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.  March 2011 Trafford.

 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 Legionaires disease. April 2011 Dundee.

ASBESTOS

Retail giant fined £36,000  for allowing workers to be exposed to asbestos.  March 2011 Liverpool.

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.  March 2011 Skegness.

FALLING OBJECTS

A 15 metre steel girder fell and narrowly missed a worker resulted in a £8,000 fine plus £7,529 costs.  The company ignored their legal requirements under the lifting operations to properly plan & conduct the procedure.  February 2011 Newcastle.

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.  February 2011 Aylesbury.

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