LONDON ZOO SAFETY BREACH: KEEPER SUFFERED NECK INJURY IN FAULTY STEPLADDER FALL

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A London Zoo safety breach saw a keeper, who was cleaning out a hawk aviary, fall off a faulty step ladder that was wrongly retrieved from a skip. Angelina Lawson suffered neck injuries in the accident while removing droppings from a shelf under the birds’ perches. According to reports, the step ladder …

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A SOLE DIRECTOR HAS BEEN THREATENED WITH PRISON AFTER A JOINT OPERATION UNCOVERED A SERIES OF SAFETY AND HEALTH FRAUD OFFENCES

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Barrie John Henry Birch was sentenced to 18 months’ jail, suspended for two years, and disqualified from being a company director for five years after his firm, BBS Improvements, carried out unsafe and unnecessary building work. Workers were put at risk because there was no scaffolding. The fraudulent activity was …

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£1M FINE AS POUNDSTRETCHER FOUND IN BREACH OF HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION

Breaches to health and safety legislation at three Poundstretcher stores in Newbury, Newhaven and Swindon have resulted in the retail chain being hit with a £1m fine. The chain pleaded guilty to a total of 24 counts of breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following inspections …

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HOWDENS LANDS £1.2MILLION FINE FOR OVERLOADED FORKLIFT FATALITY

The UK’s largest manufacturer and supplier of fitted kitchens has been fined £1.2m over the fatal crushing of a delivery driver in Cumbria. Howdens Joinery was prosecuted at Carlisle Crown Court after it pleaded guilty to breaching ss 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act. It …

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TIP-OFF LEADS TO DEVELOPER’S £200K FINE FOR CDM BREACHES

The owner of a block of flats has been handed a £200,000 fine after allowing work on an unsafe site to restart, even though enforcement notices had been served by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told on 30 August that a member of the public …

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BEVERAGE GAS SUPPLIER FINED £40K OVER CYLINDER EXPLOSION

A supplier of food grade CO2 and CO2/nitrogen mixes to restaurants and pubs in the north of England has shortened its cylinder inspection cycle by half after an employee was injured in an explosion. J & R Gases employee Luke Hawthorn, 30, was at the company’s depot in Nelson, Lancashire, filling …

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