Health and Safety

A Stockport construction company has been prosecuted after failing to ensure suitable welfare facilities were provided for workers on site. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard that R & S Builders (Mcr) Ltd had been issued with multiple Improvement Notices, following an inspection by a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector at the company’s site at Great …

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A Plymouth-based furniture company has been sentenced for failing to have employers’ liability compulsory insurance (ELCI) the day an employee was injured. Pinexpress flouted repeated requests for documentation from representatives of an employee who was accidentally cut as he was unpacking furniture delivered to a customer. Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard that after the incident on …

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Kitchen worktop manufacturing company, The Solid Surface Shop UK Ltd was sentenced for non-compliance of Improvement Notices and failure to effectively manage health and safety. Sheffield Magistrates’ Court heard that, during an inspection in March 2016, it was found that there was a poor standard of health and safety management including significant accumulations of dust …

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Former manufacturing company Betafence Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after worker was crushed by a wire drawing roller. Sheffield Magistrates’ court heard how on 8 February 2017, the worker was reconfiguring some wire drawing equipment which had previously been used to apply a zinc coating to wire at a site on Shepcote Lane in …

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A Cardiff-based health board and the director of a maintenance company have today been sentenced after a worker fell from height, suffering life-changing injuries. Cardiff Crown Court heard how, on 22 September 2016, Christopher Rees, employed by W D Rees Maintenance Ltd, was undertaking window cleaning at the Women’s Services Unit of the University Hospital …

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