Category - Health and Safety

Recently we have seen a rise in prosecutions for fire safety breaches with prison sentences being issued on a more frequent basis. Here, we focus on a recent prosecution involving a curry house. Bristol based, Bengal Raj restaurant had been found guilty of breaking numerous fire safety laws. Zamshed Alam, restaurant owner had been jailed for 6 …

Bristol Crown Court fined Concrete Fabrications Ltd, Bristol £100,000 with costs after an employee lost his arm whilst conducting planned maintenance to a misaligned conveyor belt on 18 May 2015. The unnamed employee had to adjust tensioning rods which were located inside the machine’s guards, in close proximity to the conveyor belt and rotating tail …

St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, pleaded guilty to breaching Health and Safety law after a man died and a worker suffered life changing effects after contracting legionnaire’s disease at the premises in 2012. Exposure to the legionnaire’s disease resulted in the member of staff being in a coma for 18 days before making a recovery. The …

When we think of bouncy castles, we think of children laughing and having fun. These seemingly harmless inflated structures do not make us worry about possible health and safety issues, after all what harm can a colourful piece of rubber filled with air cause? However, in recent news, incidents involving bouncy castles have resulted in the death …

Summertime brings the warm weather, and with that comes an increase in taking the kitchen outdoors by way of barbecues. Although fun, and tasty, barbeques present a very real fire risk and caution should be taken both whilst cooking and during the disposal after the event. Kent fire service has recently reported, an increase in …

In what can only be described as a flagrant breach of law, a site manager was sentenced to over 3 year’s jail time. On 24 January 2015 Tasadaq Ur-Rehman was working on a site in Leicester, when he fell through a skylight aperture in a first floor roof and sustained serious head injuries, which ultimately …

SPL International Ltd, a home brewing kit manufacturer has been fined after an employee’s right hand was severed while cleaning a blending machine. The company was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following an incident on 21 October 2014. On the day of the incident the employee was asked by his supervisor to …

Care homes have been in the news recently with two preventable fatalities occuring. The first case involves a care home based in Middlesex. The premise was fined £100,000 plus £50,000 costs for an incident occurring in 2011. An elderly resident of a Surrey home was receiving care from two employees of European Healthcare Group Plc. The resident died …

Whilst it is true that you are never very far away from a rodent,  the implication of a rodent infestation in your premises could have catastrophe consequences for all concerned. Shaafiek Christian, from the CSC Helpdesk looks at two recent cases in further detail. In the first case, The Good Fortune Restaurant in Portsmouth was …

Hereford based, TRP Polymer Solutions has been fined £40,000 after a worker contracted allergic contact dermatitis Hereford Magistrates’ Court heard how the sensitising ingredients in the rubber components caused the skin disease to occur. TRP Polymer Solutions Ltd. pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and Regulations …