Law and Press

Health and Safety Legislation

The continually changing and evolving health & safety legislation requires constant and vigilant monitoring to ensure that all advice and recommendations to clients are current and up to date. We have done our best to create a list of legislation that applies to health and safety. Use this for your reference and if you have an issue that you feel we haven't covered, don't hesitate to contact us.

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Examples from the press

These examples taken from the British press demonstrate why complying with health and safety legislation is important, and as to why some of these assessments are a legal requirement.

COSHH
Failure to provide the correct PPE to a worker which resulted in a plumbers' PPE being dissolved by acid results in a fine of £5,000 plus £2,965 costs. (Trafford)

Falling objects 
A 15-metre steel girder fell and narrowly missed a worker resulted in an £8,000 fine plus £7,529 costs. The company ignored their legal requirements under the lifting operations to properly plan and conduct the procedure. (Newcastle)

Asbestos 
Retail giant fined £36,000 for allowing workers to be exposed to asbestos. (Liverpool)

Legionella
Leisure company fined £120,000 after pleading guilty for failure to control bacteria in its water systems that resulted in the death of a guest who contracted Legionnaires' disease. (Dundee)

Fall from height
‘Fundamentally unsafe’ work at height and failure to risk assess the procedures results in a fine of £20,000 plus £4,765 costs and £5,000 compensation to the injured worker. (Skegness)

Confined space
A Buckinghamshire construction company fined £5,000 after a worker died when a trench he was working in collapsed. The worker died, and the fine was reduced due to the financial position of the company. (Aylesbury)
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