Hse release summary of prosecutions

The Health and Safety Executive releases summary of prosecutions related to maintenance in November 2010

Every month HSE releases a summary of prosecutions related to maintenance throughout Great Britain. In the month of November 2010, 35 companies or individuals were found guilty and fined as a result of being prosecuted by HSE. Three of these prosecutions were related to maintenance activities.

One involved a handyman falling through a factory roof light. He had been sent onto the roof to repair a leak. The second involved a 17 year old apprentice who received head injuries when avoiding being hit by the sudden movement of part of a press that had not been isolated. The third involved a builder being prosecuted for unsafe work on a restaurant roof, replacing broken roof tiles.

In addition to these three maintenance prosecutions, HSE also took two prosecutions in circumstances where production staff were injured trying to free blockages. In one a worker at a recycling company was overcome by nitrogen gas having climbed into a chute to free a fridge, and in a second a food factory worker who had accessing a conveyor belt through an interlocked door was injured when a fellow worker closed the door and restarted the machine.

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Item sourced from http://www.hse.gov.uk/safemaintenance/experience.htm