Protecting Workers and Your Business at Heights
A building maintenance company has been fined £20,000 for their lapse in competent management of work carried out on a roof and gutters in Wolverhampton, resulting...
Read Full ArticleThe owner of a Holmfirth business park has been fined after a local worker fractured an ankle in a fall from a ladder while carrying out work in disused premises nearby.
The 68-year-old maintenance worker had been asked by Bridge Mills Ltd to remove several heat exchange units from the roof space in a former machine shop in Huddersfield Road.
He was working from the ladder, being held by a cleaner, at various heights of around 4m-5m when the ladder was knocked from the cleaner’s hands. He realised he was falling and jumped clear, rolling over to protect himself as best he could.
Bridge Mills Ltd, which owns and manages the Bridge Mill site in Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth, was prosecuted at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive HSE).
The court was told HSE found several failings:
The company was fined £7,000 and ordered to pay £1,355 in costs after admitting breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Article written by Mike Gannon | Published 10 January 2014
A building maintenance company has been fined £20,000 for their lapse in competent management of work carried out on a roof and gutters in Wolverhampton, resulting...
Read Full ArticleMore FM responsibilities are being carried out as isolated activities in order to comply with social distancing guidelines. What tools are available to protect lone...
Read Full ArticleFlybe, the airline company, was sentenced on 4 February 2020 for the unsafe operation of a passenger lift. Meanwhile, a number of other firms have found themselves...
Read Full ArticleA company providing a range of airline ground support services has been fined after an employee fell from a height of more than two metres - suffering fractures and a...
Read Full ArticleJust before Christmas, a chemical company (LMA Services Ltd) was sentenced for breaches that led to a fire. Meanwhile, a fall from height has cost Sir Robert McAlpine...
Read Full ArticleAn employee inspecting a steam leak at height fell to the ground when the ladder he was on failed. The employee of Vertellus Specialties UK fell two metres and suffered a...
Read Full ArticleA director of a construction has seen his company (along with two others) fined when he was blown off an unsafe roof. The three firms, Bowmer and Kirkland,...
Read Full ArticleLanes Group PLC have been fined £500,000, with £9,896.19 costs, after pleading guilty to one offence under the Work at Height Regulations 2005. Westminster...
Read Full ArticleJuly 3 saw the HSE release their annual provisional workplace fatality figures for 2018/19. 147 workers died between April 2018 and March 2019 (a rate of 0.45 per...
Read Full ArticleA food processing company with sites in Yorkshire and the Midlands has been fined over £1.8m after two workers were injured in a fall through a rooflight at the...
Read Full Article