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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School fined as teacher knocked unconscious after ladder fall

working at heights accident

A girls’ school has been fined for breaching work at height regulations after a teacher fell from a stepladder and was left unconscious. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that on 9 May 2016 a teacher was conducting rigging and adjustments to spotlights and cabling in the school drama studio when he fell from …

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