Recent Prosecutions
It is essential to have robust Health and Safety procedures in place to protect your business, workforce, and yourself from accidents, especially in the current harsh economic climate.
CQMS Ltd urges all employers to review their arrangements, procedures, supervision, and employee competency to ensure they are taking all reasonable steps to prevent workplace injuries and dangerous occurrences.
The cases mentioned below are taken from the press and serve as a stark reminder of what can happen when the arrangements are inadequate.
15th August 2022
A plumber who was suspected of having undertaken dangerous gas work while unqualified to do so, was fined for failing to answer questions put to him […]
15th August 2022
A bus company has been fined £380,000 after one of its employees was crushed between a reversing bus and a stationary vehicle. The employee of Stagecoach […]
15th August 2022
A carpentry and joinery company has been fined after a man working unsecured on the forks of a fork-lift truck fell 3.5 metres to the ground. […]
15th August 2022
A civil engineering construction company has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site. Seven-year-old […]
4th August 2022
A mining company has been fined after two electricians suffered severe burns in separate incidents. The owners of mining company Boulby Mine in Saltburn-by-the-Sea were fined […]
4th August 2022
Technology firm Dyson has been fined £1.2m after an employee sustained head and chest injuries when he was struck by a 1.5 tonne milling machine. The […]
26th July 2022
The grieving uncle of a four-year-old boy killed on a farm has urged everyone in agriculture to do more to keep children safe. Brian Nutter was […]
26th July 2022
A retail company and an electrical contracting company have been fined after an electrician suffered serious burns to 15 per cent of his body when he […]
26th July 2022
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the death of a 27-year-old worker at a steelworks in Scunthorpe. The incident happened on Saturday 16 July […]
26th July 2022
A building owner has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after an employee was left paralysed when a hoist platform he was working from plummeted […]
20th July 2022
A fire service has been prosecuted after two of its firefighters received serious head injuries – with one paralysed from the chest down – after a […]
13th July 2022
A Health Board has been fined following the death of a vulnerable patient who left a hospital ward unnoticed through an unsecured door. The Health and […]