and safety standards
The high street chocolate chain, Thornton’s, was fined £20,000 + £7,600 costs following an incident where a worker broke her finger while operating a wrapping machine. The lady had been working at the company’s Somercotes plant on a foil wrapping machine, where chocolates were wrapped in foil and dispensed down …
[0 comments] Read and discussWhy are long term Health & Safety fixes more cost effective?
We find that today’s cost conscious business environment leads too many businesses to a short term focus when it comes to health & safety fixes. Take the example on the HSE website this month where a man has lost part of 3 fingers in a machine and his company was fined …
[0 comments] Read and discussDo machines need guards?
We ask this question to those that use or supervise the use of machinery because in our experience many machine operators think not. We often are told that operator experience and skill is what will keep them safe from injury. But on further questioning they mainly fail to understand the …
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