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Case where Employee fined for H&S Breaches

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Case where Employee fined for H&S Breaches

Post by Safetyrail »

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a case where a general employee with management responsiblites has been prosecuted for health and safety breaches.

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Re: Case where Employee fined for H&S Breaches

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A general employee with management responsibilities would I guess be a supervisor or junior manager.

I can think of several instances in the H&S press where the supervisor has been prosecuted for instruction an untrained person to use a forklift truck resulting in a fatality.
There was a case last year where the maintenance supervisor of a factory was prosecuted because lockouts on guards were bypassed which lead to a fatality.

I don't have links to these, but if you go to http://www.hse.gov.uk/prosecutions" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you can search prosecutions by HASWA section, so search on sections 7 and 37 to find these prosecutions.
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Re: Case where Employee fined for H&S Breaches

Post by Seand »

Excellent link that Kev....especially the search function :-)

Thanks

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